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Setting Global Font Color in RISE
I apologize if I missed any existing posts on this topic.
I am wondering if there is a way to set font color globally in RISE for paragraph text. It seems to default to a grey color, which isn't enough contrast for us.
To avoid the laborious task of having to manually change that for each text block, is there a way to designate this to apply globally?
I only see the option in Theme settings to set the contrast color and font. Not seeing anywhere you can designate the color for paragraph text.
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Wow, this is still an issue? How the default text not be black? Accessibility? Hello?
Most repetitive thing I do, change grey to black, a pain.
100% agreed!!!
Wanted to add my voice to this. I'm unsure why this wasn't implemented when the new Themes section was worked on? Accessibility-wise it's a headache for us. As soon as you place the grey text on any colour other than pale grey or white, the colour contrast fails the standards, and constantly copying /pasting is a slow work around.
Hope things change soon.
I was surprised when I searched that this was the answer I found to changing the default font color for my theme. I thought I was missing something. With the focus on accessibility, I shouldn't have to create template text blocks to get black font... And certainly not going to go in and change each block manually. Let's get this done, Articulate. Thanks!
+1 vote from me.
I love a nice clean aesthetic (and love the Rise templates for that reason), but I feel ridiculous making a course on accessibility while the course itself is barely accessible.
One work around that I tried (and it seems to work) - after exporting the Rise course for web or LMS - open the main.bundle css file with a text editor and do a find replace for default text color hex code #313537 and replace with #000000 and save. (for LMS would have to re-zip the files)
+1!
Amazing that this is still an issue.
So if the default color is grey, and that seems to be an issue with a lot of folks (myself included - I mean, who actually *wants* grey font?), why not just change the default to black? This is a HUGE pain in the a**, as having to change the color on every bit of text - headings, paragraphs, processes, tabs, etc., is a massive waste of time. Please, for the love of Rudy and all that is holy, PLEASE update this.
As recommended by Tom Kuhlmann a long time ago, we created a Block Template for every block type that we regularly use.
Every Block Template was formatted for style (bold, italic, color, size, etc.) before saving.
Now when we build our courses, 95% of the time we create the course entirely from the Block Template library.
So we don't have to change the color or any other formatting options every time we add a new block.
We share the Block Templates with our entire team and it ensures formatting consistency no matter which team member creates the course.
It is truly ridiculous. Higher colour contrast is basic accessibility!
