Default colors for highlighting changed?

[SydneySpangler]

The color options for highlighting appear to have changed to largely dark red, dark green, and purple (no yellow or lighter colors). This seems to defeat the entire purpose of highlighting, as the text can barely be read. Making a custom highlight color is way more effort than it should be for such a simple task and you can never get it to match with previous custom colors. Could Canvas please just restore the old (regular) highlighting colors?

[ThayerMerritt]

I was needing a sanity check as well, we're seeing this on our Canvas instance also

This is what is currently showing

web image search showed examples looking like this, which is more in line with what I'd expect to see:

 

[NoahBoswell]

@SydneySpangler @ThayerMerritt ,

I wanted to confirm that I am too seeing this in our instance. I don't ever recall seeing this change until recently... interesting!

[CelestialDawnA]

I talked with Canvas Support and we think it may be related to Canvas trying to fix this "Default colors in the RCE color picker do not meet contrast requirements" issue. That one was talking about how some of the color options for the text color were too light to be accessible on a white background. The page says they deployed a fix for that on July 2nd (yesterday), so I'm guessing that it inadvertently also made it where the highlight color options were darker by default.

Hopefully the issue will get resolved fairly soon with this community post and the bug submissions bringing it to their attention. Maybe they will make the text/highlight options use separate color palettes since they currently seem to be linked, or maybe they will have a better solution that considers contrast based on whatever colors are selected for the text/highlight.

Until it is fixed, the only option I can see is to manually select a lighter color in the custom color picker.

[ThayerMerritt]

Thanks for your experience as well! This is what our CSM suggested was probably the case.

Hanging tight!

[ReLMacaulay]

We're also experiencing this issue. Below are now the colors for the highlighter—which are way too dark and not accessible for highlighting: