True, true, true. You should change the accent colors, not the entire background. No other film editing company has gone that way in case of making dark mode unusable. Even DaVinci Resolve had the 'blue' background option by default, but let user change to the saturation neutral one.

this red tint is terrible for video editing. it interferes with our eyes ability to discern color. it makes it feel like my monitor is broken. gives me a headache. i hate it. please descript, stop trying to fix what isnt broken. is this what all the price increases have been funding??

Guys, really - just bring back dark mode. What is this? The text appears blurry to my eyes with the color scheme.

This color really sucks for a video editing app. Video can have any kind of colors in the video. Do I really need to be getting distracted by the color conflict between my video and the app's color?

I've been using the app for many hours this week and it's despite the color change. Please don't take my usage or the usage of your users as enjoying or accepting this change.

Please give me option to change back to gray. Or as soon as there is any alternative that can do what descript can do, I will switch.

I HATE this change. PLEASE, please change it back or allow me to customize.

I'm an artist working in accessibility and advocacy spaces. I urge the DeScript team to realize how for every vocal complaint there are often an exponent of people who won't take the time to reach out who will instead simply stop interacting with the platform.

I came here to request a color change setting in Preferences, too, because people with synesthesia are very highly represented in audio spaces. I have polymodal synesthesia and while it may sound dramatic, with synesthesia (https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-year-history-of-synesthesia/) the red overlay is about as close to torture as a person can get inside an application. I definitely cannot spend as much time in the app now: I'll have to start looking for alternatives if they don't give us a Preferences setting soon.

We -need- to make workspaces accessible and usable for everyone - not just a symbolic artistic flourish which isn't considered pragmatically. I'm saying this as an artist, myself. A color like red has to be a setting which can be changed, not a default.

Agreed. Changing your brand's color scheme from blue to this ugly red/purple is one (bad) business decision, but changing the darkmode to it as well is unforgivable. I literally can't do my job because I can't look at the screen without my eyes hurting. WTF are you guys thinking? Giving you a week to revert while I start looking for alternative editing platforms.

Jeremy Andrew Davis I was just going to bring that up about how this color scheme is not ADA compliant. I know with how long I have to stare at throughout the day it gives me a headache as well. Not to mention how difficult it is to see the color on color borders and things in the UI.

Agreed. As a disability and accessibility consultant, this color change, without the option to customize it, is a major accessibility issue. Descript has a history of inaccessibility and ignoring feedback to address the issues. The red colors give me a headache now too - so much so that I immediately signed up for a Riverside trial because it makes the app unusable.

Agreed! Whoever thought mauve would be pleasing to look at... well, it's not. It's gross! And even though I have the settings set to dark mode and dark mode does not mean mauve.