Why are all the default text settings light gray?
Light gray does not contrast with anything! Against a light background, you can’t read it. Against a dark background, you can’t read it.
Why is Tahoma (and sometimes Times Roman) the default? Make it Arial … make it darkest black … and make it bold.
While I love all the capabilities of this software, I spend so much time monkeying around with the appearance because all the default settings are very lame. And changing those settings to an acceptable default is a very time consuming process that does not carry over from project to project. It would take a project budget just to try and get the default settings of this software acceptable, due to the non-intuitive and time intensive process it takes to adjust the object settings, which is not an option on time/budget constrained projects.
Tags: caption text • fonts • format_text • question • web safe fonts