Change foreground/background colour independently from OS dark/light mode

[ololobus]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Now foreground colour is black for light theme and white for dark by default. However, if one have dark wallpaper and transparent menu bar than iGlance menu items are barely visible in light mode. See screenshot for better understanding.

Describe the solution you'd like

I propose an option to allow manual changing of foreground colour (e.g. CPU temp) and/or background colour, so one was able to adjust them for a better visibility.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I cannot find any iGlance settings that can solve this issue right now. In the Big Sur one can enable Accessibility > Display > Reduce motion, which will make menu bar non-transparent. However, it also makes Dock non-transparent and it looks really ugly in this mode :(

Additional context

If you point me to a proper parts of the source code, I can try to submit a PR. It shouldn't be so difficult at a first glance.

[frakman1]

Just adding to this.
I am on High Sierra and just installed iGlance and the font is unreadable on a dark themed menubar:

[frakman1]

This is a bug on High Sierra because when I migrated to Mojave on a new laptop in Dark mode, it works correctly.

[ivanivanusic]

I have the same issue.

[spdrman]

Same issue on BigSur with dark mode text being black on black

[spirozh]

my other icons in the status bar are white and iGlance is black, it's a bit jarring... i love the app but would like better integration (even if i had to manually configure it)

[hamiltonca]

A suggestion. This worked for me (in the interim) running Big Sur
System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce Transparency

[AntonioParroni]

I also have this exact issue on High Sierra 10.13.6

Please, your program really looks so cool. And we want to use it!

[matt-hammond-001]

I have a similar issue on Big Sur with a dynamic desktop background. I'm using light theme mode. During evening/night when the desktop changes to a dark picture, the other text and icons on the menu bar automatically switch from black to white colour, but iGlance does not.

[haquetarif]

Hi, Thanks for such an amazing app.

I'm using Mac Big Sur 11.3 and prefer night mode for my eye condition.

You can see all my other menu bar items are black the iglance items are white.

Please update it so it matches the color of the other menu bar items.

Wish you all the best.

[Symyon]

Same here, just started using it for a day or two. I'm pretty sure color was the same as the other icons at the beginning Yesterday, I've restarted Mac Today and see now that iGlance icons are opposite to what the others are. If I switch themes it switches from black to white, but so do the other ones so you get again an opposite color from all the other icons.

[jakub-id]

Same issue here. The icons are not readable: