Prevent EditorWindow uielements from being tinted dark during play mode

Is it possible to avoid my uielements being tinted in a darker color when entering play mode? I realize that this is a global Unity setting to tint all windows except for the game view, but I noticed that I really don't want this in the case of a logging or debug inspector window. For example, the builtin console window also doesn't tint. The darker color makes reading text a lot more difficult in play mode.

 

I've tested on Unity 2019.3.0 and 2019.3.1 with the following results:



In the gif, I toggle between edit and play mode. On the left we can see the Unity console. When entering play mode, the background is tinted slightly, but the text labels are still very much readable and bright. On the right is my custom console window which uses UIElements with mostly default styling. When entering play mode, the UIElements label text color is tinted much darker towards a gray that makes it harder to read. I would expect that by default the styling should be identical, but I also think that I prefer the Unity console window style, since it remains readable in play mode.

 

So I found that the tint is in fact applied to everything. However, I still feels like the Unity default console either changes the label color when entering play mode to a slightly more white color, or the new default text color is slightly too dark (on the right). It's just that in edit mode both look pretty much the same and are readable, but with tint applied my window on the right has low contrast and is difficult to read.



If I manually set the label style color to white, it's much better in play mode, but in edit mode, labels shouldn't be too bright.


But even white pure white it looks as if my UIElements labels on the right are slightly darker than the IMGUI labels on the left.

 

Hi, sorry to resurrect this thread. Did you ever find a solution for this? It seems tint is applied twice or thrice to text in UITK, compared to IMGUI. I find it really uncomfortable sometimes. Thanks for posting about it.

 

There was no solution to exclude any window from the tint. I assume the tinting and low contrast is still the same, but I haven’t checked the newest Unity versions. Sorry! We just live with it.

 

I've submitted case 1310581. The issue is still visible in Unity 2020.2.1f1 and previous versions. In the report, I show that there's a noticeable difference between the console window and custom windows in edit vs play mode like this:



I'd like for my editor windows to look like the builtin console window, because I want them to be readable in play mode and I believe this should be handled by the builtin styles, but apparently there are differences.

 

Having similar issues. You say that the label is submitted with 196/255, that's the default label color, is there a reason why this is not 210/255 then as default? Or is the console text color brighter than the default editor text color?

 

You can avoid the dark tint by selecting white as "Playmode tint" in Edit/Preferences/Colors/General/Playmode tint
I personally prefere a light red such as #FFDADB