Anyone agree with me on this (UI's)?

[t3hl33td4rg0n]

The MS Office UI is just god awful. I can't stand the super white everything. Most major productivity apps are going in the right direction and allowing a dark and less distracting UI to allow you to focus whatever content you're producing.

I took a luxmeter app and measured how much my monitor is outputting to the phone, with lights off and monitor brightness all the way down.

Start Screen: 12 lux
Adobe Premiere (with project loaded): 16 lux
MS Word: 48 lux

OSHA recommends an office environment to be between 20-50 lux. Word is already bordering that in a dark room! It's killer on the eyes IMO.

What do you guys think?

 

[Sazar]

Have you considered changing the theme? Default is white, but you can also change to light or dark gray.

https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...646-9cf0-7c91d1284da6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Problem solved.

 

[guest]

Problem solved.

Dark Gray looks like light Gray to me. They can still do much better.

 

[t3hl33td4rg0n]

Have you considered changing the theme? Default is white, but you can also change to light or dark gray.

https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...646-9cf0-7c91d1284da6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Problem solved.

MSs version of dark grey is is almost white.

If you split the RGB greyscale spectrum into 5 parts like so...

Here is Microsoft's version of "Dark Gray".

Titlebar: 223
Ribbon: 243 (not far from white)
Page Work Area Background Average: 210

Microsoft Dark Gray UI theme

If you take photoshops brightest UI setting, you get 223, darkest 52.


Problem not solved.

 

[Sazar]

For what it's worth, the previews of 2015/2016 indicate a darker theme, so there's that.

 

[t3hl33td4rg0n]

For what it's worth, the previews of 2015/2016 indicate a darker theme, so there's that.

That's good news!

Now we just need that for MSO 2013