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July 9, 2024
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Tab and Nav bar is now white?

  • July 9, 2024
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the transparent menu bar is really unreable in light mode, plz return back to black

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Best answer by djv

Hey All, thank you for your patience and understanding!

The updated panels were intended to be tied to UI3. We’re still rolling this out slowly to the community, but in the interim, we’ve shipped a fix to ensure that you don’t see a mixed UI2/UI3 experience.

If you’re still seeing the mis-matched tab colors, please refresh and let us know if you continue to run into any further issues.

43 replies

Bauke_Schildt
Active Member
July 10, 2024

You may have to clear your cache (Which will also clear your history and reset some of your settings, so … your choice.)

July 10, 2024

+1 please change it back, it’s super distracting and busy!

KevinClio
July 10, 2024

At least meet AA contrast guidelines… 😅

Ron_Frank
Active Member
July 10, 2024

I know this will be unpopular, but in addition to disliking dark mode settings (I know, I know) I have always had a very strong dislike of Figma’s black frame and tabs — I use the desktop “application” on Mac OS. So I welcome the new tabs but wish the following were also changed:

  1. Increase the contrast of the font within the tabs — like, make it nearly black.
  2. Make the frame that is still black (the area around the tools, etc.) also light gray.
  3. Give users the option — you know, like Adobe does?

Of course, no post of mine would be complete without a mention of customizable keyboard shortcuts, which should trump this relatively insignificant UI change. But that of course is a topic for another extremely longstanding thread.

July 10, 2024

Temporary solution

1 Desctop APP — Help — Troubleshooting — Toggle Tab Bar Dev Tool

2 In Elements TAB — copy line with class UI3 etc

3 Ask GPT chat how to change color of the Tab bar in Figma to UI2 in context of line from Elements tab

4 Chat gives you scrip that you need to put in Console

5 After that, the same way to change color of Tabs on Tab bar

Time spend — 3 min

It works until restart the app

But for me it is ok cause I restart it not often

djv
Figmate
djvAnswer
Community Support
July 10, 2024

Hey All, thank you for your patience and understanding!

The updated panels were intended to be tied to UI3. We’re still rolling this out slowly to the community, but in the interim, we’ve shipped a fix to ensure that you don’t see a mixed UI2/UI3 experience.

If you’re still seeing the mis-matched tab colors, please refresh and let us know if you continue to run into any further issues.

July 10, 2024

not ugly. But this white guy is just yelling at me. 🤣

Julia_Edbrooke
July 11, 2024

For real. Not good 🫠

July 13, 2024

Damn, The new version not only has strange interactions, but also has a very long path for exporting files. It is recommended that your product manager resign as the previous version did not consider user experience at all

August 5, 2024

Hey, Dvaliao!
Well the white screaming bar is back and screaming at me again, and there is no option in the settings to revert back to the previous UI. What’s your advice on what to do?