I'm seeing this on both of my Macs, running the latest version of Monterey and Catalina. Whatever happened to a good clean, reasonably transparent yellow? Does Adobe own that patent or something?
I really like how light and easy Preview is, and prefer to use Apple Apps whenever possible, but is there a way to bring back YELLOW?
Much obliged if anyone else had found a solution to the orange problem?
Mick
You cannot change that unfortunate highlight color as it has been this way for years. Alternatively, the current Adobe Acrobat Reader DC allows one to change the highlight color to anything you want (e.g. vivid yellow).
You can send the macOS product team feedback, but apparently, they have been unwilling to alter this color.
That is so WHACKED! Why would they not have THE most common highlight color? Strange I haven't noticed. One would think that Apple would be more than happy to put Acrobat on the rails here and make Preview a fast, lightweight, easy-to-use PDF document editor. Does anyone know why Apple would be "unwilling" to offer yellow or allow users to add it? And why call orange "yellow?"
I hope that Apple will improve the editing tools to make them a bit more user-friendly too. It seems to take me ages to remember how to draw on a photo I need to send someone with instructions and I do that about once a week.
But the weird orange addiction and over-saturated "Highlight" colors seem intentionally obtuse. What gives?
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Preview's highlight color "yellow" is orange?
