Different color guide on pinkish background color

When you have an object with a fill that's very close to the pink color of the guide, it's hard to see the value of the guide

Is it possible for the guide color to change when the background color of the object is almost the same color?

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Dartoumi shared this idea · October 26, 2017 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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Josh Crandall commented · April 30, 2021 11:06 · Flag as inappropriate

3 1/2 year old request. This custom setting is still needed.

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Anonymous commented · April 30, 2021 11:05 · Flag as inappropriate

Choosing a custom color or having a colored background on the tiny numbers for more contrast would help with this immensely. I really struggle with these guides on projects, constantly squinting or changing the colors of something just to read the spacing is a pain.

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Joseph Silva commented · April 02, 2021 11:00 · Flag as inappropriate

I struggle with reading the smart guides every day, because of the colors used in the product I work on. The numbers are also super small. It would be ideal if we could choose a custom color for the smart guides and choose a larger size for the number labels. Thanks!

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Anonymous commented · March 12, 2021 02:03 · Flag as inappropriate

Is this still not fixed? I need to change the colour of the elements to be able to see the distance between them.

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Jeffrey F. commented · October 27, 2020 06:21 · Flag as inappropriate

wait this is a long time issue? this is not resolved yet?

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Lazy Bear commented · May 17, 2019 16:36 · Flag as inappropriate

When does Adobe fix it? It's real problem to me.

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Lazy Bear commented · May 17, 2019 16:34 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello! It's a real problem. When does Adobe fix it?

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Anonymous commented · March 26, 2019 01:32 · Flag as inappropriate

it bother me too. i recommend add a box to the number, so we can see the value no matter what color the bg object is

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Anonymous commented · January 10, 2019 09:37 · Flag as inappropriate

@AdobeXD Hi Team,
Xd is an amazing designing tool. In some scenarios due to contrasting colour in the background design it is very difficult to notice the Pixel distance(number & Guideline) Pink colour even at maximum of 6400%. I hope this would be rectified which help. Thanks.

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Raquel commented · October 17, 2018 07:45 · Flag as inappropriate

I agree - we should be able to configure the guide colors just like we do in any other Adobe app. I am having the same contrast issues Dartoumi reported and I am not even using magenta in my design!

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Bernie commented · October 09, 2018 08:02 · Flag as inappropriate

being able to configure the guide color so that it doesnt match a critical brand color would be perfect.

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Alex commented · July 13, 2018 03:18 · Flag as inappropriate

When you have an object with a fill that's close to the color of the guide, it's hard to see the value of the guide.

In Photoshop it's implemented much better.

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