Bug 170103 - Colour scaled conditional formatting creates illegible fonts in darkmode on particular background colours
Summary: Colour scaled conditional formatting creates illegible fonts in darkmode on p...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.4.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: QA:needsComment
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Reported: 2025-12-23 16:21 UTC by da_jimsta_55
Modified: 2026-01-07 03:11 UTC (History)
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Darkmode colours (101.66 KB, image/png)
2025-12-23 16:23 UTC, da_jimsta_55
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LightMode (103.01 KB, image/png)
2025-12-23 16:28 UTC, da_jimsta_55
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Description da_jimsta_55 2025-12-23 16:21:56 UTC
Description:
With the the dark mode active the conditional formatting using the colour scale option will create a hard white font regardless of colour background.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure application is in Dark Mode (Tools -> Options LibreOffice -> Appearance -> Dark)
2. Create a list of data in a column (ie 1-20)
3. Select this data
4. Press the conditional format icon on the toolbar
5. Choose Colour Scale
6. Press OK (to accept default settings)
7. Done

Actual Results:
A list with the numbers 1-20 in white text with cell background colours ranging from red through yellow to green.

Expected Results:
Similar to above, however there should be black text on light colours (ie yellow) or as needed.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This behaviour differs from a cell manually formatted with those background colours and using the automatic font colour. 

Additionally any links to the wiki such as ones on this bug reporting form
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Components/Spreadsheet/Help
are serving Error 403 forbidden.

Version: 25.8.4.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 290daaa01b999472f0c7a3890eb6a550fd74c6df
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-AU (en_AU); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 da_jimsta_55 2025-12-23 16:23:52 UTC
Created attachment 204771 [details]
Darkmode colours
Comment 2 da_jimsta_55 2025-12-23 16:28:22 UTC
Created attachment 204772 [details]
LightMode