Horizon 4.11 issues with colours

Technical Q&A
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I have just discovered the in the latest Horizon update, the blocks no longer use the colour schemes and have been changed so that all the text is one colour. This means lots of pages have text that can’t be read when it is over the top of images for an appropriate colour scheme has been chosen. I am told that there is a default option in the blocks to select an individual colour but now I have to do this for every piece of text on my website. For example, on a product page, every line of text in each block needs to be selected and and every collection page because I use templates and the default option doesn’t change the text.

I am concerned because having text that people can’t read can harm seo and people using the store.

I would urge everyone who has updated to complain so that a fix is made as I have been told there is no intention to revert this back to the original format.

Does anyone have a quick fix for this issue? I have changed my default colour to white and I think I have found all the places where this causes a problem on a white background but every piece of other text appears to default to a solid black so I need to either change my page background colours or change every block to a charcoal black so it complies with the colour contrast rules. This will take hours to do.

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I concur.

Look like yet another “negative improvement”.

It’s also not quite clear whether this is the way to go and color schemes are deprecated, or theme can use both or color schemes only:

Color system best practices says:

Color palettes in Themes - Shopify developer changelog however says it different:

Color schemes continue to work, so existing themes don’t need to change, and color palettes aren’t required for new themes or Theme Store submissions. We’re focusing future development on palettes because they give merchants a better editing experience, so we recommend them when building new themes.

The problem, as already described by another developer here:

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Hi Tim, I have also found that the colours are resetting and I cannot see why this is happening. I changed all my colours to the correct ones and today some of the colours appear to have gone back to default. I am very upset by the bugs in Horizon and feel misled by Shopify support who told me that this was the new version of Dawn but now say that Horizon is not a Shopify store but a third party one and they are offering poor support

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Hey @CZS

hope you’re doing well!

That’s a frustrating change. A global setting to inherit the theme’s color scheme would have avoided this. Until Shopify addresses it, custom CSS may be the quickest workaround instead of manually updating every block