jackson49 wrote:

PhiPhenomenon wrote:

I did some digging around for some recent changes and it seems like this fix ([]) from the scratch-www repo is what you're talking about. Turns out it's to make the buttons more colorblind-friendly by adding borders to the icons. Suppose that's because it's hard to see the icon against the white background for people who are colorblind.

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Yes this is an intended change probably for accessibility reasons.

xz-Blaze wrote:

i see that the love and favorite icons look different now. is that new?

I think it's new. Welcome to scratch 3.1

UI-coder wrote:

xz-Blaze wrote:

i see that the love and favorite icons look different now. is that new?

I think it's new. Welcome to scratch 3.1

This change is likely a prelude to a bigger one that's upcoming.

It's most likely intended for higher contrast, for higher visibility, especially if you're colorblind, as the borders go away when the button is active.

This change was implemented to make it possible for colorblind users to tell the gray love/favorite icons apart from the colored icons. Since now they're outlined when inactive, users don't have to see color to tell if the icons were toggled.

I'm proud to say I was involved in this change, too (I'm the one who suggested it, and another contributor actually made the change).

D-ScratchNinja wrote:

This change was implemented to make it possible for colorblind users to tell the gray love/favorite icons apart from the colored icons. Since now they're outlined when inactive, users don't have to see color to tell if the icons were toggled.

I'm proud to say I was involved in this change, too (I'm the one who suggested it, and another contributor actually made the change).

oh, you suggested it? that is so nice

alexandretherrien wrote:

Maybe it’s to increase contrast? Like the new scratch lab blocks?.

It definitely is.

xz-Blaze wrote:

i see that the love and favorite icons look different now. is that new?

Yeah… I've noticed it too and my account isn't really working properly….

Check out this post - it's explained there