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Highlighted messages not easily distinguished from sender realname

Steps

  1. Connect to core with core-side highlights and real name storage
  2. Open a channel
  3. Receive a normal message from someone with a real name set
  4. Receive a highlighted message from someone with a real name set

Outcome

Normal messages have the real name with faded intensity, visually de-prioritizing it when reading.

However, when highlighted, that visual change goes away, making it (at least for me) easily confused with the message text itself.

Suggestions

In both cases, the real name should be made distinctly less important relative to the nickname and the message itself, e.g. by fading out.

Additional

If the real name is turned to full color text in highlights for contrast/readability, perhaps there's some other way to distinguish it?

This might just be me, so feel free to disregard it.

Example screenshot showing normal and highlighted messages

Screenshot of Quasseldroid showing the difference between highlighted messages where realname and message is white text, and normal non-highlight messages where realname is darker text on dark background compared to white text of message contents

Edited by Shane Synan