@William Reynish (billreynish) - I think he means the Blender 3D cursor, not the mouse cursor. Could use some love to work better on very dark and very dark backgrounds. And maybe thought through for color blindness too.

Sorry I wasn't specific enought. I mean the text cursor

this one{F8157279}

I'm not sure why the text editor cursor is red anyway. The cursor everywhere else in Blender is colored by the theme to be a blue that goes well with everything else in the interface.

I would think there would be a global text cursor color defined in the theme and it wouldn't be local to different spaces.

But then why not change it in the theme settings?

In T71793#815693, @Harley Acheson (harley) wrote:

But then why not change it in the theme settings?

I didn't know about that cursor color property. But this is weird. What about the other text cursors in the rest of the application, is there a hidden property too? They seem to be hardcoded. Why can't they all share the same color property?

@ThinkingPolygons (ThinkingPolygons) - What about the other text cursors in the rest of the application, is there a hidden property too? They seem to be hardcoded. Why can't they all share the same color property?

Oh you mean while entering text or a number into a regular UI element, for example in Properties or Preferences? Yes that is hardcoded (0.2, 0.6, 0.9). That could be fixed if I can find a nice central place to put such a theme preference. In the "Styles" section perhaps?

Why can't they all share the same color property?

We give the ability to have different background colors in the Console Editor and the Text Editor so it makes sense that you might need a different color for the text insertion caret for those two.

In T71793#815693, @Harley Acheson (harley) wrote:

But then why not change it in the theme settings?

This is what I did, but I still think that when accessibility come with literally no downside, it should be the default, also well differentiate foreground and background is a bit "web design 101"

In T71793#816028, @Harley Acheson (harley) wrote:

Oh you mean while entering text or a number into a regular UI element, for example in Properties or Preferences?

Yeah, those ones.

In the "Styles" section perhaps?

Why not? ?

But yeah, currently those are literally almost impossible to see, doesn't matter which theme. A theme setting would be a savior lol.

@Valentin (Poulpator) This is what I did, but I still think that when accessibility come with literally no downside, it should be the default, also well differentiate foreground and background is a bit "web design 101"

So this topic is just about the default colors set in the themes that ship with Blender and that can be changed at any time to suit individuals?

And you are asking for some change but have not proposed anything specific. Are you asking us to just make a better guess? Anything but red?

@ThinkingPolygons (ThinkingPolygons) - ...those are literally almost impossible to see, doesn't matter which theme.

Yes, I've got something almost ready. It'll also fix the oversight that the width of the thing does not change with user scale or dpi. So it gets harder to see if you are using a high-dpi display like Retina.

@Harley Acheson (harley) Amazing. ?

This should add ability to change that text insertion cursor color outside of Text Editor and Python console:

https://developer.blender.org/D6295