Piacitelli

I have been using the default Source Sans Pro on Mac and Android for years and for me it's part of the UI personality in Evernote. Of my notes. I can understand that some folks might want multiple fonts here, but I do not - - I'm a graphic and UI designer myself, but in Evernote I want to quickly record, organize, and retrieve information, I don't want to design or decorate to the point of choosing different fonts. On Mac and Android, both clients have used the same typography for years, and that builds great confidence that my notes are in sync and accessible wherever and whenever I need them. In these new versions, the new default 'Sans Serif' typeface / font feels like it's injecting itself in my notes, and while I'm glad I have the option of choosing the previous default font (Source Sans Pro), I find myself wasting a ton of repetitive time doing this, even within notes that I have been using very functionally on a daily basis (happily and effectively) for years. If there were a setting for the default font, this would save me a ton of time.

It's true that there was a blog post about this, but in my opinion that post didn't really call out the departure from the green color in favor of the new blue/purple in particular. They showed some screens, but those show blue/purple and green highlights in fairly equal amounts … in actual use, though, so far, I feel that's inaccurate. For as long as I can remember, Evernote's personality in the UI had been white and shades of gray, and nearly all highlight color was green. Now in use, the highlight color is almost all the blue/purple; buttons, hyperlinks, checkboxes, note links. Combine that with the typeface changes, which I find very subjective (they claim better readability, I think that's negligible and not worth the interruption). I do appreciate some of the structural/architechtural changes that must have been a ton of work and have added speed and stability to syncing. But these aesthetic changes in my opinion are not improvements but instead are interruptions to a user base that as far as I know were not complaining or having problems with the visual UI.

Like many of you, I have been a many-times-daily user of Evernote for well over 10 years. I'm just seeing the new UI changes on Mac this morning. I appreciate any functionality improvements that might be happening (e.g., improving sync of a note that's accessed by multiple accounts using multiple devices). But I find the aesthetic UI changes jarring and random. Changing the font we've become comfortable with and used to? Making some of the buttons blue/purple? And the strange fade in the background from super light yellow to super light purple that appears to be locked in, can't I just change it to a shade of gray? I guess I'm not surprised that the new owners are changing some of these things, but to me these don't feel like improvements, just subjective changes for reasons that I can't see.