Nearly invisible text color on bright background

[reginabally]

Describe the bug

It was reported in 4838810-zd-woothemes that the text in the WPAndroid 19.2 is nearly invisible because it is white in color on a bright background. I was able to reproduce this in WPiOS 19.3.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. On a WPCOM site, activate the Livro theme
2. Go to https://wordpress.com > My Site > Appearance > Editor, change the background color to a bright color (#fcf4f4 in the reported case), set the text and link color to "Default (Black)"
3. Create a test post on Calypso with a Paragraph block that contains text, save the post as a draft or publish it
4. Open up the post in the app, noticed the text is white in color

Expected behavior

I would expect the app to honor the color settings on the site and displayed the text color in the app's editor.

Screenshots

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: Xiaomi M2103K19G
• OS: Android 11

Also reproduced in iPhone 11, iOS 15.3.1.

[hypest]

Confirmed from my side as well.

@geriux , since you have recently worked on picking the colors from the theme, is this behavior here expected? 🤔

[geriux]

Hey 👋

is this behavior here expected? 🤔

It is not expected, this issue was related to custom colors not loading correctly on the editor. This was fixed in WordPress/gutenberg#38417 which will ship on 19.4. I checked that this works correctly in the current beta.

[hypest]

Thanks for the update @geriux !

@reginabally , I will go ahead and close this ticket as "addressed/fixed" but happy to reopen if we see that the fix is not perhaps covering the issue.