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Hard to read image captions on dark theme
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Description

Steps to reproduce

While reading articles and having dark theme, the description text for an image (caption) uses a dark grey font that is not adequate for the dark theme, ie. this text has lightness too close to that of the background and makes it VERY difficult to read.

Expected results

Image caption text color should be lighter. Current text color has too low contrast against the background.
Making it colored (ie. not grey) to distinguish it from article text might help. Different color then the one used for links.

Same goes for black theme.

Actual results

Image captions have a styling that sets them apart from the article text, but at the same time be readable / intelligible / distinguishable from the background.

Please note that the screenshot below does not illustrate things to their true value.
In real life, on actual smartphone display, the image caption text visibility / contrast is much much lower.
It is especially bad for multi-line captions and low lighting conditions when phone display luminosity decreases.

Screenshot_20250118-180208_Wikipedia.jpg (1,440×2,960 px, 500 KB)

Stack trace

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Environments observed

App version: 2.7.50517-r-2025-01-21
Android OS versions: 9
Device model: Samsung Galaxy S9+
Device language: en

Event Timeline

I have noticed this problem for a long time (years).
It is true that only now I gathered the info to make a proper bug report.

My thanks to Wikipedia Volunteer Response Team <info-en@wikimedia.org> for guiding me to report it here.