My installation of MySQL Workbench is rather unusable because of the font/background colours. Initially I assumed that this was due to the Light/Dark theme on Mac OSX Mojave, but I have switched between both and it still remains the same. The problem has only started since I upgraded to Mac OSX Mojave. Is there anything I can do to make things more visible?
Edit: My currently selected theme is the 'Light Theme'
use
defaults write com.oracle.workbench.MySQLWorkbench NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool yes
to exclude workbench from dark mode
use
defaults delete com.oracle.workbench.MySQLWorkbench NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance
to reset to default
MySQL Workbench 8.0.13 doesn't support the new dark mode of macOS Mojave yet. This will come with a future release. Until then keep using the light mode if the use of MySQL Workbench (and other software which still needs to be updated) is essential for you.
Update
Starting with MySQL Workbench 8.0.14 the new dark mode is fully supported.
defaults write com.oracle.workbench.MySQLWorkbench NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool yes
Run this in CMD
Just run curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/AmreeshTyagi/29220b3d55c21cf3664efa7352c0ee6e/raw/36a81e1ebc5e13b3543fecc0893285b2c6244276/workbench-ui-fix.sh
OR
execute this gist https://gist.github.com/AmreeshTyagi/29220b3d55c21cf3664efa7352c0ee6e
Ref: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=92902
Though all above answers are similar, but still sharing this handy script to fork.