I’ve searched for this and can’t find it, so I apologize if I missed it.
In Galley View, the instrument names are pale blue and very, very small. As a result of that combination, they are literally useless (I cannot read them) to my senior citizen eyes.
Is there a setting for that, or do I just have to live with it?
Thanks!
I think editing the ‘Galley view margin labels’ paragraph style in Engrave > Paragraph Styles will do the job.
Thanks, Daniel. Setting the size larger and the style to Bold helped quite a bit. However, the thing that would help the most would be setting the color of names to black, and I couldn’t find a way to do that.
I thought it would be the foreground color, but setting that to black had no effect. Am I missing something?
Thanks again.
No, unfortunately you can’t change the colour: that is hardcoded.
Ok, thanks.
But that being the case, what if anything is the function of the Foreground Color setting in the Galley View Margin Labels paragraph settings?
For that specific paragraph style, it doesn’t apply, because it’s not being used in the same way that you would ordinarily use a paragraph style, but you can change the default foreground colour for text in general using this mechanism, if the mood takes you.
Thanks again, Daniel.
This is not a deal-breaker for me. 
I was looking for a way to enlarge the staff names in Galley View, and came across this topic. However, in Dorico Pro 5 I cannot find the Engrave>Paragraph Styles setting you describe. Where would I find that?
Its now under Library > Paragraph styles.
Got it! Thanks!
Is there a way to make all of the percussion staff labels look the same in Galley view, even if they only have one instrument assigned? I’d like to have all percussion staves show as Percussion X: Instrument, even if they only have one instrument assigned. So, for example, on the attached screenshot, I’d like to have the suspended cymbal player show as Percussion 2: Suspended Cymbal so I can easily see the part distribution. Not having every player name listed slows me down a bit.
EDIT: I’ve added a blank Percussion Kit for each player, which gets me the result, but adds additional unneeded staves. If there’s a way to define this for percussion staves, regardless of the number of instruments assigned to a given player, that would be ideal.
Also, is there a way to bracket/brace staves together by player in Galley view, instead of the instrument groupings that Dorico uses?
I wanted to follow up on this post. I, too, was trying to figure out where my instrument names were in galley view. I searched in vain for a setting that would make them visible. Then… I scrolled a half inch to the right and they magically appeared! That is, when you’re scrolled to the very beginning of the piece and the system brackets are visible the instrument names are not shown. If I scroll to bar 2 they appear. It seems like it would make more sense to have them visible all the time.
The thinking is probably that when you’re scrolled all the way to the start of the piece, you can see the regular staff labels and don’t need the margin labels.
Okay. I see now that I had “Staff labels on first system” set to “none.” My bad. Still, Dorico should default to showing the greyish-blue instrument names in the home position when the staff labels are off in the Layout Options. I searched for this forever!
Yes, that would be nice.
This was very useful, Thanks. I had issues that the bar numbers and instrument names were wildly different sizes but changing it to absolute instead of staff-relative fixed that.
It would be great if there was an apply button in this window like there is in the score layout as testing sizes requires a lot of clicking back into the paragraph style menu.
