Material: autocomplete: highlight hardly highlights anything

[oliversalzburg]

Actual Behavior:
When using md-highlight-text, the resulting highlight isn't actually highlighting anything. At least the contrast is so low, that hardly any effect is visible.

CodePen (or steps to reproduce the issue): *
You can observe the problem directly at https://material.angularjs.org/HEAD/demo/autocomplete

Additional Information:
Chrome stable, Windows

[mckenzielong]

Looks like the example from the spec uses something close to #b3b3b3 where the autocomplete component is using #757575. Maybe something like background-500 would be a better choice (400 seems too light, especially with hover)

[Splaktar]

This is now covered in Search Pattern of the Material spec.

[Splaktar]

As you can see from the updated spec, bold is used to indicate currently typed characters instead of decreasing the opacity of the text.

[Splaktar]

Opened https://github.com/angular/material/pull/11244 with the updates to the new spec guidance.

[clshortfuse]

Looks right to me as Roboto Bold (700)