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Exactly! That's my take on this too. Dark Mode should only be for UI elements not for actual content. They would never do that with a PDF either.

michaelmior 8y ago
It's really a matter of preference. I personally would be happy if my PDFs would automatically display in "dark mode" (not that I expect that to be implemented). Perhaps browsers just need a setting to toggle this.
- Fuxy 8y ago
  Moon reader + on android allows you to invert the colours and that's what I do every time when I read pdf's and the like.
- mixmastamyk 8y ago
  Ctrl+I on Evince/Atril doc viewers. Then set as default: Ctrl+T
  - michaelmior 8y ago
    On Linux I use MuPDF which can also invert. (Although this isn't really "dark mode", since most PDF documents are black text on white, it gets the job done.)
josho 8y ago
Curious, I ended up turning off dark mode because I found web pages were jarringly bright compared to everything else on the screen.
- Fuxy 8y ago
  Don't you use websites that have a dark theme more instead. I always preferred websites that allowed me to select a dark theme and it seems to be more and more popular to do that. Hell even you-tube does that now.
  - josho 8y ago
    This is great, it means many sites won't have much work to support the CSS media query. I still would prefer to change a setting once, rather than establish a profile on every website to enable a dark theme.
  - Sharlin 8y ago
    Well, Youtube should have had a dark theme from day one. It makes zero sense to show videos on a bright white background.
consto 8y ago
Why not? I have a chrome extension to darken and/or invert webpages and PDFs, and I have SumatraPDF setup white text on black background for editing LaTeX?
scroblart 8y ago
It is nice to have the option of map pdf colors to correspond to one's color theme. I like to read pdfs in emacs alongside my notes, and I am very pleased that emacs' pdf-tools allows me to map colors as I choose (kind of - there are only two colors, foreground and background).

michaelmior 8y ago

It's really a matter of preference. I personally would be happy if my PDFs would automatically display in "dark mode" (not that I expect that to be implemented). Perhaps browsers just need a setting to toggle this.

Fuxy 8y ago
Moon reader + on android allows you to invert the colours and that's what I do every time when I read pdf's and the like.
mixmastamyk 8y ago
Ctrl+I on Evince/Atril doc viewers. Then set as default: Ctrl+T
- michaelmior 8y ago
  On Linux I use MuPDF which can also invert. (Although this isn't really "dark mode", since most PDF documents are black text on white, it gets the job done.)

josho 8y ago

Curious, I ended up turning off dark mode because I found web pages were jarringly bright compared to everything else on the screen.

Fuxy 8y ago
Don't you use websites that have a dark theme more instead. I always preferred websites that allowed me to select a dark theme and it seems to be more and more popular to do that. Hell even you-tube does that now.
- josho 8y ago
  This is great, it means many sites won't have much work to support the CSS media query. I still would prefer to change a setting once, rather than establish a profile on every website to enable a dark theme.
- Sharlin 8y ago
  Well, Youtube should have had a dark theme from day one. It makes zero sense to show videos on a bright white background.

consto 8y ago

Why not? I have a chrome extension to darken and/or invert webpages and PDFs, and I have SumatraPDF setup white text on black background for editing LaTeX?

scroblart 8y ago

It is nice to have the option of map pdf colors to correspond to one's color theme. I like to read pdfs in emacs alongside my notes, and I am very pleased that emacs' pdf-tools allows me to map colors as I choose (kind of - there are only two colors, foreground and background).