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Pretty tangential, but with AMOLED screens, I really hope society starts embracing a dark-mode default for interfaces. There is no reason to use light-mode with
by anonytrary 8y ago
Pretty tangential, but with AMOLED screens, I really hope society starts embracing a dark-mode default for interfaces. There is no reason to use light-mode with modern screens. It's taxing on the eyes, probably not good for kids and teens who are using screens 4 hours a day and it doesn't seem to offer benefits over dark-mode in terms of accessibility.
It's nice to see more and more websites and operating systems providing dark theme toggles, but I hope one day that light-mode becomes a thing of the past.
- goatlover 8y agoI prefer reading black text on white screens, thank you very much. Code in an editor is different because syntax highlighting is better on black.
- recursive 8y agoI prefer syntax highlighting on a white background, thank you very much.
- saagarjha 8y ago> There is no reason to use light-mode with modern screens. It's taxing on the eyes, probably not good for kids and teens who are using screens 4 hours a day and it doesn't seem to offer benefits over dark-mode in terms of accessibility. Aside from the fact that many people prefer it?
- wiseleo 8y agoHmm... no. Google Maps alternates between light and dark based on ambient light. That's the optional behavior I want for all apps. I use the Android feature to invert all colors at times.
- anonytrary 8y agoInverting colors is not the right solution yet as it affects colors for everything, including things that you don't mean to invert. Browsing Twitter? All of the videos and images are now inverted. Anything that is nice enough to be in dark mode now appears super bright. Inversion would be better if it was "smart" and applied to interfaces, not content.
- deathanatos 8y agoI happen to agree with you, but others might not. I'd rather the system just let the user decide, and that preference get propagated into the appropriate place. But, every company wants their app be a glorified ad for the app I'm already using, and wants it to use their branding: their colors, their fonts, their precise level of rounded corners. I just want to have a consistent UX that allows me to get shit done.
- Tempest1981 8y agoDark mode on any Mac display results in massive reflections -- like a mirror -- unless you work in a near-dark office.
- anonytrary 8y agoBest counterargument I've seen on this matter. Until low reflectivity on screens becomes the norm, I doubt we'll ever see a default dark mode or the riddance of the light mode.
- gnicholas 8y agoI prefer day-mode when in bright light. Otherwise the black background ends up reflecting the bright light. I often prefer night-mode when it is not bright out, and at nighttime.
- nomel 8y agoI think the problem is that many of the "dark themes" have grayish fonts that give low contrast. If the font were pure white, the resulting contrast is much more usable in bright light I achieve this by setting my display to higher contrast to blow out the grays, in bright light.
- gnicholas 8y agoI’m not actually using night themes, but rather OS-level inversion. It might be that it’s the same effect because the text is actually dark grey, which ends up being inverted to light grey. I actually think it’s more likely that many sites use very lightweight fonts, which means that in night mode there’s a lot of dark pixels showing.
- Waterluvian 8y agoHonestly this is only true when I'm in my basement cave. When I'm in the normal world with sunlight I need the standard brightness and white backgrounds.