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A few things to call out: 1) Dark mode is increasingly not exclusively about the user experience. We're seeing phones switch automatically to dark mode when ba
by arriu 7y ago
A few things to call out:
1) Dark mode is increasingly not exclusively about the user experience. We're seeing phones switch automatically to dark mode when batteries are low.
2) Dark mode, at least for email, has better readability by design. The dark mode algorithm swaps foreground with background and then adjusts the colors to be at least at a ratio of 4.5 to 1 (wcag 2 compliance). This means you can have unreadable white text over white background in light mode and it will actually be readable in dark mode. So having discussions about whether dark mode is more readable is kind of pointless, it was designed to be more accessible.
edit: If there is interest, I can share a desktop app that helps illustrate dark-mode changes (specifically for email). https://imgur.com/NOGT5el https://imgur.com/NOGT5el
- dasKrokodil 7y ago> We're seeing phones switch automatically to dark mode when batteries are low. Do phone displays really save energy when displaying more black pixels? I always thought that's not the case because the backlight is always on for the entire display anyway.
- lucian1900 7y agoIt has some effect for OLEDs, in which there is no backlight and dark pixels are simply off.
- kevingadd 7y agoYeah, this is the quirk exploited by features on some phones like "always on display" to be remotely viable battery-wise. They still eat into your battery but because the screen is mostly black and the on-screen elements are dim + infrequently updated, you can leave it enabled and be OK.