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Since getting OLED displays I've started using more all black themes. Especially at night it helps decrease the amount of light my phone emits significantly (or
by wickedsight 5y ago
Since getting OLED displays I've started using more all black themes. Especially at night it helps decrease the amount of light my phone emits significantly (or so it seems).
- Klaster_1 5y agoAt night, I can barely see my finger against the empty Feedly screen. Too bad not all applications (looking at you, Strava and MFP) provide an OLED-compatible dark theme and the "Force dark mode" dev setting does not persist after a restart.
- qubyte 5y agoThis is why I use black for the background on my own site, and high-contrast dark themes where available.
- LinAGKar 5y agoLight on black severely hurts readability though.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoThat depends on the background light in the room. In a dark room, light on black is the most readable.
- kps 5y agoLight on black is wretched for people with astigmatism.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoI have pretty bad astigmatism and love white on black in a dark room on an AMOLED screen with the brightness turned way down. It's the only screen I can look at for over 10 hours without getting a head ache.
- qubyte 5y agoI happen to have a pretty pronounced astigmatism. I still prefer light (note, not white in the case of my site) on black.
- officeplant 5y agoAstigmatism in both eyes and I still use it although my glasses help somewhat. I find that it's usually not all that bad at night when it comes to the halos around text or doesn't really bother me enough vs adding more light by going with a lighter grey theme.
- campital 5y agoThere is the problem of "OLED smearing"[0] with pure black that makes using it somewhat unviable. It seems that some OLEDs are more susceptible than others, though. Also fairly certain that this only happens with #000. [0] https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/1053519077958803456?lang=en https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/1053519077958803456?l...
- account42 5y agoAll LCD technologies have pixel transition times that vary based on the old and new colors and are often larger than the refresh rate, this is nothing new with OLED. Typically these do get improved over time. I've compared the video on my OLED phone and non-OLED monitor and the smearing is not significantly different.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThat's only relevant for animations.
- officeplant 5y agoThat and doom scrolling on on my pure black theme'd apps at night. Although I've gotten used to the smearing and don't really mind it anymore.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoIncluding scrolling, which is an extremely common interaction. I still stick with pure black whenever possible though, despite that.
- betwixthewires 5y agoI do the same thing. Black background with white text is by far the best contrast setup for reading hands down, it's better than reading paper or e ink. The only thing entering my eyes is the information I want to see, since I started reading this way I cannot purchase a mobile device without OLED.
- uplifter 5y agoAnd OLED screens power consumption is proportional to how much color/white is displayed, so black uses less power. Good for your battery, and the environment too. In a dark room or outside at night, black on an OLED is truly black and everything else floats magically in the void, it's a wonderful effect.
- nottorp 5y agoBack when we had CRTs where black also meant no light, you could have real dark in the room if you only had a terminal with green on black or white on black on the screen :)