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Oofta. Is anyone having trouble with white text on black background? That was a design anti pattern that I thought died out in the early 2,000's.

d23 5y ago
How’s that an anti-pattern? With dark mode, it’s more in style than ever now.
- deleted 5y ago
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- justinator 5y ago
  It's an accessibility problem, especially for people (like me) who have astigmatism. But y'all don't look away from white text on black background to a bright light source (like a page of black text on a white background) and get a "burned in" impression of the previous page in your vision? Lucky you. Dark mode is fine, please let the user choose to have dark mode when she wants to.
  - lotsofpulp 5y ago
    I wish HN had a dark mode option.
    - justinator 5y ago
      Whip up some css to your liking and inject it into hn's HTML - there's lots of examples of people doing things like that.
      - lotsofpulp 5y ago
        I only browse it on Safari in iOS when I am wasting time.
  - notapenny 5y ago
    Out of sheer curiosity, is it just the white on black and would a "softer" light-grey on dark-grey be better for you? Or just generally light on dark?
    - justinator 5y ago
      The problem in general is the stark contrast between white and black. My editor is set with a grey background with grey text (or low chroma colors), and it works great.
UI_at_80x24 5y ago
I actually prefer it. It's easier on my eyes.
misterS 5y ago
This is called "dark mode" nowadays, and it's a feature.
martneumann 5y ago
Same for me. It produces some glare for me and I use dark mode almost everywhere. I also don't like the huge font. Looks almost what I'd expect an h2 to look like.
- justinator 5y ago
  There IS also a difference (as well) between Dark Mode and pure white text (or close to it) on pure black background. Usually a Dark Mode will have the contrast be slightly less (both text and bg are grays). Sorry to point this out, but it IS a UI design site, and the person is griping about the minutia problems of an Apple device, so: fair game.

d23 5y ago

How’s that an anti-pattern? With dark mode, it’s more in style than ever now.

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justinator 5y ago
It's an accessibility problem, especially for people (like me) who have astigmatism. But y'all don't look away from white text on black background to a bright light source (like a page of black text on a white background) and get a "burned in" impression of the previous page in your vision? Lucky you. Dark mode is fine, please let the user choose to have dark mode when she wants to.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  I wish HN had a dark mode option.
  - justinator 5y ago
    Whip up some css to your liking and inject it into hn's HTML - there's lots of examples of people doing things like that.
    - lotsofpulp 5y ago
      I only browse it on Safari in iOS when I am wasting time.
- notapenny 5y ago
  Out of sheer curiosity, is it just the white on black and would a "softer" light-grey on dark-grey be better for you? Or just generally light on dark?
  - justinator 5y ago
    The problem in general is the stark contrast between white and black. My editor is set with a grey background with grey text (or low chroma colors), and it works great.

UI_at_80x24 5y ago

I actually prefer it. It's easier on my eyes.

misterS 5y ago

This is called "dark mode" nowadays, and it's a feature.

martneumann 5y ago

Same for me. It produces some glare for me and I use dark mode almost everywhere. I also don't like the huge font. Looks almost what I'd expect an h2 to look like.

justinator 5y ago
There IS also a difference (as well) between Dark Mode and pure white text (or close to it) on pure black background. Usually a Dark Mode will have the contrast be slightly less (both text and bg are grays). Sorry to point this out, but it IS a UI design site, and the person is griping about the minutia problems of an Apple device, so: fair game.