I switched Emacs back to light mode because light mode is, objectively, easier to read. One thing that helps with the "staring into a glowing rectangle of doom

I switched Emacs back to light mode because light mode is, objectively, easier to read. One thing that helps with the "staring into a glowing rectangle of doom" thing is not having the background set to bright white. I was messing about with old Solaris when I found its terminal windows were much easier to read than xterm's white default. So I set my Emacs background to "OldLace" (#fdf5e6) rather than plain white.