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I love OLED displays my laptop and tablet: when working at night, it's a wonderful complement to eink (when working at day) I thought 4k was great, but if I ca

by csdvrx 3y ago

I love OLED displays my laptop and tablet: when working at night, it's a wonderful complement to eink (when working at day) I thought 4k was great, but if I can get a 25% increase in dpi or a better efficiency, I'm very interested!

rpastuszak 3y ago
I can’t wait for OLED displays in Macs. Night mode > dark mode ( https://untested.sonnet.io/Heart+of+Dorkness https://untested.sonnet.io/Heart+of+Dorkness) I built an OLED friendly reading app (midnight.sonnet.io) and I’m waiting to add night mode to my writing app (enso.sonnet.io) since I occasionally use it in darker environments. I also made a simple obsidian “night mode” config I use on my OLED screen.
- bookofjoe 3y ago
  >MacBook Pro With OLED Display Likely Still at Least Three Years Away https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/11/macbook-pro-oled-three-years-away/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/11/macbook-pro-oled-three-...
- alin23 3y ago
  Wild! I am working on exactly the same thing now for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi https://lunar.fyi), and I'm also calling it Night Mode ^_^ what a coincidence I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less painful for months, but doing that at the system level on macOS is incredibly hard. I see you're doing it with CSS filters, which make sense in the limited scope of an article. But applying something like that on the whole macOS UI would cause confusion. I already use something similar on the iPhone: I read on the Kindle app which has white text on black background, then I have a full red Color Tint filter on the Triple Back Tap shortcut which I use before reading. Very similar effect to your solution, although I don't have images in my books.
  - csdvrx 3y ago
    > I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less painful for months, but doing that at the system level on macOS is incredibly hard. I see you're doing it with CSS filters, which make sense in the limited scope of an article. But applying something like that on the whole macOS UI would cause confusion Can I suggest you "my one simple trick" when I was doing the same on Windows? Increase contrast, a lot, in the original RGB space, then only keep the R channel, then invert the picture. It's like doing a "black and white" mode, but as "black and red" and avoids losing "faint colors". Also, you remove the color consistency problem (IIRC the perception of colors is not symmetrical on light and dark backgrounds, I think it was pioneered by Ethan Schoonover for Solarized) BTW the inversion should be optional, to be nice to apps using a dark theme (ex: many terminals by default) and may work best on a window-by-window basis if that's possible on the Mac. The best results are when using a system light theme + light themed apps.
- csdvrx 3y ago
  > Night mode > dark mode Absolutely! > I built an OLED friendly reading app Very nice! On windows, I use a program that runs matrix operations on the color space, so that I could increase the contrast, invert, then only keep the red chanel On wayland I can do that with wl-gamma: for an equivalent of your app but at the wayland level, try: `wl-gammarelay-rs & busctl --user -- set-property rs.wl-gammarelay / rs.wl.gammarelay Temperature q 1000` > I also made a simple obsidian “night mode” config I use on my OLED screen. I had similar setups for my editors, but removing syntax coloring and using the raise contrast + only keep the red channel turned out to be simpler to generalize
- crazygringo 3y ago
  > Night mode > dark mode Can you elaborate what that means? I looked through the article linked but couldn't find any obvious explanation.
  - cracrecry 3y ago
    Red letters and icons like in submarines so your "day mode" vision does not get activated. Here is the astronomical software Stellarium: https://rasc.ca/sites/default/files/SMP-red.png https://rasc.ca/sites/default/files/SMP-red.png
  - Novosell 3y ago
    Instead of the dark areas being dark gray, they are pure black. To me it looks worse tbh.
    - csdvrx 3y ago
      Night mode usually means red on black. At night, a black background with a faint red foreground is ideal: one extra advantage of this "submarine mode" is the lack of blue light, to avoid disturbing sleep Dark gray is acceptable as a proxy for the black background only if you don't have an OLED display (or if you're not in a dark room) Some people with vision problems report that white on black cause visual artefacts for them, but it's often because they use a brightness that's too high

by csdvrx 3y ago

rpastuszak 3y ago

I can’t wait for OLED displays in Macs. Night mode > dark mode ( https://untested.sonnet.io/Heart+of+Dorkness https://untested.sonnet.io/Heart+of+Dorkness) I built an OLED friendly reading app (midnight.sonnet.io) and I’m waiting to add night mode to my writing app (enso.sonnet.io) since I occasionally use it in darker environments. I also made a simple obsidian “night mode” config I use on my OLED screen.

bookofjoe 3y ago
>MacBook Pro With OLED Display Likely Still at Least Three Years Away https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/11/macbook-pro-oled-three-years-away/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/11/macbook-pro-oled-three-...
alin23 3y ago
Wild! I am working on exactly the same thing now for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi https://lunar.fyi), and I'm also calling it Night Mode ^_^ what a coincidence I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less painful for months, but doing that at the system level on macOS is incredibly hard. I see you're doing it with CSS filters, which make sense in the limited scope of an article. But applying something like that on the whole macOS UI would cause confusion. I already use something similar on the iPhone: I read on the Kindle app which has white text on black background, then I have a full red Color Tint filter on the Triple Back Tap shortcut which I use before reading. Very similar effect to your solution, although I don't have images in my books.
- csdvrx 3y ago
  > I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less painful for months, but doing that at the system level on macOS is incredibly hard. I see you're doing it with CSS filters, which make sense in the limited scope of an article. But applying something like that on the whole macOS UI would cause confusion Can I suggest you "my one simple trick" when I was doing the same on Windows? Increase contrast, a lot, in the original RGB space, then only keep the R channel, then invert the picture. It's like doing a "black and white" mode, but as "black and red" and avoids losing "faint colors". Also, you remove the color consistency problem (IIRC the perception of colors is not symmetrical on light and dark backgrounds, I think it was pioneered by Ethan Schoonover for Solarized) BTW the inversion should be optional, to be nice to apps using a dark theme (ex: many terminals by default) and may work best on a window-by-window basis if that's possible on the Mac. The best results are when using a system light theme + light themed apps.
csdvrx 3y ago
> Night mode > dark mode Absolutely! > I built an OLED friendly reading app Very nice! On windows, I use a program that runs matrix operations on the color space, so that I could increase the contrast, invert, then only keep the red chanel On wayland I can do that with wl-gamma: for an equivalent of your app but at the wayland level, try: `wl-gammarelay-rs & busctl --user -- set-property rs.wl-gammarelay / rs.wl.gammarelay Temperature q 1000` > I also made a simple obsidian “night mode” config I use on my OLED screen. I had similar setups for my editors, but removing syntax coloring and using the raise contrast + only keep the red channel turned out to be simpler to generalize
crazygringo 3y ago
> Night mode > dark mode Can you elaborate what that means? I looked through the article linked but couldn't find any obvious explanation.
- cracrecry 3y ago
  Red letters and icons like in submarines so your "day mode" vision does not get activated. Here is the astronomical software Stellarium: https://rasc.ca/sites/default/files/SMP-red.png https://rasc.ca/sites/default/files/SMP-red.png
- Novosell 3y ago
  Instead of the dark areas being dark gray, they are pure black. To me it looks worse tbh.
  - csdvrx 3y ago
    Night mode usually means red on black. At night, a black background with a faint red foreground is ideal: one extra advantage of this "submarine mode" is the lack of blue light, to avoid disturbing sleep Dark gray is acceptable as a proxy for the black background only if you don't have an OLED display (or if you're not in a dark room) Some people with vision problems report that white on black cause visual artefacts for them, but it's often because they use a brightness that's too high