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Interesting, this is the first time I've heard that opinion. For myself, I get annoyed whenever a dark mode isn't #000000; it's not about saving battery, it's a
by JoshTriplett 1y ago
Interesting, this is the first time I've heard that opinion. For myself, I get annoyed whenever a dark mode isn't #000000; it's not about saving battery, it's about the pixels being off, which I find more readable. (I got an OLED specifically because it makes it more comfortable spending time in a terminal.)
Can you say more about your use case and why you prefer gray over black?
- kccqzy 1y agoBlack is too much contrast. The high contrast simply hurts my eyes. For a gray theme nicely done, look at the GitHub gray theme (called "soft dark") as an example.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoFascinating. Different use cases for different people. On GitHub, I use the default dark mode ("dark default") and then enable "high contrast", which makes the background black. (I also get annoyed when light modes are dark grey on light grey, rather than black on white for maximum contrast.) There's a CSS preference for contrast. It seems easy enough to handle `@media(prefers-contrast: low)` and set a gray background. The contentious part would presumably be the default; I would have thought #000000 was the obvious default for a dark mode but apparently that's not what everyone prefers. Ideally, OSes and browsers would expose controls for this in a straightforward way, the way they handle dark mode. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/prefers-contrast https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...