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One of my pet peeves about screen UIs is that they're worse than they need to be for night use. Modern dark themes are blue-heavy, which negatively impacts both
by AlotOfReading 11mo ago
One of my pet peeves about screen UIs is that they're worse than they need to be for night use. Modern dark themes are blue-heavy, which negatively impacts both pupil response and bleaching more than colors of the same luminance with more green and red.
- ansgri 11mo agoThere should be two dark modes: a simple dark mode, like most dark themes today, to work in dimmed lighting, and an actual night mode, designed to be legible but not mess with adaptation in total darkness. I don't know the research on this (and I'm sure military and aviation have lots of data here), but intuitively it should use mostly thin red and green lines.
- trinix912 11mo agoSome cars (Honda Civic) had this feature where you could change the theme of the UI and it had 3-4 presets (blue, red, amber, green IIRC). That was before those screens were just a built-in Android tablet and sadly it didn't carry over. But you're right and it's the reason most german cars had red illuminated gauge clusters until a few years ago.
- kotaKat 11mo agoGive me back the Saab Night Panel. All I want is my speedo. https://i0.wp.com/saabblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Night-Panel.jpeg https://i0.wp.com/saabblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ni...
- fhars 11mo agoLike nightmode in Stellarium: https://www.stellarium-labs.com/blog/nightmode/ https://www.stellarium-labs.com/blog/nightmode/