This is kinda clickbait - all of the research mentioned was not 'research' at all - all the articles mentioned by the OP as "studies" (apart from the battery section) were from NN, or Nielson Norman Group, which were opinion articles by authors employed at that company lightly referencing a few studies. It's all highly subjective and opinionated at best, and "ain’t all that" is about the best we can say on this subject to date. Research doesn't suggest much at all, except you save battery with dark mode on OLED screens, that at least is conclusive.
Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
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Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#92Yes, it is. I like dark mode because it doesn't hurt my eyes.
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just change the brightness of the monitor twice a day.
...buried 2 or 3 menu layers deep, using a magic sequence of three buttons to handle all the up-down/left-right multi-level hierarchical menu navigation complexities. One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons. Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.) TV's should do this too.…
> seriously, who uses F-keys?
Mainframe programmers.
They are an essential part of interacting with an IBM mainframe (even for basic things like paging up and down through documents).
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
...buried 2 or 3 menu layers deep, using a magic sequence of three buttons to handle all the up-down/left-right multi-level hierarchical menu navigation complexities. One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons. Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.) TV's should do this too.…
It's insane how monitor software hasn't developed an inch from the 90s. How hard can it be to have an open API for the basic controls at least so the OS can adjust them? Everything about my monitor is great - 144hz refresh rate, great viewing angle and colors - except if I want to change any of the physical properties (brightness, contrast) I'm clicking around on a variety of buttons that I can't see like I'm trying…
This actually exists, and it’s called DDC/CI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel
I only recently learned about it myself while setting up a new monitor and asking myself wtf is this DDC/CI setting in the menu.
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#95Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#96Apparently light-on-dark is terrible if the person has astigmatism: the edges get very blurry and doubled. There was an article on HN about this, specifically about keynote slides. Also apparently “in Europe and Asia, astigmatism affects between 30 and 60% of adults” (says Wikipedia). I have it too, and couldn't figure out in the past why text sometimes looks horribly blurry and sometimes doesn't. With this knowledge…
Only for light on solid dark. If you use light on non-solid dark it's fine. Can definitely said it as person with astigmatism.
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#97Apple started it to improve battery life for their OLED screen future. Even today there are a bunch of major apps that haven't implemented dark mode yet. You have to start early so devs migrate by the time it's majority.
OLED probably means I can't use the traditional blue background anymore...
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#98Apparently light-on-dark is terrible if the person has astigmatism: the edges get very blurry and doubled. There was an article on HN about this, specifically about keynote slides. Also apparently “in Europe and Asia, astigmatism affects between 30 and 60% of adults” (says Wikipedia). I have it too, and couldn't figure out in the past why text sometimes looks horribly blurry and sometimes doesn't. With this knowledge…
That's true for me as well. I couldn't read the oven clock (blue on black) at just 10 feet away. Anything bright on a dark background is just a blurry radiation pattern.
The reason dark-themed terminal and coding is fine, might be the monospace fonts. They are square-ish, so there is less need to find the edges accurately. They are also eligible on very cheap, trashy screens. As a side effect, code is readable in dark themes even with astigmatism. (No source, just a wild guess)
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#99I don't like Dark Mode. I even set my terminal emulator to white background with black text.
I'm the same. I think because I'm more concerned about the surrounding lighting and making sure the brightness of my monitor is appropriate for that. Once that's done, light mode has greater readability for me than dark mode.
I've tried dark mode a few times in the past because I felt like that's what you should use to code. But I simply don't like looking directly at bright text.
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#100>Is Dark Mode Such A Good Idea? Yes. >Many people quote light mode as being a contributory factor to eye strain. Based on the reading I’ve done, this doesn’t appear to be true. I'll test that now. - Blindy migraine mode: Hurts. - Dark mode: Doesn't hurt. - Different result ever? No. The above is from the undisputed, worldwide expert on what I feel.
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