Dark mode is harder to read, especially after a long day. But my wife has a light sleep and surfing light mode at night while being in bed is not an option.
Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
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Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#52I'm reading this thread with css adjustments from the Dark Reader Firefox extension that I just learned about a few weeks ago, and damn, I am soooo happy with it.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#53I have lots of eye floaters which annoy me when I'm looking at bright uniform surfaces, such as white paper or white background, but I hardly notice them with dark mode.
This is why I use dark mode too – and it's made a huge difference for me. My floaters are particularly noticeable on white-backgrounded screens/webpages on my 43" external monitor where because, I assume, my eyes have to dart across greater distances than when I'm using my MBP 14".
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#54I thought HN (aka dang) agreed to add a dark mode:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062
Am I missing something?
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#55Eh, I prefer dark mode aesthetically, and also I personally find that, at 4 am in a dark room where the only lights are a single desk lamp behind my monitors, and the monitors themselves, white backgrounds are painful. I’m willing to accept that if I was in a sunny room at high noon that light mode might be better.
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#56> Unless you’re using an OLED or AMOLED screen and your dark mode is truly black – not dark grey, not dark blue, BLACK. There is no difference in power consumption.
Depending on the file I guess mini-LED could also consume less power with a dark theme, right? If a whole region could be dimmed.
Is it true that an OLED displaying a dark color uses the same amount of power as one displaying a light color? I mean, clearly to get the full benefit you have to do full-black for the background, but I’d assume dark red should be less power than white.
The main reason I side dark mode though is that text on a black OLED in a totally dark room appears to just be floating there, which is cool looking.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#57I thought HN (aka dang) agreed to add a dark mode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062 Am I missing something?
Right now I’m reading HN on an iPad set to invert colors to make it dark. Settings -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Classic Invert. With that on I can use triple click on the home button to toggle it.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#58BTW, the Astronomy community has known the correct answer forever, which is to ONLY use red light.
This is achievable on OLED phones using software like (on android) Cf.Lumen, and setting it to a full redshift mode.
You will notice literally ZERO eye strain, even in the middle of the night, when you use this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_effects_of_high-ene...
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#59Lunar plug https://lunar.fyi/?source=lowtechguys Unrelated to dark mode, but is a visual game changer. People should also take the time out to get appropriate light bulbs for their studies and work desks. I want to speak more on visual settings in web design and GUIs, but I’m eating some corn chips. In brief, I’m starting to understand that accessibility concerns don’t refer exclusively to people with certain conditi…
>get appropriate light bulbs for their studies and work desks.
What are these?
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#60> Unless you’re using an OLED or AMOLED screen and your dark mode is truly black – not dark grey, not dark blue, BLACK. There is no difference in power consumption. Depending on the file I guess mini-LED could also consume less power with a dark theme, right? If a whole region could be dimmed. Is it true that an OLED displaying a dark color uses the same amount of power as one displaying a light color? I mean, clearl…
Seems right for microleds. However two years ago they weren't much of a thing for consumers. I think they still aren't in any significant way? Samsung has those massive microled tvs but I thought oled still reigned as the current king.