Check this out.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28904-x.pdf
Black on white causes myopia.
Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
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Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#172I was a big believer in dark mode for a long time, until I started trying to reduce my SAD symptoms during the winter time. I read this blog post here [0] after seeing it on HN, and ended up buying 28 100W equivalent bulbs and a 500W equivalent corn bulb. I get a pretty decent amount of light in my home office now, and light mode is essential on my workstation or it's almost impossible to even SEE anything on screen,…
Have you ever tried a bright environment and dark mode monitor? I'm working with this one about 3 years and it makes me both relax and comfortable.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#173I use dark mode because it looks cool, now go cry to your mama you light mode peasant.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#174All I can say is :shrug: As soon as I left the comfortable worlds of Apple ][ and MS-DOS and got shoved into Windows 3.0, I pined for a dark screen and started fucking with the color profile. When I was 12. When I started running Solaris and Linux boxes in college, always had a dark terminal, and wrote my code in vi. The older I get, the more I crave the darkness, and the UX bros are accommodating me. Maybe it's just…
It is interesting how different people have different experiences. I grew up in the days of green monochrome terminals and monitors, and hated them. I bought an amber monitor as soon as they became available, and that helped a bit with the eyestrain. Windows 3, Word for Windows and TSE were a godsend to me. Finally, I could read and write code and documents the way I thought they were intended to be viewed- dark text…
>Finally, I could read and write code and documents the way I thought they were intended to be viewed- dark text on a light background, mimicking real-world books and papers.
Real-world paper doesn't have a backlight behind it, projecting bright white light directly into your eyes. If you want to see documents the way they were "intended" to be viewed, you need to use an e-ink screen.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#175The light vs dark mode topic has come up several times on HN in the last few years, and it seems for one group that it is a religious conflict. That group seems especially (and aggressively) vocal in rejecting any observations or opinions from the other side. Each should use what they like, and eyes (and the brains that they depend on) are pretty unique. Therefore, I would not expect any two people to look at the sam…
I’d say it’s a religious issue for both groups. There are people on both sides of the fence who just want to use what’s comfortable (or use both situationally), and be left alone about it. Then there are those in both camps who want to convert others…
The dark mode proponents have a better reason to try to convert people: so they can actually use dark mode more. It's only been fairly recently that dark mode was even an option in most things, unless you just installed Linux and used a terminal all day long. The light mode proponents have never had this problem since the days of Windows 3.1. This isn't a case of just using what you prefer, because dark mode simply hasn't been available in most software, and still isn't (or isn't done very well) many times.
It's similar to how Linux users appeared to make it a religious issue 10-25 years ago. Linux needed mindshare to be usable, or else you wouldn't have access to the software you needed to actually use Linux daily, so of course Linux proponents needed to push it hard so they could get support and mindshare. If all the software companies had "simply" made Linux versions of everything, so that anyone could simply choose Linux over Windows/Mac, this wouldn't have been necessary.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#176I was a big believer in dark mode for a long time, until I started trying to reduce my SAD symptoms during the winter time. I read this blog post here [0] after seeing it on HN, and ended up buying 28 100W equivalent bulbs and a 500W equivalent corn bulb. I get a pretty decent amount of light in my home office now, and light mode is essential on my workstation or it's almost impossible to even SEE anything on screen,…
Have you ever tried a bright environment and dark mode monitor? I'm working with this one about 3 years and it makes me both relax and comfortable.
Maybe it’s just that my monitors are too dark, but when I try this everything just looks too washed out and I can’t really tell what I’m looking at. Switching to light mode was more a side effect of the increased lighting than anything.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#177I was a big believer in dark mode for a long time, until I started trying to reduce my SAD symptoms during the winter time. I read this blog post here [0] after seeing it on HN, and ended up buying 28 100W equivalent bulbs and a 500W equivalent corn bulb. I get a pretty decent amount of light in my home office now, and light mode is essential on my workstation or it's almost impossible to even SEE anything on screen,…
I added a diy 50W LED that shines on the white ceiling of my office room. The diffuse bounced light feels closer to sunlight. It’s wonderful for those darker days. Make sure to get a high-CRI led, that’s what really makes the difference in my opinion. Cheap leds will have a narrow frequency band, high CRI is what makes the reflected light feel more real. I use a cpu heatsink with silent fan to keep the led cool. [0]…
Fascinating, I’d be interested in seeing what ten or even twenty of these could do to a room. I’m curious how many lux I could get in a room without tripping a breaker. The added benefit is I don’t have to run a space heater!
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#178This post seems to boil down to, "I read a summary of one study, so I am confident in telling you all how wrong you are". Thanks but I'll let the scientific process play itself out over time. In the mean time, I appreciate that the public debate has induced phones, apps, and many web sites to give me the option to enjoy reading things all day without eye strain. The fact that more stuff defaults dark mode or follows…
> This post seems to boil down to, "I read a summary of one study, so I am confident in telling you all how wrong you are".
Most/all of the points were well known back in the days when I used CRT monitors - he's not reporting something new. In fact, reading some of the comments, I'm quite surprised people still believe there are inherent benefits to dark mode. There's not really much research supporting it.
It's just a preference thing. I myself prefer it as I grew up on terminals where dark was the default (and often, the only option). For those who prefer the opposite: Totally OK.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll take that as a "no." I appreciate the summary anyway, thanks.
Instead of a low-effort comment implying that a high-effort summary with zero rebuttals has been conjured out of nothing, please ask any question, about any sentence, for which you cannot find a source on the first page of Algolia/Google after entering the sentence as a query. They have been discussed many times here on HN and there are excellent references in those earlier threads. Alternately, ask the nearest optic…
Perhaps you've read too much into my reply. I'm capable of looking things up in my own time - thank you for your offer to help me, though - I was wondering whether you were summarizing a single source. You made it clear that you were not.
I thought I thanked you and moved on, but it seems I've pissed you off. Sorry, guess the curt and literal HackerNewsSpeak is rubbing off on me.
Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
#180Only discuss dark mode in coding, there are so many famous dark themes, but most of them are not suitable for use at night, for instance: nord, dracula, vscode's github dark, vscode's github dimmed dark(but it is perfect in the github's website, some key differences between them), all vscode's built-in dark themes and so on.
They're terrible, because they use very bright colors for highlight or improper contrast or author's aesthetics:
1. The bright color in dark mode just like a car coming to you in the dark stabbing your eyes with its huge headlights.
2. The improper contrast may be that they do not turn on the lights at night?
3. The essence of code is text, the readability of text is always the first, aesthetics is secondary, the nord theme is elegant and clean, I like it but I will never use it for reading or coding.
Dark mode is not intended for you to use in a purely dark environment, we need light at night even if you don't believe in god.
Here are some positive examples: "Atom One Dark Theme" and "Solarized Dark Vim" in vscode, jetbrains Darcula(not dracula, which is the object of criticism above).
So before answering the question of the title, we need to think: What should a correctly implemented dark mode look like?