> Honest limits
…and it’s slop.
Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
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Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, use it responsibly. Of course people won't, it's the internet, but a skilled designer may use it to highlight a word or an accent to draw your eye. It can be tricky in dense interfaces to draw focus to something (little tooltips or big buttons aren't the best answers). This is just another tool in the toolbox.
It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.
Dimming the entire display is not how HDR works especially on OLED phone displays.
If you are not outside in bright sunlight it’s almost certain that your screen is not at its highest brightness in the first place.
All HDR is doing is adding more range between the darkest element and the brightest element.
I.e., if you go to this webpage and set your screen brightness to maximum, the HDR effect visibly goes away because you’re already telling your screen to maximize brightness everywhere. Put the screen brightness at 50% and the HDR effect is visible: the bright parts are brighter.
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.
Dimming the entire display is not how HDR works especially on OLED phone displays. If you are not outside in bright sunlight it’s almost certain that your screen is not at its highest brightness in the first place. All HDR is doing is adding more range between the darkest element and the brightest element. I.e., if you go to this webpage and set your screen brightness to maximum, the HDR effect visibly goes away beca…
Just tested it, everything but the bright dimmed. That’s very annoying. On an iPhone 14 Pro…
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#64> Every social network strips these tags except the worst one > Clearly we need more of it I do not in fact want sites trying to get around my display preferences to post their visual presence on screen.
If you own an HDR display then your display preference was to be able to display HDR. Settings > Accessibility > Display Text & Size > Reduce White Point
I own an HDR screen to display HDR content *when and where I want it*. It has significant value in photography for example. But I certainly don’t want to be looking at hdr ads.
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#65This is why we can't have nice things.
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you own an HDR display then your display preference was to be able to display HDR. Settings > Accessibility > Display Text & Size > Reduce White Point
I own an HDR screen to display HDR content *when and where I want it*. It has significant value in photography for example. But I certainly don’t want to be looking at hdr ads.
I witnessed my first HDR mobile game banner ads recently and it’s horrible and should honestly be illegal or something
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#67> Every social network strips these tags except the worst one > Clearly we need more of it I do not in fact want sites trying to get around my display preferences to post their visual presence on screen.
Maybe it would be more acceptable if you added louder 24-bit music to the logo?
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
We found that user engagement was substantially increased by making the home page just rapidly flicker between red and green. Some users stared at it for hours!
Didn't worked so well for the Pokémon show.
Pokemon is the most valuable franchise IP on the planet. Maybe it did work well.
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#69> Every social network strips these tags except the worst one > Clearly we need more of it I do not in fact want sites trying to get around my display preferences to post their visual presence on screen.
If you own an HDR display then your display preference was to be able to display HDR. Settings > Accessibility > Display Text & Size > Reduce White Point
Impressive, wrong on both counts.
(1) HDR display (e.g. you bought a macbook/iphone) doesn’t mean you want random videos in the instagram feed to be full brightness despite setting your screen brightness to minimum in a dark room and (2) reducing white point just darkens stuff across the display, it doesn’t disable the thing people are complaining about.
Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.
I saw a restaurant on Uber Eats with a HDR enhanced image. The whole screen felt dim but I thought it was just me. How can it dim the whole screen?
I’d assume it’s the display manager dimming sdr content to have sufficient brightness range for hdr content.