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Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by masklinn »

dgellow wrote: post #34
embedding-shape wrote: post #29

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> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.

I think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer

On mac the OS remaps the brightness range when HDR content appears. The rest of the content literally and materially dims.

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by Grombobulous »

illiac786 wrote: post #64
Grombobulous wrote: post #60

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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.

How can we expect to give out a technical ability like HDR but then gatekeep it to only “artistically-valid” endeavors? Who is the arbiter of taste?

Ultimately, you choose what websites you go to, just like people who create websites choose how to present them.

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by [deleted] »

DauntingPear7 wrote: post #66
illiac786 wrote: post #64

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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

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Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by Grombobulous »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #69
Grombobulous wrote: post #60

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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.

I just figured out that low power mode also disables HDR and that’s a one-click toggle.

So to me the user has an off switch and the content creator also gets to express their creative freedom to use the feature or not.

If you don’t want to see HDR content you can do something else with your day. Nobody is holding us hostage to use our phones in a dark room or scroll Instagram.

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by [deleted] »

dawnerd wrote: post #63
Grombobulous wrote: post #62

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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…

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Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by fjlunky »

layer8 wrote: post #38
fjlunky wrote: post #11

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Pretty sure Fifth Star Labs’ Sky Guide iOS icon does this. Not the whole icon, just the stars in it. Hiding the app in a folder helps but I’m looking for a better alternative just because of this.

As a workaround, you can use a home screen shortcut to start the app. But I agree that app developers shouldn’t do this, or should at least provide an option to turn it off. (Some apps allow customizing the app icon color, so it seems that should be possible.)

That’s a good idea, I haven’t used the shortcuts feature. I think this app also abuses the ability to change the app icon to provide subtle animations - but there’s no option to turn it off or customise.

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by embedding-shape »

masklinn wrote: post #71
dgellow wrote: post #34

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I think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer

On mac the OS remaps the brightness range when HDR content appears. The rest of the content literally and materially dims.

Lol, so one HDR element on a website changes the entire desktop environment to be dimmer? :P Fun implementation.
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