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I’d recommend this classic for a read: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic...
Tl;dr dark text on a light background is usually easiest to read. Note in dark mode, you often see font bolded to compensate for the readability drop.
Almost ever major website dosent use dark backgrounds for text for a reason.
I personally like a dark mode UI (menu bars, dock, and so on), so it’s less distracting, but light mode for content.
Without taking an extreme or absolutist stance on this issue, I generally agree with the author here. Dark mode should be reserved for after sunset and before sunrise. The eyes are adapted to see daylight levels of light during daytime. If your ambient lighting and screen don't match this, then you're not using your body in the way it's evolved to function. What we need more of are screens with anti-glare and a wide…
>evan, I agree. Hate the dark. Dark is hard to see. Light is easy to see. I use light at every opportunity. Dark partially grew out of an interest in saving battery power on early oled screens, but dev's noticed a certain demographic drawn towards the dark look.
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Wikipedia, you can solve this with one line of code. Just changing one variable name... Seriously, the fact that light vs dark is even an issue is silly. It only exists out of laziness and that's what we should really be mad about
While I agree that it's not as complicated as some make it out to be, let's not pretend it's just one variable change.
> let's not pretend it's just one variable change.
wow that was a huge waste of time, why write this or post it?
Because the internet is for everyone, and it turns out that this content resonated with enough people for them to even upvote it enough to end up on the front page.
wow that was a huge waste of time, why write this or post it?
Because so many sites insist on shoving dark mode down their readers' throats, despite decades of reliable, repeatable human-interface research that has unequivocally demonstrated that it's the wrong thing to do. Any other questions, or are you short on time to waste yourself? Edit due to rate-limiting: It should, but apparently doesn't, go without saying that using a terminal is very different from reading a web pag…
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Because so many sites insist on shoving dark mode down their readers' throats, despite decades of reliable, repeatable human-interface research that has unequivocally demonstrated that it's the wrong thing to do. Any other questions, or are you short on time to waste yourself? Edit due to rate-limiting: It should, but apparently doesn't, go without saying that using a terminal is very different from reading a web pag…
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Because so many sites insist on shoving dark mode down their readers' throats, despite decades of reliable, repeatable human-interface research that has unequivocally demonstrated that it's the wrong thing to do. Any other questions, or are you short on time to waste yourself? Edit due to rate-limiting: It should, but apparently doesn't, go without saying that using a terminal is very different from reading a web pag…
Is your terminal black-background-white-text?
(removed my snark edit since you were apparently rate-limited but my point stands)
Without taking an extreme or absolutist stance on this issue, I generally agree with the author here. Dark mode should be reserved for after sunset and before sunrise. The eyes are adapted to see daylight levels of light during daytime. If your ambient lighting and screen don't match this, then you're not using your body in the way it's evolved to function. What we need more of are screens with anti-glare and a wide…