It looks cool and makes me feel like a hacker. I mean, just look at it. It looks fucking cool. You can't deny it.
Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
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#42"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." I thought this was a myth. I looked into it last year and found that power consumption was (roughly) proportional to brightness. At a meta-level, I'm surprised that something with so factual (and testable) an answer can still not be settled.
LCD screens are really cool! My dad had a half-broken one at some point, and we peeled the outer layer partly off. It was pure white underneath. Just constant white light, no matter what was being displayed.
But if you looked at the pure white with polarized sunglasses, you could see the image! The pixels don't turn on and off, they just change polarization. And there's a thin layer that blocks light of one polarization, but not the other.
EDIT: Wikipedia has a picture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display#/media/...
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#43They taught us this in advertising. White text scatters over the iris on a dark background, so it’s harder to read the copy. I’ve even read it in UX articles. It was amusing to get out of school and into the tech industry to find dark mode everywhere. Granted, I use it too. Both my terminal and editor have dark themes. I’m not really sure why. The terminal isn’t really a big deal to me. I could go either way there. B…
I recall the argument for a dark theme in editors/IDEs was to make it visually easier to see color differences in code syntax. With a white background, the white light competes with the colors. Where as if you're reading an article on the web, you'll really just need to discern the text and not so much the color.
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#44Personally, I enjoy changing colourschemes based on where I'm working.
Outside on the balcony? Xterm/vim with white background. 11pm in the livingroom? Xterm/vim with dark background.
I usually have a browser open when I'm coding, so being able to invert the colours is useful for me. If dark mode isn't dark enough, I wrote a Qt script to overlay 50% black overtop of all screens. Does anyone do this to preserve battery life?
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#45At least the dark grey type on a light grey background seems to have gone away. Mostly. Maybe because if you go too far in that direction, Google's crawler decides you're keyword-stuffing with invisible text.
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#46They taught us this in advertising. White text scatters over the iris on a dark background, so it’s harder to read the copy. I’ve even read it in UX articles. It was amusing to get out of school and into the tech industry to find dark mode everywhere. Granted, I use it too. Both my terminal and editor have dark themes. I’m not really sure why. The terminal isn’t really a big deal to me. I could go either way there. B…
For a light color theme with a slightly different take than usual, I would recommend Flatwhite. The differentiating idea behind it is that for dark syntax themes, it makes sense to have the foreground of text be different colors. In contrast, for light syntax themes, it makes sense to have the background of text be different colors. Atom: https://github.com/biletskyy/flatwhite-syntax Sublime Text 3: https://github.co…
Ooo, I like this. This seems like a close-ish replacement in VSCode but the pic doesn't even exist: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esz.them...
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#47Part of the reason I like dark mode is because it looks "computery".
I grew with Hercules Monochrome monitors (green on black), and that's always been a comfortable color scheme for me.
In my Turbo Pascal days, I began to have an affinity for white text over blue backgrounds.
I believe it was during the days of Windows 3.0 (1990) was when white backgrounds became the norm, and we've been stuck with that for over 3 decades. Not even the early X Windows programs had white backgrounds -- Mosaic and Netscape had grey backgrounds and muted chrome.
I think dark backgrounds evoke nostalgia (at least among some of us).
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#48I’m not a computer algorithm. I like what I like, and dark mode makes me like being on my computer when I have to be.
Re: Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
#49Part of the reason I like dark mode is because it looks "computery". I grew with Hercules Monochrome monitors (green on black), and that's always been a comfortable color scheme for me. In my Turbo Pascal days, I began to have an affinity for white text over blue backgrounds. I believe it was during the days of Windows 3.0 (1990) was when white backgrounds became the norm, and we've been stuck with that for over 3 de…
I recall Word having a “white text on blue” option for quite a while as comfort to the millions moving over from WordPerfect. Blue backgrounds and Borland themes definitely evoke nostalgia.
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#50Personally I appreciate the ability to switch color modes.
I've found that when reading articles or text I like dark text on a white background. So news apps are kept in light mode.
For development i like that darker themes allows me to see the syntax highlighting better. Plus my partner loves the "rainbow text" and knows when I'm working "matrix time" :)