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Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
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Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
#52While I also prefer dark mode overall, the majority of dark editor color schemes strain my eyes more than light ones. Primarily this is because they use really bright saturated colors or solid white text on dark backgrounds, which makes my eyes strain as if they are looking at LED headlights during a night drive. OS X uses nice muted yet distinct colors on both ends of the brightness spectrum. I wish I could find an…
Yes. SOLID white #ffffff on black #000000 is a rough scheme. The whites need to be muted a bit so they're light grey basically.
I used grey on black for many years but recently switched to pure white. It is much easier to read.
I have my monitors set fairly dim, about 120cd/m^2. This is what most colorspaces expect the whitepoint to be, but it is very dim compared to the maximum amount of light a monitor can put out. It is about 12/100 on my monitor.
https://hub.displaycal.net/forums/topic/what-monitor-brightn...
Anyway, my point here is that #ffffff is not any sort of color you can see, merely a number that represents the maximum possible amount of red, green, and blue. If that's too much light, you can turn it down. You can also play with gamma curves to change the relative intensities down to pure black. Some people use 2.2 in dark rooms and 2.4 for "normal" indoor illumination.
Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
#53I think the rise of dark mode is mostly related to really good displays. Dark mode looks like shit on CRTs and even older flat panels with poor contrast.
And OLEDs in particular, where black stops transmitting light at all. (And saves power, too.)
And non-OLEDs by exception, where black means shining a light at a black surface for maximum device heating.
Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
#54People like novelty. Dark mode is something new in UX design. I'm not sure I'd read into it any more than that until a few more years pass.
New? Never used DOS, a terminal, or a custom dark theme on Windows XP?
Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
#55Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
#56I'm definitely in the camp that light / dark mode should match the time of day or ambient light level. I love having "light mode" in the morning, but at night I always prefer dark mode. But this is because I have a huge amount of ambient light in the room in the day, and at night I have none. Dark mode is unreadable to me when the bright sun is shining on a monitor. Not so with light mode.
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#57I don't know many people my age who can still handle dark mode. It was easy for me many years ago. I looked at command lines all day and no problem. Now I see blurry lines for 10 minutes all around me if I have to spend any length of time in a command line interface, or look at an article in dark mode. This is, unfortunately, an accessibility issue, not a design issue.
I'm older, my eyes are getting pretty bad, and I have to have dark mode. This is why data on this is important.
Much of it depends on the room you’re in currently.
Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
And OLEDs in particular, where black stops transmitting light at all. (And saves power, too.)
Heck yeah. Totally agree. For my app I'm working on dark true dark modes and then try to do true dark/true black on mobile. Black looks much better on mobile IMO ...
Neat tidbit that I learned while working on dark mode at my company. Don't use true black. It looks amazing on OLED screens at rest but it results in a weird sluggish appearance when scrolling. This is because there is a lag time between pixels going from off to on.
The material team at Google made a blog post about it which I recommend going through: https://material.io/design/color/dark-theme.html
The quote around the OLED: "On OLED screens, turning pixels on and off can cause a delay when the screen is scrolled, making the pixels blur."
As an example, the facebook messenger app uses a true black background and the delay is _very_ noticeable.
Re: Dark Mode by Default – 95% of People Prefer Dark over Light Mode
#59I find default dark mode all of the day super depressing but later at night I find it easier to use with the lights out. So the balance iOS uses for auto enabling dark mode to me is pretty good. It would be nice if more websites would allow me to use it but at least reader mode supports it.
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#60URL goes to Localhost, assuming they meant o have https://getpolarized.io/2019/11/25/Dark-Mode-Should-Be-The-D...