Some Thoughts on Dark Mode: jayeless.net
@jayeless @leonp @AlanGMarz Jessica wrote:
>I canāt stand most layouts that put bright text on dark backgrounds, so I donāt use dark mode.
Iāve certainly noticed over recent years that most sites now use some approximation of black text on a white background. I find it (relatively) boring and samey but, more to the point, Iād just like to get away from the āprinted pageā metaphor. So, Iām generally guilty of using light coloured text on a darker background. I hope that people donāt find it hard to read but I think that font weight, line length and line height make more of a difference to readability. And thereās always Reader View.
@leonp Thanks for the comment. Iāll think about the contrast. Iāve considered darkening the background a little bit but itās so easy to mess things up that Iām cautious about changing things.
@leonp Thank you. I had no idea CSS had that feature, and it looks interesting, although still not quite as detailed as letting people set their own preferred UI colours in a setting. The spottiness of browser implementations also poses an issue, as you say.
@Alangmarz When I visit your blog itās set to light mode by default, so I hadnāt even noticed! š Itās great to give options to people though, I think, and ālight grey on dark greyā shouldnāt be too high-contrast for a dark mode.
@artkavanagh I had been going to talk a little more about the āsameynessā of much of the modern web, but it wasnāt really about dark mode so I took it outā¦ I do agree though, itās refreshing to see some people doing more unique things than the one-column black-on-white (even if I donāt have an issue with that kind of layout per seā¦ itās just that itās everywhere now).