Lett Osprey   🍉 Mar 14

As my eyes get old, I find myself switching away from dark mode...

I met dark mode quite early in #developer tools, #IDE, and instantly fell for it. Highlighting different bits of the source code with different colors makes it easier to interpret, dark mode made it easier to see the the color variation than regular mode.

This might be the reason why devs swapped early.

But the notion that this isn't good for our eyes feels more and more true the older my eyes get. Our ability to focus properly on "near objects" worsen with age, this is why progressive glasses are a thing, and "eye comfort" start to trump other things.

"Dark mode can cause accessibility issues" feels more and more true. I find I can lower brightness a lot more, or have a much higher "eyesaver" mode on the screen with light mode.

I find myself longing a bit for no backlight e-ink screens, but for anything else than ebook size, those are too pricey.

Anyway, point being, dark mode may not be as good for us as we think...

#DarkMode

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@lettosprey I never liked dark mode. I wonder if part of that is that already a long time ago I encountered the Solarized color scheme, which is not only nice to look at but also engineered for good contrast. So the part of "dark mode made it easier to see the the color variation than regular mode" was not really something I had to deal with since then.
Mar 14 at 12:09pmWeb