Dark Mode YOUR LIFE...#Helpful Post

rk mode has swept over the internet

like a dark-gray tidal wave with hints

of dark blue nowadays whether you're on

reddit Twitter YouTube or basically

anything else even our forum there's

probably some sort of option to change

the color scheme to match the black void

in your soul but is it really possible

to dark mode every aspect of your

digital life and why would you want to

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a huge reason that people use dark mode

is because they say that reading white

text on a dark background is easier on

the eyes and this is especially true at

night when the ambient light is low but

that subjective analysis actually goes

against a lot of the conventional wisdom

for years monitor manufacturers have

boasted of brighter and brighter

displays and according to both

traditional UI design guidelines and

studies that rate the readability of

various combinations of text and

background colors dark text on a white

background is still the number one most

readable configuration and indeed as

humans spend more and more of their time

staring at screens it has become

apparent that the conventional wisdom

isn't always the best thing for our eyes

scientists are now studying new

conditions like digital eye strain and

computer vision syndrome finding that

large amounts of time spent looking at

screens can contribute to sleeplessness

headaches dry eyes and blurred vision

and other studies have found that

reading black text on a white background

can even contribute to increase myopia

aka nearsightedness so then onto ways to

lessen the strain on your eyes now one

way is called night mode and this is

usually a setting on your monitor or on

your device that attempts to filter out

or reduce the blue light that your

screen is emitting making it less likely

to disrupt your circadian rhythm causing

you to unintentionally spend the whole

night going down a wikipedia black hole

but night mode is different from dark

mode dark mode is not a filter so much

as it's a color scheme or a theme that

can be applied either to a specific

application or in some cases even

system-wide so what this means is that

while it can improve comfort it doesn't

necessarily have the sleep benefits of

night mode and in brightly lit

environments it can actually strain your

eyes in

exactly the same way that a bright

screen can in a dark room also with dark

mode the implementation depends heavily

on the developer and not all dark modes

are made equal okay then so you're ready

to take the plunge and dark mode your

life let's start with Windows 10 Windows

has actually had theme support for a

very long time does anyone else remember

window blinds no anyway

now there's a handy option right in the

color settings to switch to the dark

default app mode this will make built-in

windows apps like settings calculator

and alarms almost fully black now it

might also automatically apply to photos

movies and groove music but if it

doesn't you can go into those app

settings and switch it on manually File

Explorer still doesn't have dark mode

support so you can expect sudden retina

searing light if you dare to browse see

but that is supposed to be coming in the

October update so Microsoft does still

have some work to do but if you don't

like the built-in dark mode they also

have the option for you to customize

Windows as high contrast settings to

basically create your own but even what

I said just now assuming it all goes

perfectly is only the built-in Microsoft

apps I mean who spends their whole day

using those what about the one app that

people probably use the most their web

browser

well edge and Firefox both have built in

dark themes and while there is no

official dark mode for Chrome the

browser's theme and extension support

mean that you can essentially kind of

tack one on so there's a category page

for dark themes in the Chrome Web Store

and popular ones include material

incognito dark and more fie on dark with

the former being our pick but a theme

just changes the toolbar websites are

still going to present themselves

normally so some more tweaking is

required now a lot of websites have

built in dark modes including Twitter

YouTube reddit the line is tech tips

forum and Gmail's inbox actually

although here

for that last one daring to actually

open an email will still blind you as

for the rest of the web you can install

the dark reader extension which is also

available for Firefox and Safari on Mac

OS it analyzes colors and tries to make

webpages look like an official dark mode

with some settings available for

customization as well it solves Gmail's

dark mode problem but it can also cause

some glitchyness and delayed loading at

times thankfully you can actually teach

it to enable or disable itself

automatically site by site now on to

another popular app Microsoft Office

there is an official dark mode or dark

theme found in the settings but it sucks

it doesn't affect the actual page color

you will have to go to design bank page

color for that and if you dare to make

comments add markups to a page or try to

highlight anything you will quickly

discover some of its many flaws if

you're a Mac OS user

well you no doubt already know about

Mojave is dark mode it's got a number of

customization options and it affects all

of the OSS built in apps then for

everything else the Handy website dark

mode list has a directory of a ton of

Mac OS apps that support dark mode also

if you install a third-party app like

night owl or shifty you can customize

and even automate dark modes to turn on

and off depending on the time of day iOS

is where things start to get really

interesting though so Apple added a

feature in the iOS accessibility

settings called Smart invert colors

which does exactly what it sounds like

it inverts the colors in every app but

it also analyzes the screen to skip over

stuff like icons and images the result

is something that's actually pretty dang

close to a true system-wide dark mode

although you might not like the way that

it makes some apps look like Google Maps

fortunately Apple thought of that and

you can assign the mode to turn on or

off when you triple click the power

button pretty awesome

what is not quite as awesome is androids

implementation of dark mode now Google

finally added a dark mode option but it

only a

quick settings the app drawer and maybe

the contacts and phone app notifications

and the full Settings app remain light

which is pretty irritating you can

change individual apps to dark mode

phone messages YouTube news maps that is

in navigation mode Google Play games

Authenticator G board and the Google

discover feed but your mileage may vary

that is still not working on Riley's

pixel now Android does have an invert

colors option but it literally just

inverts the colors with no

post-processing to preserve images so it

really sucks

there is the substratum engine an app

that enables more robust theming support

but it requires that you root your

device on all versions of Android except

Oreo so obviously there are some

trade-offs with dark mode not the least

of which being that from a UI design

standpoint it is more difficult to make

it look good and there's still work to

be done to the point where I could see

people just opting not to bother if it's

gonna be this much of a hassle but aside

from everything we've talked about so

far with respect to improved comfort

there are some other benefits as well so

for example if you're on a mobile device

you could actually realize measurable

battery savings at their Android dev

summit Google said that using dark mode

in the YouTube app on an OLED screen

could reduce your battery usage by as

much as 40% though it should be noted

that this was at maximum brightness oh

right I guess Riley didn't write an

outro for this I guess that wasn't the

maximum brightest idea ha ha ha oh yeah

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