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The Dark Mode craze may do more harm than good – this is why
The hot new topic in terms of smartphone and computer software right now is Dark Mode, an optional system look that flips the colors of an app or operating system to make it, well, dark. Instagram has a dark mode, as does Chrome, WhatsApp, Gmail, and iOS 13, and it seems apps and developers are tripping over themselves to create a new dark mode for their software.
There's just one problem which none of these hard-working people seem to have considered that makes their work redundant, and the attention they've taken from other projects will be in vain: all in all, dark mode looks totally awful.
That's not a dig at any dark mode in particular, and no developers have implemented it particularly poorly (well, apart from Android 10). But in the rush for developers to see if they could implement dark mode on their apps, no-one asked if they should - and taken stock of how it might be reworked better rather than just following the trend.
Beyond that, there are legitimate reasons why developers shouldn't be focusing on Dark Mode. Here's why the Dark Mode craze is just crazy.
So dear soylentils, do you use dark mode on your applications, and why or why not?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by BK on Saturday October 26 2019, @08:10PM (2 children)
It turns out that light mode – dark text on a white background - also looks terrible. Especially this new thing with gray text on a white background. It’s like tearing ones eyeballs out. Or reading serious work in comic sans.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Sunday October 27 2019, @03:40AM (1 child)
No, it's worse. A lot of websites today use gray on gray. I've used a color picker to check. I can't understand the logic of it either. It strains the eyes until it's unreadable.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 27 2019, @04:47AM
Oh, my personal favorite for awful... a survey site that uses pale teal atop pale grey. (To be fair it may be pale teal on white on the dev's screen, but that's not really any better.) The teal sorta glows against the grey and makes this aliased-looking blur.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.