Comment by Krasnol | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Krasnol | Hacker News Reader

I don't believe the (recent) move in customers for requesting dark mode in pages, programs and apps allows for that broad statement:

> Vision research has shown that humans prefer dark-on-light.

There are obviously quite many humans who don't. Even if it's scientifically better or god knows what.

I do that. Prefer light-on-dark. Everywhere. I want to paint it black! It's not a hip, style thing. I'm not hip or stylish. I just hate the white and as a day moves on, my hate for that becomes greater. And yes I know about the programs that make your screen brightness lower. I have it on my home PC (and I don't like the yellowish tone...but it's better than nothing I guess). I can't have it on my work PC.

If I look at a white background I get eye strain and headaches. And if I look at a co workers screen while standing I can’t read the text. But with dark background I don’t get eye strain and headaches.

I always hated the bright background on computers. The green or amber old PC screens were better. The first program for inverting the colors I wrote on my first homecomputer, Atari ST. Since then I always look for something handy to switch to dark mode on my computers, even if they don't have a built in way of doing it. The one I'm using now is f.lux, working good enough for me. I can let it run normal colors when I start up some art program so I get correct colors and automatically switch back to red when I go to the darkmode editor. I also make sure I turn down the brightness on the screen as much as possible since that is a bright lamp shining at you for 8 hours per day.

My eyes are deteriorating with age too so this is getting more and more important. That blue light is not good for your retina. There are glasses with filter so you get the blue filtered out everywhere, might be something to look into soon I guess.

I'd suggest trying Dark Reader extension for your browser. It's a life-saver for me.

Wow thank you. I've been fiddling around with Stylus for the pages I use regularly but this is a simpler solution for them all.

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