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WIIIIIIIITCH!

Just kidding ;D

I'm actually studying my students' color theme preferences for lecture slides and I'm seeing that while a majority do prefer dark mode, there is noticeable chunk that still prefer light mode. I think some of it may involve time of viewing, but that is another research question I haven't explored quite yet.

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In the daytime I prefer light mode, and at night I prefer dark mode. I think it's somewhat odd to have a preference inconsistent with the time of day.

how long have you been coding? I felt the same in my younger days but discovered over the years that dark mode much more gentle on my eyes.

Not the author, but I’ve been coding since the 90s and also ended up switching between light and dark depending on the time of day. The trick is to also adjust screen brightness. With light background you can lower overall brightness. With dark background if you’re in a well lit room, you have to increase brightness to the point where bright words on the screen actually shine too strongly in relation to the dark background. So it actually feels gentler when the background is light but screen brightness is dimmer overall.

Over 10 years. I used to be dark mode all the time, but in recent years I feel light mode in daytime is much clearer and doesn't clash with the ambient light which forces my eyes to strain more in daylight.

Indeed this is the way.

I also have variants of light and dark for different lighting conditions at night and day (particularly glare).

I actually went back from dark to light! Feels pretty good

I find it doesn't matter to me. Dark mode means I'm on a server 9/10 vis a vis code; otherwise I'm in notepad++ which is light mode.

I wish the colors on notepad++ were a little darker, and someday I need to figure out why the stock gentoo color scheme looks the best to me, and try and recreate it elsewhere.

I think universally light when using a projector! But maybe nowadays it's remote or big LCDs...

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