This is the way.
I come into the office early in the morning when its still night and use the dark theme. When the sun comes out, I switch to light. Monitor brightness should blend into the surrounding light. Eye strain otherwise.
Seriously, the best option is whatever matches the brightness of your screen to its surroundings. I read about this decades ago and it eliminated screen fatigue for me.
If switching to dark mode works for you, great. When I worked on a PC in a well-lit office all day, I would open a program with a white background, hold up a blank white piece of paper next to the screen, and adjust the screen brightness until it looked about the same as the paper. I did this once or twice a week because I was near a set of picture windows and I was affected by weather and the seasons, but in a room with more artificial light it would be “set and forget”.
It seemed very dim at first, and several of my coworkers commented on it. It took a few days of resisting the urge to turn the brightness back up, but I got used to it and never went back.
My PC at home is currently set up in a partially shaded corner of a well-lit room, so I put a dim little light bar behind the screen to make the wall match the brightness of the screen and the rest of my desk/room.
Same and I don’t understand the obsession with dark stuff. If you have a dark background, you need to work in the dark in order to see the small whitish pixels of text. If you have a light theme, you just need to turn on the light, which is pretty much most of the daytime when you’re supposed to work.
Dark modes fucks with my eyes, whereas light mode forces me to use natural light or properly adjust my environment. Also I have a wide range of light colors to work with as the background. Dark mode is stuck to dark background on light text (grey or white, that’s all).
Anyway, I’m prepared to die for having such a strange opinion.
Naw, I’m with you. When I work for even a short time with dark mode, I see “ghost” images when I look away, like text has been imprinted on my eyes. I’m sure dark mode works for some people, but it sure doesn’t for me.
I use light theme, btw
PURGE THE HERETIC!
(TIL)
These are chaos space marines?
They look nice 😯
This are space marines. That arm, right bottom is Chaos.
I personally know one person who uses light theme.
He says that he prefers light theme with the brightness turned all the way down.
It’s good that it works for him, but that’s not my way.
Just here to give out support before you get reckt
I use a light theme during the day and a dark theme at night.
This is the way.
I come into the office early in the morning when its still night and use the dark theme. When the sun comes out, I switch to light. Monitor brightness should blend into the surrounding light. Eye strain otherwise.
Like that, but my computer does it for me automatically.
Seriously, the best option is whatever matches the brightness of your screen to its surroundings. I read about this decades ago and it eliminated screen fatigue for me.
If switching to dark mode works for you, great. When I worked on a PC in a well-lit office all day, I would open a program with a white background, hold up a blank white piece of paper next to the screen, and adjust the screen brightness until it looked about the same as the paper. I did this once or twice a week because I was near a set of picture windows and I was affected by weather and the seasons, but in a room with more artificial light it would be “set and forget”.
It seemed very dim at first, and several of my coworkers commented on it. It took a few days of resisting the urge to turn the brightness back up, but I got used to it and never went back.
My PC at home is currently set up in a partially shaded corner of a well-lit room, so I put a dim little light bar behind the screen to make the wall match the brightness of the screen and the rest of my desk/room.
First time I’ve ever heard of anyone actually using time-of-day-dependent themes
Same and I don’t understand the obsession with dark stuff. If you have a dark background, you need to work in the dark in order to see the small whitish pixels of text. If you have a light theme, you just need to turn on the light, which is pretty much most of the daytime when you’re supposed to work.
Dark modes fucks with my eyes, whereas light mode forces me to use natural light or properly adjust my environment. Also I have a wide range of light colors to work with as the background. Dark mode is stuck to dark background on light text (grey or white, that’s all).
Anyway, I’m prepared to die for having such a strange opinion.
There is one, UND EXACTLY ONE reason for darkmode. If you have an OLED, it does increase marginally battery life
Should also extend screen lifetime
Naw, I’m with you. When I work for even a short time with dark mode, I see “ghost” images when I look away, like text has been imprinted on my eyes. I’m sure dark mode works for some people, but it sure doesn’t for me.