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Ed.Kloonk:

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--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 16, 2020, 02:09:26 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 01:58:35 am ---The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research.

When one reads dark text on a light background, the predominant percentage of screen area emitting bright light, causes one's pupils to contract, therefore affording a deeper depth of field, and one struggles far less to focus on the text. I explained that poorly, suffice it to say that "dark mode" is just a fad UNLESS it's night time and you're sleepy, and the brightness of the screen is too painful to your eyes, in which case... TURN OFF AND GO TO SLEEP!!

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It's got less to do with focus and more to do with contrast.

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I understand that, but it's the opposite of what the dark theme protagonists desire which actually seems to be the case - it's hugely in the mind, I believe.

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Maybe, but not in my case.

Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 01:58:35 am ---The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research.
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Ditto for the current trend to use sans serif fonts for body text in documents. It's supposed to be a more modern look, but research has shown that serif fonts are more readable and sans serif fonts should be reserved for headlines.

AnasMalas:

--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 01:58:35 am ---The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research.

When one reads dark text on a light background, the predominant percentage of screen area emitting bright light, causes one's pupils to contract, therefore affording a deeper depth of field, and one struggles far less to focus on the text. I explained that poorly, suffice it to say that "dark mode" is just a fad UNLESS it's night time and you're sleepy, and the brightness of the screen is too painful to your eyes, in which case... TURN OFF AND GO TO SLEEP!!

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Yeah, no. My eyes have been paining me all day for a while now, tried multiple eyedrops, nothing helped. I then switched everything to dark mode due to a friend's recommendation and now my eyes pain me way way less. I am not one to fall for placebo effects, I tried products made/imported by my father's company and was very quick to say that they are completely useless.

I am sitting in a brightly sun-lit garden as a type this. Upon seeing your reply I lowered my brightness and turned this add-on off (returned to the original theme), and at a brightness where the screen was legible my eyes started paining me in minutes...

Everyone is different. It is highly possible that a percentage of the population has some gene that makes them more sensitive to bright lights/screens. We dont have hard science, so we cant say dark mode is better, but we also cant say it is worse. I can only say that anecdotally it did help.

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on October 16, 2020, 04:19:10 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 01:58:35 am ---The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research.
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Ditto for the current trend to use sans serif fonts for body text in documents. It's supposed to be a more modern look, but research has shown that serif fonts are more readable and sans serif fonts should be reserved for headlines.

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Long video about fonts..

tooki:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on October 16, 2020, 04:19:10 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 01:58:35 am ---The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research.
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Ditto for the current trend to use sans serif fonts for body text in documents. It's supposed to be a more modern look, but research has shown that serif fonts are more readable and sans serif fonts should be reserved for headlines.

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It’s more complex than that: when only low-resolution output is available (like on traditional 72-96ppi computer displays and 144dpi thermal receipt printers), serifs hurt readability. On high-resolution output (like printers at 600dpi and up), they help. What’s a bit unclear — perhaps there have now been studies on this, I haven’t looked recently — is whether serifs help or hurt on medium-resolution output like high-dpi (~150ppi and up) displays, and printers in draft mode (150-300dpi, but often with gaps between dots).

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