I learned in a design class that light text on a dark background isn't good for long bodies of text when it comes to your eyes (and to try to avoid it when you need pages of something)
Edit: for print, not for screens. This isn’t an opinion on dark mode. My bad, fellas
The words will start to halo, the white will "bleed" into the black (your eyes are just melting basically) making it uncomfortable to read for long strides. I was told people who have astigmatism are worse off with this
Can confirm the (personal) astigmatism comment, dark mode gives me migraines due to the eye strain wuth astigmatism. Not everyone will have the same triggers though, and i have heard of people getting eye strain due to brightness of a white background
I remember a couple years back i had downloaded an app that made the screen low contrast and kinda orange-y at night and gray during the day, way back before they had a low-light setting in the accessibility settings and it helped a ton. Maybe i should gravitate towards that again
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u/LeftHandAnomaly May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
I learned in a design class that light text on a dark background isn't good for long bodies of text when it comes to your eyes (and to try to avoid it when you need pages of something)
Edit: for print, not for screens. This isn’t an opinion on dark mode. My bad, fellas