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dark mode has swept over the internet

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like a dark grey tidal wave with hints

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of dark blue nowadays whether you're on reddit twitter youtube or basically

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anything else even our forum there's probably some sort of option to

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change the color scheme to match the black void in your soul but

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is it really possible to dark mode every aspect of your digital

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life and why would you want to

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below to learn more

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a huge reason that people use dark mode is because they say that reading white

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text on a dark background is easier on the eyes and this is especially true at

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night when the ambient light is low

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but that subjective analysis actually goes

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against a lot of the conventional wisdom

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for years monitor manufacturers have boasted of brighter and brighter

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displays and according to both traditional ui design guidelines and

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studies that rate the readability of various combinations of text and

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background colors dark text on a white background is still

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the number one most readable configuration and indeed as humans spend

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more and more of their time staring at screens it has become apparent that the

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conventional wisdom isn't always the best thing for our eyes scientists are

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now studying new conditions like digital

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eye strain and computer vision syndrome finding that large amounts of time spent

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looking at screens can contribute to sleeplessness headaches dry eyes and

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blurred vision and other studies have found that reading black text on a white

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background can even contribute to increased myopia aka nearsightedness so

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then on to ways to lessen the strain on your

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eyes now one way is called night mode and this is usually a setting

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on your monitor or on your device that attempts to filter out or reduce the

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blue light that your screen is emitting making it less likely to disrupt your

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circadian rhythm causing you to unintentionally spend the whole night

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going down a wikipedia black hole but night mode is different from dark mode

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dark mode is not a filter so much as it's a color scheme or a theme that can

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be applied either to a specific application or in some cases even system

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wide so what this means is that while it can improve comfort it doesn't

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necessarily have the sleep benefits of night mode and in brightly lit

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environments it can actually strain your eyes in exactly the same way that a

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bright screen can in a dark room also

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with dark mode the implementation depends heavily on the developer and not

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all dark modes are made equal okay then so you're ready to take the

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plunge and dark mode your life let's start with Windows 10. Windows has

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actually had theme support for a very long time does anyone else remember

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window blinds no oh bummer anyway now there's a handy

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option right in the color settings to switch to the dark default app mode this

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will make built-in Windows apps like settings calculator and alarms almost

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fully black now it might also

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automatically apply to photos movies and groove music but if it doesn't you can

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go into those app settings and switch it on manually file explorer still doesn't

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have dark mode support so you can expect sudden

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retina searing light if you dare to browse c

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but that is supposed to be coming in the october update so uh

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microsoft does still have some work to do but if you don't like the built-in

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dark mode they also have the option for you to customize Windows high contrast

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settings to basically create your own

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but even what i said just now assuming it all goes perfectly is only the built-in

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microsoft apps i mean who spends their

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whole day using those what about the one app that people probably use the most

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their web browser well edge and firefox both have built-in

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dark themes and while there is no official dark mode for chrome the

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browser's theme and extension support mean that you can essentially kind of

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tack one on so there's a category page for dark themes in the chrome web store

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and popular ones include material incognito dark and morpheon dark with

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the former being our pick but a theme just changes the toolbar websites are

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still going to present themselves normally so some more tweaking is

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required now a lot of websites have built in dark modes including twitter

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youtube reddit the Linus tech tips forum and

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gmail's inbox actually although

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curiously for that last one daring to actually open an email will still blind

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you as for the rest of the web you can install the dark reader extension which

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is also available for firefox and safari on macOS it analyzes colors and tries

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to make web pages look like an official dark mode with some settings available

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for customization as well it solves gmail's dark mode problem but it can

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also cause some glitchiness and delayed loading at times thankfully you can

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actually teach it to enable or disable itself automatically site by site

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now on to another popular app microsoft office there is an official

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dark mode or dark theme found in the settings but

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it sucks it doesn't affect the actual page color

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you will have to go to design then page color for that and if you dare to make

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comments add markups to a page or try to highlight anything you will quickly

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discover some of its many flaws if you're a macOS user well you no doubt

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already know about mojave's dark mode it's got a number of customization

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options and it affects all of the os's built-in apps then for everything else

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the handy website dark mode list has a directory of a ton of macOS apps that

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support dark mode also if you install a third-party app like night owl or shifty

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you can customize and even automate dark modes to turn on and off depending on

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the time of day iOS is where things start to get really interesting though

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so apple added a feature in the iOS accessibility settings called smart

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invert colors which does exactly what it sounds like it inverts the colors in

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every app but it also analyzes the screen to skip over

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stuff like icons and images the result

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is something that's actually pretty dang close to a true system-wide dark mode

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although you might not like the way that it makes some apps look like google maps

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fortunately apple thought of that and you can assign the mode to turn on or

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off when you triple click the power button pretty awesome

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what is not quite as awesome is Android's implementation of dark mode

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now google finally added a dark mode option but it only affects quick

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settings the app drawer and maybe the contacts and phone app

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notifications and the full settings app remain light which is pretty irritating

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you can change individual apps to dark mode phone messages youtube news maps

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that is in navigation mode google play games authenticator gboard and the

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google discover feed but your mileage may vary that is still not working on

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riley's pixel now Android does have an invert colors option but it literally

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just inverts the colors with no post processing to preserve images so it

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really sucks there is the substratum engine an app that enables more robust

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theming support but it requires that you root your device on all versions of

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Android except oreo so obviously there are some trade-offs with dark mode not

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the least of which being that from a ui design standpoint it is more difficult

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to make it look good and there's still work to be done to the point where i

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could see people just opting not to bother if it's going to be this much of

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a hassle but aside from everything we've talked

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about so far with respect to improved comfort there are some other benefits as

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well so for example if you're on a mobile device you could actually realize

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measurable battery savings at their Android dev summit google said

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that using dark mode in the youtube app on an OLED screen could reduce your

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battery usage by as much as 40 percent

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though it should be noted that this was at maximum brightness oh yeah right i

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guess riley didn't write an outro for this i guess that wasn't the

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maximum brightest idea

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oh yeah it's a good thing i have a writing staff

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