Why is EVERYONE Switching to DARK MODE?
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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876 words · ~4 min read
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have you ever been working late at night on a report because you've spent the
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entire day screwing around and found the incessantly white background of your
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word processor and your web browser to be unbearable well indeed we're staying
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in front of our screens later and later into the night these days which is why
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today we're honoring our first unsung
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hero of tech dark mode oftentimes it isn't obvious
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whether an app or a program features a dark mode and it's often a little
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unassuming option buried in a menu somewhere but for those of you who are
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night owls you'll know that it works by reversing the usual color scheme of your
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Windows putting light-colored text on a dark background but it isn't as simple
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as just inverting the colors on a web page and calling it a day and you can
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see this if you have a browser extension that applies a dark mode as some
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elements on the page often don't look as nice while other ones such as images
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won't invert or dim properly so coding a
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good looking dark mode that is specific to a certain website often requires a
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fair bit of finesse however this often ends up being worth
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it as dark mode ends up delivering quite a few benefits you see it's pretty
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common these days for phones and computers to have a built-in night mode
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to reduce blue light you can learn more about that up here but the basic idea is
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that blue light from your screens can affect your ability to properly fall
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asleep so night mode reduces blue light emissions by giving everything a
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yellowish or reddish tinge and this might not be a big deal if
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you're just trying to read text but it can result in nearly everything else
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looking noticeably discolored and that's where dark mode can be advantageous
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particularly on phones many smartphones these days use OLED screens which don't
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require a backlight like a standard tv or computer monitor would so any fully
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black areas of an app in dark mode would just have their pixels turned completely
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off so much less light ends up assaulting your eyes and although you
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won't get this effect if you're using a regular monitor as you'll still have its
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entire backlight emitting blue light dark mode can still make things much
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easier to look at during the night if you don't have another way to reduce eye
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strain such as bias lighting but it isn't just about making screens
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easier on the eyes on those phones with OLED screens that we just mentioned
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having fewer pixels illuminated means that dark mode can extend your battery
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life as having your brightness turned up is a notorious battery hog leading some
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people to run their apps in dark mode even during the daytime in fact google
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claimed a few years ago that having a predominantly white screen can use up to
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six times as much battery as a predominantly black one on the original
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pixel so it might be worth switching to dark mode if you find yourself
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consistently fighting poor battery life Android currently offers options to
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enable dark mode on frequently used apps like phone and messages and iOS has a
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smart invert colors feature that switches apple apps to a dark mode
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pretty elegantly and also works with third-party apps with varying degrees of
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success on the desktop side of things you can enable a dark theme in Windows
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10 that can tone down the excessive white of the settings menu and file
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explorer so although dark modes aren't universally present yet it's great to
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see developers putting some thought into saving our eyes and that's why it's the
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first unsung hero of tech and speaking
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of saving your eyes check out the invisible shield with eye safe you
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already know that bright screens that emit blue light can both strain your
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eyes and disrupt your sleep and we're spending 10 or even more hours a day
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staring at screens on average so why not
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protect your eyes their glass plus vision guard with eyesafe technology
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filters harmful blue light while maintaining the color performance of
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your display so the way it does this is that instead of blocking entire parts of
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the visible spectrum vision guard will only remove the most
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harmful high-energy blue light for superior color reproduction in fact it
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adheres to the tuv rhineland standard for maintaining color quality glass plus
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vision guard is available for both iphone and ipad so love your eyes check
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