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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Rasmus Andersson‏ @rsms 10 Nov 2019
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      Okay kids, bring on the strong arguments for why you rather live in the woods without electricity if you can’t have “dark mode”. Let’s hear it.

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    2. Niko‏ @nikolasklein 10 Nov 2019
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      Software is used in many different, diverse contexts. A lot of people might tend to or prefer to work in a dark environment. In those contexts, dark mode is a significantly better experience than bright interfaces.

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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      100% agree. I was working yesterday evening with my eyes tired (and my vision is still pretty good!), and I had to lower brightness every time I switched to Figma so it didn’t hurt my eyes. I had background light on in the room.

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    4. Rasmus Andersson‏ @rsms 10 Nov 2019
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      Computers used white on black long before they were even able to display black on white. Early CRTs were of a vector type and the background had to be black. I’m just saying that it’s hilarious that this old idea suddenly has a cool marketing name and rabid followers 😄

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    5. nina mehta  💌‏ @ninamehta 10 Nov 2019
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      The playa-hatin rabid followers is understandable but: 1. New rapid followers maybe weren't computing around CRT time, so it's new to them 2. Behavior and time spent on computers (persona/professional) today vs then is wildly different

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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      Yes, in addition to that display quality today is good enough that you can have subtle contrast changes and light-on-dark text is not a mess of fuzzy, fringing pixels like in the 1970s.

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    7. Rasmus Andersson‏ @rsms 10 Nov 2019
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      Some vector displays were really high res! I tried an original Asteroids arcade machine at an exhibition in Berlin and the detail was astonishing. (I know there was also a “raster” like use of vector displays which wasn't as detailed :–)https://youtu.be/w60sfReTsRA?t=22 …

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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      QuadraScans! I love those. But I meant more the halo around lit vectors/pixels, which all arcade displays shared. In offices, I believe it was a human factors catch 22: Halo was bad for ergonomics. Removing it meant sacrificing contrast, which was… bad for ergonomics. :·)

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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      I’m not really an expert on display history, but I think throughout 1970s, dark-on-light text was rarely attempted because the halo would just bleed into text too much?

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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      Only later with Mac, maybe NeXT, and then Windows in the 1990s… and non-CRT displays, of course. We got so excited about the desktop metaphor that we haven’t seen light-on-dark much before iPhone brought it half-back in 2007, in a very different world.

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      So I think part of the excitement is that to many people it does feel like a new thing! But if you put aside the marketing and excitement, I believe there are some genuine benefits…

      9:23 AM - 10 Nov 2019
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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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          …and the dark modes of today, while superficially similar to command lines of 1970s and 1980s, can be done much better and with much more thoughtfulness. Not that the last part’s always there. :·)

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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          (I’m actually sad those vector displays disappeared. I believe they were just a maintenance nightmare, and the hollow polygon aesthetic fell out of fashion, right?

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        2. Rasmus Andersson‏ @rsms 10 Nov 2019
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          What would be really interesting: Customization options in mass-market software. MS Windows, Firefox and Chrome are the only examples of mass-market software I can think of that offers pretty granular UI customization.

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 10 Nov 2019
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          I think that is a super interesting subject! I have not found a great treatment of it, but someone must have written about this, right?pic.twitter.com/MI5dYdNqiQ

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