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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Replying to @nikolasklein @rsms
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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Replying to @mwichary @nikolasklein
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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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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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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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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Replying to @rsms
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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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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Replying to @mwichary
My understanding is that black on white didn’t become the norm until MS Windows (first as the Alto I think, and Mac OS 1 was the first commercially successful “positive”, but Windows really made it the de-facto imho.)
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Yep! I think you’re right. That would make it early 1990s, and the displays were... I guess passable. :·) :low_radiation_svga_sticker:
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