[HN Gopher] Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
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       Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)
        
       Author : eBombzor
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-12-11 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | hosteur wrote:
       | I primarily use dark mode when I am in the dark or in a dimly lit
       | room. Having any light blasted right into my eyes hurts. And
       | ruins my night vision. And also messes with my sleep.
        
         | ramraj07 wrote:
         | It's almost like too tongue in cheek that you write exactly
         | like the techbros the article talks about. Did you even try to
         | read the article?
         | 
         | I'm not sure I fully agree with the conclusion of it (the
         | volume of light does have an effect on your sleep cycle) but
         | otherwise most points in the article are valid. Anecdotal
         | techbro proclamations that dark mode is easier to read has been
         | categorically proven false. It's not easier to read and it's
         | not less strain on your eyes.
         | 
         | I think it's just better you keep your phone on light mode, and
         | realize it's just not good to look at a screen no matter what
         | when you're supposed to sleep. Do your deed as soon as possible
         | and hit the bed.
        
       | Paganitzu wrote:
       | This article seems to equate dark mode with white text on black
       | background. I tend to see dark kodes more complex than that,
       | specifically with yellow text on a dark background which is what
       | I tend to prefer. Ive always liked darcula themes for coding
       | because of the variety of contrasts are better for me.
        
         | Paganitzu wrote:
         | Worth noting I'm also red/green color blind, which might
         | matter.
        
       | mephitix wrote:
       | 100% agree with using night shift/flux.
       | 
       | But having a monitor on in the dark, even if I use flux/night
       | vision and even with low brightness physically hurts my eyes
       | compared to just using dark mode on my apps.
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | Last week I printed about 80 labels for boxes in my shop. About
       | half of the boxes are clear, and I used white labels with black
       | print. The other half of the boxes are black, so for those I used
       | black labels with white print. After the first couple it was
       | obvious that that black background labels were harder to read
       | from any distance. I bumped up the font and set them to bold, and
       | now they're about equally legible. I think it's the same on a
       | screen.
        
       | steve1977 wrote:
       | Having astigmatism, I definitely feel like text in dark mode is
       | harder to read than dark text on light background.
       | 
       | In regards to eye strain with light mode, what I found important
       | is to match screen brightness to ,,environmental brightness"
       | (don't know the proper term).
       | 
       | As a rule of thumb, when I put a white paper in front of a white
       | screen, the screen shouldn't illuminate the paper more than the
       | other lights in the room.
        
         | echelon wrote:
         | > ,,environmental brightness" (don't know the proper term)
         | 
         | Ambient. You were close, and that worked well enough!
        
       | stared wrote:
       | Not to be a sage here, but "every research is an average taken in
       | the past on other people".
       | 
       | What works for the average is likely a good starting point. It is
       | not necessarily the best for you and a given case (almost for
       | sure different from the experimental ones).
        
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