[HN Gopher] Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) ___________________________________________________________________ Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) Author : eBombzor Score : 23 points Date : 2022-12-11 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (kevquirk.com) (TXT) w3m dump (kevquirk.com) | 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). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-11 23:00 UTC)