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4. If by dark mode you mean a web site with white type on a dark...

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Thu Sep 9, 2021, 04:48 PM

Sep 2021

background, that's the most taxing on the eyes. In my years in art direction/publishing, the best practice is black type on a white background.

That's why 99 percent of web sites and printed publications are like that. For artistic reasons, copy is sometimes reversed out of colored/black backgrounds but to have the majority of pages or websites white type out of a black background, readers would eventually tire of the eye strain and stop visiting or subscribing to the publication.

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View Websites In Dark Mode With The Dark Reader Browser Extension. [View all] ItsjustMe Sep 2021 OP

Thank you. TexasTowelie Sep 2021 #1

Not sure it qualifies as "eye-care" HuskyOffset Sep 2021 #2

THANK YOU! hermetic Sep 2021 #3

If by dark mode you mean a web site with white type on a dark... brush Sep 2021 #4

Back in the 1990s FuzzyRabbit Sep 2021 #5

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