On May 5, 2018 8:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2018 07:25:16 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > New theme (something with a dark variant)?
> 
> Maintaining a theme that works good for all apps is very hard. I've
> never seen a dark theme that really worked and was well maintained. 
 
I'm not sure how relevant this still is, but I'd also highly advise against 
using a dark theme as default. It's great if there's a dark variant available 
for those that want to use it (like myself, using Blackbird currently), but 
it's not the best choice to make it the standard. 
 
I've also had some trouble making the dark theme work everywhere, some programs 
will display input fields dark and not change the text colour, giving you black 
text on a dark grey background and other small issues like that. 
 
However, the most important consideration is that a majority of users find dark 
text on bright backgrounds easier to read. A bright background forces the eye 
to focus and makes edge recognition easier, some people even have serious 
trouble reading bright text on dark backgrounds, because they experience a glow 
effect, making the letters fade into each other. There are some studies on this 
somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look them up right now, they should be 
relatively easy to find, though. 

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