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sariel
2y

What the fuck is wrong with web designers these days?

Every fucking web page is white with black text. It's 2022, let's stop this paper bullshit and change everything to use colors that make sense on screens.

For fuck sakes, even monokai.pro is black on white. You know monokai, that dark colorful color scheme that most editors support. With a black background and white text.

I'm nursing the worst migraine in the world right now and all I want to do is smash people's faces into these shitty white screens.

It wouldn't be so bad if these fuckers would have a dark mode, but 80% of the documentation that I have to read doesn't support dark mode. Yeah I know about the browser plugins that do it for you, but I honestly don't trust any of them since most of them have been found to be spyware.

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  • 5
    I think it’s a combination of a lack of budget and really anal clients that doesn’t allow designers (and developers) to express their full creativity. I wish there was more creative, eye catching things these days, but it’s honestly sad the way we are going. Designers aren’t given the freedom to really dig in anymore.
  • 4
    It would make the most sense if websites could query the current theme or color scheme of the device via the browser. Then the site could adapt its appearance to light or dark theme, kind of like it adapts to different screen sizes. Native apps do it like this on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android.
  • 0
    Monokai is a rather bad color scheme. Too damn saturated
  • 1
    @phat-lasagna completely agree with this.

    @iiii I find it the perfect balance between dark and light for my eyes.

    I have asigmatism and can't read high contrast colors like black and white very well. The bright colors on a not black background that monokai uses is just perfect for me. The only time of day I don't strain to read is when I'm using my editor.
  • 4
    @Lensflare The tech is there. CSS has prefers-color-scheme for custom styling and color-scheme for the default appearance, the latter also as HTML meta tag to make the browser aware of that even before the stylesheets have been downloaded.

    Used together, the page can practically ship in light and dark at the same time, leaving the choice up to the user's browser. No JS and no page specific user setting required - works correctly even on the first page view.
  • 0
    Idk, I like simplicity and minimalism
  • 2
    chrome://flags#enable-force-dark

    or

    edge://flags#enable-force-dark

    I think I usually set this to one of the selective settings.
  • 2
    Try the Dark Reader extension (free)

    A blessing from the lord!
  • 2
    I work in a project where the designer has found colours. Pastel colours. Lots and lots and lots of them. Tries to give me a migraine every time I test the page. >.>

    I've been thinking of making myself a dark theme but then again I'm lazy.
  • 1
    Having light hypersensitivity, anything that blasts me with their retarded nuclear white light modes is a no-go.
  • 3
    Sadly, I gotta say dark mode can take an insane amount of time to implement in a big org where designers have high standards.

    Us devs once built a dark mode POC in an hour. But once design took a look at it, they found tons of problems that meand the entire design system would need a big update to implement dark mode properly (just some examples being nuances of each branding color became a big deal)
  • 2
    Some fun issues with auto darkmodes is that they way they just override background-color values can mess things up in info graphics.

    Recently saw a screenshot of bar chart using background-color to set each bar toy he color of a country. Someone was asking "why is one country brown? there's no brown flag in this chart?" and it was an auto dark mode that had modified the color
  • 0
    Firefox hasa read view. You can change the colour to whatever you like and no plug-in necessary.
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