Sometimes I ask myself why dark theme isn’t the default setting on apps. I mean, light theme WRECKS YOUR EYES!!! How can the common way of designing is to make light theme default or JUST NOT HAVE A DARK THEME!!!!! It’s so unnatural!!!! Anyway...

Color association

white; innocent, pure, clean, lightweight

dark; ransomware, insecure, ..

@runfrodorun I wasn’t talking about the screen and eye thing, I was talking about the “unpleasingness” of light theme and how it’s awful

@runfrodorun thats why one should when its dark use some bluelightfilter anyway indeed.

Maybe because that light&dark theme stuff is more about the people's self-image than the actual difference between themes and colors.

@runfrodorun This is why OLED is awesome. Black pixels are literally off. Using the devrant black theme on my phone only emits light from the text and UI components.

Not only way easier on your eyes at night, but improves battery life too.

@justsomeguy I really love OLED for that reason, but doesnt it usually come with heavy burn-in issues?

@JoshBent Eh, this is my third phone with OLED and I haven't ran into anything that affects usage. In fact, it's not even noticeable unless you max out the brightness and put on a solid color (best being grey) to see it.

That being said, I never use a phone for longer than a year. After 2 or 3 years it could be considerably worse.

But then again, the only components on your screen that are static is your navigation buttons and status bar - and even then, they're not completely static (icons change + navigation disappears on full screen apps. On my OP5T my navigation buttons automatically hide, I have to swipe up to see them which would help with that considerably too)

I would say that stereotypes still influence design ideas to some extent when creating this kind of software