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Patryk Jeziorowski
Patryk Jeziorowski

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In 2020, dark or light should be the default theme?

Just wondering what you guys would prefer as the default setting when you enter a page/blog?

I would appreciate if you would give me your opinions.

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atan

There's a semi-new prefers-color-scheme CSS feature that allows for detection of the system-selected dark/light mode. As implementations of dark/light modes become more popular, I think using this would solve the issue of operating in a dark environment and being blasted with a bright screen and vice versa.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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Patryk Jeziorowski

That's a very interesting answer. The approach with prefers-color-scheme seems very sensible, but I see it's not supported yet in all browsers unluckily.

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Serge Tarkovski

I totally agree with that, despite it's not supported everywhere. My personal opinion is that the most modern approach is to use a dark theme at night and a light theme at day, switching between them automatically.

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Will G

Personally do what you like and offer the alternative. I like dark themes my portfolio site and apps are dark themed but I always give a light theme option that is remembered on next visit/use.

I plan on implementing prefers-color-scheme when it becomes more mature.

A lot of it also has to do with having good web accessibility (e.g. Contrast webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/). Apps like Spotify have no issues with only using a dark theme because they pick their colors intelligently.

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Vladyslav Yakovenko

I would love for windows to change it basing on the sun position. Websites should follow prefers-color-scheme

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Anwar

Nice idea for following the sun, great!

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Tanmay Naik

Light

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Chad Adams

You should use both. Dark is good for dark rooms. Light is good for bright rooms

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Anwar

Why don't you make a poll post? 😉

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Sanket Maske

I think both

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kevin smith

Dark

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Médéric Burlet

I think the theme should be based on the brand and what they are trying to represent. Colors help build a brand identity.

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