Despite the hype, dark mode won’t necessarily help reduce eyestrain after you spend all day staring at a display. To summarize, a dark-on-light (positive polarity) display like a Mac in Light Mode provides better performance in focusing of the eye, identifying letters, transcribing letters, text comprehension, reading speed, and proofreading performance, and at least some older studies suggest that using a positive polarity display results in less visual fatigue and increased visual comfort.Įngst does a good job of highlighting the problems with dark mode and explaining why it’s not a good option for everybody all the time. He highlights studies that have shown black-on-white (“positive polarity”) text is more readable: In other words, black text on a white background is better than white text on a black background. Apple’s website says dark mode on macOS is “easy on the eyes-in every way.” That’s not entirely true.Įngst highlights vision research that demonstrates dark-colored objects on light backgrounds are easy to view. That’s amazing.īut the critics are right-some of the promotion around dark mode is silly. Once a niche feature beloved by geeks, dark mode is becoming a built-in option in every big operating system.
Even File Explorer on Windows now supports dark mode. Chrome and Firefox have their own dark modes.
#A DARK ROOM IOS VS PC WINDOWS 10#
Windows 10 and macOS have already embraced Dark Mode, and it’s coming to iOS 13 and Android Q.
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