| ▲ | qball 7 hours ago | |
No. The reason Light Mode has been getting lighter is simple: because the default computer in 2025 is now a laptop or phone, whereas in 2009 it was a desktop. Laptops and phones have easy and relatively coarse brightness adjustment settings for their screens. Desktops didn't, and still don't. So it makes sense that you'd just make whites as bright as possible- if the user doesn't like that, they can just turn the brightness down. Otherwise you're just kind of leaving the monitor's available/potential contrast on the table. Note that Dark Modes skyrocketed in popularity after the default computer changed from being a desktop to a laptop- but that's because laptop and phone screens couldn't (and still can't) get dim enough at night (for dark colors are still bright due to inherent backlight bleed-through). The next change to this trend will occur, specifically to Dark Mode, 1-2 years after the average machine a software designer is issued for work has an OLED screen- because OLED screens actually can get that dim, the current color balance will likely be inappropriate. | ||
| ▲ | satvikpendem 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> but that's because laptop and phone screens couldn't (and still can't) get dim enough at night (for dark colors are still bright due to inherent backlight bleed-through). Not really anymore these days, because most use OLED, miniLED, or sufficiently good LCD tech that backlight bleed is not much of an issue. | ||
| ▲ | pseudalopex 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> So it makes sense that you'd just make whites as bright as possible- if the user doesn't like that, they can just turn the brightness down. Otherwise you're just kind of leaving the monitor's available/potential contrast on the table. No. 70% white backgrounds allowed light and dark contrast elements. 100% white backgrounds do not. | ||
| ▲ | Krutonium 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>Laptops and phones have easy and relatively coarse brightness adjustment settings for their screens. Desktops didn't, and still don't. You know what sucks? They do. Desktops do. They have since the late 90s. Microsoft just never implemented it. Most desktop displays happily respond to brightness commands from the OS over DDCCI. | ||