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iPhone 17 Pro Max Dark mode or light mode
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I have Dark Mode on on my Macs and the thing that I find most difficult to deal with is that both QuarkXPress and InDesign still have white backgrounds for their documents. You can make the pasteboard dark(ish) but the area where you're actually building is white. I get that traditionally it is white (like you would draw or paint starting with a white background), but unlike Photoshop there is no feature to make the background 'transparent' or anything other than white. And of course you could cover it with an object that is black, but that object wouldn't necessarily be part of whatever it is you're designing.
It's still just kind of jarring.
Thankfully, Microsoft Word (and Outlook) finally got Dark Mode sometime back.
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This.
100% this.
I have bad eyes and a lot of light sensitivity and I have to look at screens all day. I can't stand a screen being 90% white. It's so awful to look at.
Usually dark, for better contrast and not straining my eyes at night. This is hard to see, however:
Apple Mail does this too, all email backgrounds are white. At least I can set the font to Comic Sans and Papyrus which has been a tradition since 2012 (I love making anyone who spots my machine at work angry lol)
This is so interesting, I like light mode because of eye problems. White text on a black background is incredibly straining to me, vs. dark text on a light background.
We are all special snowflakes!
It goes back to the era of Tandy DeskMate for me (my intolerance to light mode) wherein the entire UI was white with very bright blue boxes/app colours. I probably spent an hour or two a day in the computer lab in those days typing word processing and database documents staring at that horrendous UX.
Any time I attempt to look long-term at a bright white UI like that my head starts to hurt very bad and my vision blurs and then I feel phyiscally sick (migraine). The PC at work sadly runs Windows 11 in full light mode so this issue persists at work.
This was NEVER a problem when we had actual depth in the UI (iOS 6-under, macOS X, Windows Vista and 7, Android 2.3).
Heck if we really go back, it wasn't an issue in CP/M either if you turned reverse video OFF on the monitor, where the display put amber text on black background.
Any time I attempt to look long-term at a bright white UI like that my head starts to hurt very bad and my vision blurs and then I feel phyiscally sick (migraine). The PC at work sadly runs Windows 11 in full light mode so this issue persists at work.
This was NEVER a problem when we had actual depth in the UI (iOS 6-under, macOS X, Windows Vista and 7, Android 2.3).
Heck if we really go back, it wasn't an issue in CP/M either if you turned reverse video OFF on the monitor, where the display put amber text on black background.
