I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
I like dark themes in general, but I absolutely hate the 'inverted-color' or 'black' themes that many sites and apps are using as a 'dark' theme.
A good dark theme shouldn't have super high contrast between the text and the background (just like a good light theme should have a bit less than perfect contrast between the text and the background). DEV's 'night theme' is an example of a good one, other than how blue it is (I prefer neutral or warm gray myself for stuff like this).
However I am absolutely against auto-switching based on light-level unless you provide an option for a user to override the automatic behavior. Some people just prefer one or the other, and some actually need one or the other (dark themes tend to help people with astigmatism pretty significantly).
I like dark themes in general, but I absolutely hate the 'inverted-color' or 'black' themes that many sites and apps are using as a 'dark' theme.
A good dark theme shouldn't have super high contrast between the text and the background (just like a good light theme should have a bit less than perfect contrast between the text and the background). DEV's 'night theme' is an example of a good one, other than how blue it is (I prefer neutral or warm gray myself for stuff like this).
However I am absolutely against auto-switching based on light-level unless you provide an option for a user to override the automatic behavior. Some people just prefer one or the other, and some actually need one or the other (dark themes tend to help people with astigmatism pretty significantly).
I like the way you illustrated the difference between good and bad dark theme 👌