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David Wickes
David Wickes

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Dark Side vs Light Side

Tell me, Dev.to - do you use a dark background in your editor and terminal, or a light background? And now tell me - why?

(Maybe it's neither. Maybe you're like the frontend dev who sits two desks in front of me at work and it's a BRIGHT RED background in his terminal. All the time. Every day. It hurts my eyes from 10 meters away. What a hero.)

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Laurie

Dark, too much white fatigues my eyes.
Plus, fun color contrasts pop more for me on dark mode!

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Thomas Rigby

Mostly dark. I occasionally switch to a light theme if I'm working on a bright sunny day. I try to "night mode" as much as possible - partly for readability, partly for battery saving, partly because I'm a big goth 😎

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Pandita • Edited

teamDark because I'm a vampire and the light theme burns my eyes D:>

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Derek Rosenzweig

dark, always.

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Xing Wang

dark.

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Ben Otero

Always dark, unless working outside in bright sunlight.

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Alexey Stepankov • Edited

Light of course, not all apps and website supports dark mode and switch between them (light to dark and dark to light) negative affect on eyes.

p/s night mode with dark mode look so bad...

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Mikael Klages

I use dark mode because I'm used to it and like the aesthetic. On websites I use a plugin that automatically invert the brightness if the website doesn't have a dark mode.

I'm considering swapping to a color or theme to use everywhere instead, since that sounds fun.

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Ildarov

Dark, like the Darth Vader!!!

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DrBearhands

No preference. I'm going to have to try the bright red.