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Discussion on: Light Mode or Dark Mode, which do you prefer?

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Ben Sinclair

I disregard "dark mode" except where it's tied to lighting conditions or time of day.

"Dark mode" is a subset of "theme" and I choose the theme I prefer. For text reading that tends to be dark-on-light and for editing or chat it tends to be light-on-dark. Hosted SAAS I tend to use as dark-on-light and native applications the opposite. I guess I see code editors in the browser as more like "toys" and things not to trust (because of accidentally navigating away and losing work or losing a connection or what have you) and native programs as "real", so I associate the colours that way.