Introduction
According to a survey, 70% of software engineers prefer a Dark theme IDE over the light theme. You will always a lot of dark theme in the popular theme section of any IDE. So why? Developers love the dark theme. So here I am going to list some reasons why I like the Dark theme.
1. Soothing to Eye
As obvious a dark theme helps us to focus on the screen without having irritation in our eyes. The dark theme doesn't make we go dry as compared to the white theme. During the low light situation, Dark theme is the most preferred theme.
2. More Concentration
Human eyes easily find something brighter in dark surround, it comes from our ancestor. So Dark Background helps us to see the font colour clearly in the editor. Also, the different colour for the different element is easily recognizable in the dark theme. It makes code easily readable because of contrast.
3. Save Energy
This point doesn't sound like an obvious reason but a dark theme help to save energy. It might be not a lot of energy but still, if you are working on the laptop for a long session it can be helpful. Also if most people use dark theme it will result in a large quantity of energy being saved.
I would love to know your reason to use a dark theme. You can tell your favourite dark theme also. Thank You guys for reading this blog post.
Top comments (100)
Light attracts bugs. We don't like bugs, right?
It's not bugs, it's features!
Nice one bro 🤣🤣
One line answer.
Amen 😂😂
Case closed! lol
This is great 😂
Correct!!
We can't afford to have bug in our house😂😂😂
I've never fallen for dark mode but this make me consider a switch =)
Yep, you should give a try ♥️
Oh, I've tried it several times. If coding at night I think it's ok but for daily programming I find it makes the other screens appears so bright. I rather have a light mode with low brightness on the screen.
Yep, adjusting according to light is good practice.
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hilarious 😂
better contrast, easier for the eyes 😉
I saw an article that says the opposite.
Let me find it
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Might be it's hard for white colour but other colours on black are easily readable. On white, we have a lot of trouble to read bright colour while on black we can easily read the bright colour without any trouble. IDE is made of multiple colours with each element is different, so dark is very suitable is such a situation.
Depends on color palette. I can't agree that colored code is any less readable on white if the right shades that is dark enough is chosen.
You can also chose shades that are hard to read on black.
Not that this is in any way scientific but:
#ffe0ffon#fff- I can still read#002000on#000- can't read at all, can't tell which color it isYep Bro, Everything at last comes to personal preferences and yes there are colours which you can't read clearly on dark but same goes for white theme IDE too.
My astigmatic eyes approves this.
Turns out that it depends.
You should try it and see if you can keep the same reading speed and how fast your eyes get tired.
While dark theme looks kinda Pro then it doesn't change code quality.
Think about what is good for you :)
Yeah, it comes down to individual preference anyways 😉
Yesss, it's always a personal preference.
I used to use dark mode on everything cause my eyes hurt when using light mode, but lately I got fatigue really easily and changed my dark mode behavior to light mode, now I can code longer without hurting my eyes, weird huh.
Same here bro, I am using dark mode on almost all my devices.
Yes that's why I love dark theme
I'm using dark theme everywhere not only in code IDE, because after over 30 years of computer use, I found dark screen so much pleasant for my eyes. I don't agree that light is smooth because I feel so much light from screen to my eyes in that way.
I also started to maximize the use of dark theme whenever I am looking at the screen.
Thats good for your eyes
I have the problems with light to my eyes but, I have not noticed it reduced with dark mode
Yess, Dark Theme helps eye.
I used light themes for years. Then I suddenly switched to dark ones, because all my colleagues where using them. I found out a better experience, but when the sun shines in the room I think the light themes will perform better.
Yes, light play important role in choosing theme in low light dark themes are best and bright light light themes are best.
I use Light-Theme on daytime because it's easier for the eyes in a bright environment and keeps the focus.
And on nighttime it switches to dark-mode by using a VSCode extension.
You can set when exactly it should switch and it can calculate when the sun goes down in your region. You can also add or subtract e.g. 30min from that time.
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I didn't really like dark themes ... I always used the light "normal" theme or modified it to be more grayish.
Then, most of the development tools went the dark mode route by default and I felt it was too much trouble to change all of them so I stuck with it.
Now, I finally understand it was better all along and it was just that I was not used to it. I should have forced myself to use it years ago.
I hope now you Can adapt to dark theme era.
I like it now and I think I was wrong to be so reluctant before :D
Soothing to the eye... that depends. A light background can be just as good. Spacemacs e.g. has a very nice light theme. I tend to use the light one during the day, and switch to the dark one in the evening.
No idea where you got that "more concentration" thing for, source please?
The energy saving point is a myth, unless you have an OLED screen, and even then the only way it saves energy is if you have the background set to completely black. And hardly any dark theme does that.
So, yea...
You have a point bro.
I would like the dark theme, but I have to switch between the dark IDE and the light background websites and that ruins my eyes. The solution would be to switch the desktop to completely dark mode (via xfce4-night-mode, customized .vimrc to toggle background at night, etc.) and also view the websites in night mode, but I think that would be more work than advantage.
I’ve tried to switch to dark mode several times because I want to try it, but I’ve never been really successful. What technical solutions are there?
I use an extension called Dark Mode in my chrome website to toggle between dark and light mode. You can give a try.
Definitely easier on the eyes. I typically use blue-light blocking glasses when I'm working, but I love how relaxing dark themes are as opposed to being blasted with bright colors.
Yep, dark theme are blessings for our eyes.
I've read a lot about this subject over the years and all the so-called "experts" say the exact opposite, but they also say to lessen the contrast to be softer on the eyes, for example a background of 0xEFEFEF and 0x0F0F0F text color...
I personally get massive headaches from light screens, but not other brighter lights except for the sun so I can't do without a dark theme.
Personal preference is the most important. If anyone is comfortable with dark go with dark or comfortable with white goes with white.
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