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.
Oldest comments (100)
better contrast, easier for the eyes ๐
Yes that's why I love dark theme
I saw an article that says the opposite.
Let me find it
ux.stackexchange.com/questions/532...
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 ๐
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.
Especially for me dark themes are better because I have an Eye Disease. And I guess when you code in the evening it's also better for every eye ๐คฃ
Yep in low lighting situations dark theme are best
Light attracts bugs. We don't like bugs, right?
We can't afford to have bug in our house๐๐๐
One line answer.
hilarious ๐
This is great ๐
It's not bugs, it's features!
Nice one bro ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Amen ๐๐
Correct!!
Case closed! lol
I've never fallen for dark mode but this make me consider a switch =)
Yep, you should give a try โฅ๏ธ
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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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.
Dark theme for the same reason I donโt stare at light bulbs.
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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.
Iโve tried to switch to dark mode several times because I want to try it, but Iโve 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.
You feel like a badass hacker!
But really I always do it to prevent eye strain, sitting sometimes 8/9 hours+ infront of a white screen cant be good for you
Yes, we want to look like to hacker or something like in movies. #hackerman
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The Dark theme overwhelms me...
We love dark theme
As someone with a visual disability, Dark Theme is the only confortable way for me to read on a screen. On light mode i always have to squint and doing it 7 hours a day is very painfull
Same goes for me. I cant stare at light theme IDE for longer time.
Because eclipse leaves lifelong traumas...
We hate light theme
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