Support light / dark mode

[mdeuk]

We ought to consider implementing colour schemes, so as to allow our users to choose light / dark mode as per their preference.

Implementing 'dark mode' is an interesting accessibility and usability enhancement - from my own personal experience, it is much easier for me to interact with a service that isn't running in brilliant white or a similarly pale shade (I use 'dark dimmed' on GitHub, and make extensive use of Solarized elsewhere).

Done correctly, we should hopefully be able to do this without many moving parts - the bulk of our existing colours are complimentary

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/redesigning-your-product-and-website-for-dark-mode

[FOIMonkey]

+1 I personally use dark mode everywhere it is possible to do so, as I find it makes things much easier to read.

[garethrees]

I'm not saying no, only that I really don't understand all the fuss! This would be an interesting one to attempt to include in a funding proposal…

[sallytay]

I can only comment from a personal perspective, with some eye conditions it is very hard to read some text on a white background, especially if that text is grey rather than black or a light colour or a non standard font Reading light text on a black background is much easier. It's generally offered as an accessibility tool. Of course in other cases people just prefer it.

[garethrees]

Is this something Night Shift, f.lux, etc can help with?

Also looks like there are browser extensions that implement this generically.

Again, stressing that I'm not for or against this, only that it would be a significant project that's unlikely to happen soon, so exploring all the options.