The monitor is able to display millions of colours including hundreds of shades of grey.
Yet we still go with either vanta-black-text-on-pure-white-background or pure-white-text-on-vanta-black-background. That shit’s TERRIBLE on your eyes, for fuck’s sake. Bonus points if you’re one of those ultra-turbo-power-masochists that uses their computer with all the lights out and nothing but the glow of the monitor lighting up the room. Do you WANT to be blind before you turn forty?
The lower-contrast a theme is, the better. Solarized or death.
I also highkey miss the age of transparencies and animations and skeuomorphic 3D-prerendered icons on everything. The modern trend of symbolic icons and mostly-flat UI elements lacks prettiness. There was never a moment when computer UIs looked better than early aughts MacOSX. Fight me.
I’ve been looking for Skeuomorph and Aero themes for Android and Windows respectively for years now. I’ve found some but they always seem to be outdated.
Solarized hurts my eyes and triggers migraines. Dark mode allows me to have a normal work day without wishing the embrace of dead after leaving the office.
I have the same issue with solarized. I find a totally black background with light gray text to be the best for me. It’s funny, I’ve had migraines my whole life and yet I ended up working with screens and screens are an integral part of my hobbies.
I’ll back you on that, Mac OS X Tiger was the prettiest OS Apple ever made in my opinion although Leopard was fantastic as well. The iPod in general and early iOS was gorgeous as well.
White-on-black/black-on-white
The monitor is able to display millions of colours including hundreds of shades of grey.
Yet we still go with either vanta-black-text-on-pure-white-background or pure-white-text-on-vanta-black-background. That shit’s TERRIBLE on your eyes, for fuck’s sake. Bonus points if you’re one of those ultra-turbo-power-masochists that uses their computer with all the lights out and nothing but the glow of the monitor lighting up the room. Do you WANT to be blind before you turn forty?
The lower-contrast a theme is, the better. Solarized or death.
I also highkey miss the age of transparencies and animations and skeuomorphic 3D-prerendered icons on everything. The modern trend of symbolic icons and mostly-flat UI elements lacks prettiness. There was never a moment when computer UIs looked better than early aughts MacOSX. Fight me.
I’ve been looking for Skeuomorph and Aero themes for Android and Windows respectively for years now. I’ve found some but they always seem to be outdated.
I like the catppuccin theme for most things because it has slightly less contrast. Dark mode on android sucks but is better than light mode.
Correct on all accounts. Catpuccin is nice.
Solarized hurts my eyes and triggers migraines. Dark mode allows me to have a normal work day without wishing the embrace of dead after leaving the office.
I have the same issue with solarized. I find a totally black background with light gray text to be the best for me. It’s funny, I’ve had migraines my whole life and yet I ended up working with screens and screens are an integral part of my hobbies.
I’ll back you on that, Mac OS X Tiger was the prettiest OS Apple ever made in my opinion although Leopard was fantastic as well. The iPod in general and early iOS was gorgeous as well.
I miss the days of lickable Mac OS X as well. Been meaning to set up a virtual machine to run Tiger or something.