I think it should just be up to the individual: what do you prefer? And UI design should move towards standards to support this user-based decision, offering both a light and dark mode that is easily toggled based on personal preferences and the ambient lighting where the UI currently exists.
People are always asking for or writing blog posts about the ultimate answer. The light UI has really won out completely in the wider world of consumer UI, while the dark UI is almost ubiquitous in certain niches and communities. Seems that some people think reading strain means real eye damage, perhaps even permanent damage, instead of what it really means-quicker exhaustion and perhaps a headache. I think that's conflated with dark-vs-light because of the typical retro image of a CRT displaying a green-on-black CLI. There's also lots of persistent myths and misconceptions left over from yesteryear, such as the myth that being close to a CRT will actually damage your eyesight. The studies are never very rigorous, either. I've read about apps that switched from light to dark and saw a drop in engagement, but the same thing has happened for apps that go from dark to light, so perhaps it's just poor experimental control and the dip is just what happens to the user base whenever you change up the UI at all. I've read about blogs and apps which go with a light design to reduce user strain due to being very text-centric, but then again there's studies that say programming benefits from a dark view for the exact same reason. There's so many mixed signals and contradictory studies about eye strain and computer displays that I'm almost forced to conclude as a layman that it's totally subjective and up to the user. The first time I walked into that room trying to find someone, I assumed it was empty, lights off, and everyone went home, but there were a dozen people in there working like that! I'd feel like I crawled out of a cave every time I left the room if I worked in that environment. They even have blackout curtains over the windows. There's an IT 'dungeon' at my workplace, and all of their screens are in a dark mode theme although the IT people there do not use any lights in that room besides the glow of their monitors, and maybe 10 feet of multicolored string lights in one of the corners so you aren't running into desks. I used to be really into night mode in high school, but that didn't really last as back then, extensions like this were clunky and screwed up websites (eg, not all black font would switch to white, or the implementation would just invert the colors on the page, including images). I haven't gotten eye strain in over a decade since I started using f.lux. White backgrounds have less glare with my monitors, and I'm not one to work without a lamp as I live off a legal pad. Another reason is the brightness of the monitor is just excessive - try turning it down. To the guy saying it's a strain to use black text on white, I believe some eye disorders make it easier to read white text on black.
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When I stated using a mac, the bright background infuriated me, but when I went back to a dark background, I realised the mac was just nicer to use.
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Any experts, feel free to correct or extend this, thanks. With dark background, the eye tries to expand the pupil to let in more light, yet wants to contract to improve focus, so they fight. Take a sheet of paper, put a pin through it and then look again at the clock through the pinhole - it's a lot less fuzzy). Another test if shortsighted: remove specs and look at a distant item such as a clock on a wall. To focus, the eye needs to contract the pupil (which is why when people take off their glasses they squint at things. Yes, and I understand there's a simple physiological reason for it.
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