RW
Roger Whiteley
Fri, May 8, 2026 9:21 AM
The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI practice.
Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
</rant over>
just my two pennorth.
Roger.
The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI practice.
Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
</rant over>
just my two pennorth.
Roger.
MM
Michael Möller
Fri, May 8, 2026 9:52 AM
Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the bleed
reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour the text is
when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax highlight.
Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different colours confusing.
Comments is enough, italics can do that. (Those who have synesthesia
or chromesthesia,
get significantly uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could display on
the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah, well.
All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI practice.
Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
</rant over>
just my two pennorth.
Roger.
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Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the bleed
reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour the text is
when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax highlight.
Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different colours confusing.
Comments is enough, italics can do that. (Those who have synesthesia
or chromesthesia,
get significantly uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could display on
the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah, well.
All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
> The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
> don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
> changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI practice.
>
> Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
>
> I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
> Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
> on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
>
> </rant over>
>
> just my two pennorth.
>
> Roger.
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nop head
Fri, May 8, 2026 11:37 AM
I prefer dark mode because too much white on the screen can give me a
migraine aura. I never get full migraines, just the visual disturbance
On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 10:53, Michael Möller via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the bleed
reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour the text
is when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax highlight.
Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different colours confusing.
Comments is enough, italics can do that. (Those who have synesthesia or chromesthesia,
get significantly uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could display
on the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah, well.
All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI
practice.
Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
</rant over>
just my two pennorth.
Roger.
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I prefer dark mode because too much white on the screen can give me a
migraine aura. I never get full migraines, just the visual disturbance
On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 10:53, Michael Möller via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
> Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
>
> It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
> background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the bleed
> reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
>
> I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour the text
> is when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax highlight.
> Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different colours confusing.
> Comments is enough, italics can do that. (Those who have synesthesia or chromesthesia,
> get significantly uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
>
> Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could display
> on the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah, well.
>
> All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
>
> fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss <
> discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
>
>> The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
>> don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
>> changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI
>> practice.
>>
>> Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
>>
>> I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
>> Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
>> on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
>>
>> </rant over>
>>
>> just my two pennorth.
>>
>> Roger.
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>
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RW
Roger Whiteley
Sat, May 9, 2026 4:32 PM
@nophead, as a previous migraine sufferer I fully understand why you'd
feel that way, mine was triggered by chocolate tho.
Ironically my terminals are green on black, just like a VT220 or IBM
3270.... I do like a bit of colour highlighting in bash sessions it
helps...
I didn't mean to discourage investigation of Dark Mode, just questioning
the benefit over the effort involved, my bad, sorry.
Roger
On 08/05/2026 12:37, nop head wrote:
I prefer dark mode because too much white on the screen can give me a
migraine aura. I never get full migraines, just the visual disturbance
On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 10:53, Michael Möller via Discuss
discuss@lists.openscad.org wrote:
Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the
bleed reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour
the text is when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax
highlight. Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different
colours confusing. Comments is enough, italics can do that.
(Those who have synesthesia or chromesthesia, get significantly
uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could
display on the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah,
well.
All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss
<discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for
UI's that
don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers
into
changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad
UI practice.
Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
I have defective eyesight, not just age related
long-sightedness, I find
Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield
soothing
on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed
with a #.
</rant over>
just my two pennorth.
Roger.
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@nophead, as a previous migraine sufferer I fully understand why you'd
feel that way, mine was triggered by chocolate tho.
Ironically my terminals are green on black, just like a VT220 or IBM
3270.... I do like a bit of colour highlighting in bash sessions it
helps...
I didn't mean to discourage investigation of Dark Mode, just questioning
the benefit over the effort involved, my bad, sorry.
Roger
On 08/05/2026 12:37, nop head wrote:
> I prefer dark mode because too much white on the screen can give me a
> migraine aura. I never get full migraines, just the visual disturbance
>
> On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 10:53, Michael Möller via Discuss
> <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
>
> Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
>
> It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
> background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the
> bleed reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
>
> I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour
> the text is when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax
> highlight. Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different
> colours confusing. Comments is enough, italics can do that.
> (Those who have synesthesia or chromesthesia, get significantly
> uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
>
> Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could
> display on the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah,
> well.
>
> All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
>
> fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss
> <discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
>
> The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for
> UI's that
> don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers
> into
> changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad
> UI practice.
>
> Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
>
> I have defective eyesight, not just age related
> long-sightedness, I find
> Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield
> soothing
> on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed
> with a #.
>
> </rant over>
>
> just my two pennorth.
>
> Roger.
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CL
Chow Loong Jin
Tue, May 12, 2026 8:16 AM
I don't get a migraine, but my eyes will water if the screen's too
bright or has too much white on it. It's particularly bad in
super-high-contrasting colours, e.g. fully black text on white
backgrounds as opposed to black on light gray.
Point is, we all have different eyes, no need to shit on the efforts
people working on getting good dark mode support, yeah? It ain't about
you.
On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 12:37:27PM +0100, nop head via Discuss wrote:
I prefer dark mode because too much white on the screen can give me a
migraine aura. I never get full migraines, just the visual disturbance
On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 10:53, Michael Möller via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the bleed
reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour the text
is when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax highlight.
Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different colours confusing.
Comments is enough, italics can do that. (Those who have synesthesia or chromesthesia,
get significantly uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could display
on the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah, well.
All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI
practice.
Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
</rant over>
just my two pennorth.
Roger.
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I don't get a migraine, but my eyes will water if the screen's too
bright or has too much white on it. It's particularly bad in
super-high-contrasting colours, e.g. fully black text on white
backgrounds as opposed to black on light gray.
Point is, we all have different eyes, no need to shit on the efforts
people working on getting good dark mode support, yeah? It ain't about
you.
On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 12:37:27PM +0100, nop head via Discuss wrote:
> I prefer dark mode because too much white on the screen can give me a
> migraine aura. I never get full migraines, just the visual disturbance
>
> On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 10:53, Michael Möller via Discuss <
> discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
>
> > Oh, I want to rant, too ;-)
> >
> > It's been "proven" that it is faster to read black text on a light
> > background. (Irrelevant(?) fact: when printing inverse text the bleed
> > reduces strokewidth, so text needs slight bolding)
> >
> > I notice that it is harder to see coloured text, or what colour the text
> > is when light mode, so dark mode is "required" for syntax highlight.
> > Personally I find syntax highlighting with 10 different colours confusing.
> > Comments is enough, italics can do that. (Those who have synesthesia or chromesthesia,
> > get significantly uncomfortable with "wrong" colours. Not me, fortunatly)
> >
> > Thinking about past terminals (back when ASCII was all you could display
> > on the 80 × 24 terminal) they were all green on black. Ah, well.
> >
> > All in all, I can not get exited about dark mode.
> >
> > fre. 8. maj 2026, 11.21 skrev Roger Whiteley via Discuss <
> > discuss@lists.openscad.org>:
> >
> >> The first thing I turn off is Dark Mode, the modern trend for UI's that
> >> don't highlight URL's properly, allow sites to force browsers into
> >> changing their entire colour scheme is both irritating and bad UI
> >> practice.
> >>
> >> Its like looking for a black cat in a coal hole.
> >>
> >> I have defective eyesight, not just age related long-sightedness, I find
> >> Dark Mode [in general] horrible to use, FWIW I find Cornfield soothing
> >> on the eyes and its easy to pick out an object I've prefixed with a #.
> >>
> >> </rant over>
> >>
> >> just my two pennorth.
> >>
> >> Roger.
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> >
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TP
Torsten Paul
Tue, May 12, 2026 1:42 PM
On 12.05.26 10:16, Chow Loong Jin via Discuss wrote:
Point is, we all have different eyes, no need to shit on the efforts
people working on getting good dark mode support, yeah? It ain't about
you.
Exactly, well said!
My view on this is:
I personally don't care about dark mode, I don't want to use it.
I do care a lot OpenSCAD supports dark mode so people who want
it, can use it.
Especially on Linux it's unfortunately quite tricky and the
different packaging formats like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage
make it even more difficult for various reasons.
ciao,
Torsten.
On 12.05.26 10:16, Chow Loong Jin via Discuss wrote:
> Point is, we all have different eyes, no need to shit on the efforts
> people working on getting good dark mode support, yeah? It ain't about
> you.
Exactly, well said!
My view on this is:
I personally don't care about dark mode, I don't want to use it.
I do care a lot OpenSCAD supports dark mode so people who want
it, can use it.
Especially on Linux it's unfortunately quite tricky and the
different packaging formats like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage
make it even more difficult for various reasons.
ciao,
Torsten.
