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Just realized dark mode is not a contrast fix, it's a trap
I kept seeing people push dark mode as the answer to all readability problems, so I finally gave it a real shot last month on a client's dashboard. Turned out my bright orange accent text on a near-black background was still failing contrast checks at like 2.5 to 1, even though it looked cool as hell. I ran it through a free contrast tool and the numbers didn't lie, so I had to switch to a lighter yellow and bump up the text size by 2px. That got me to 4.6 to 1, which finally passed. But then I realized dark mode just shifts the problem, it doesn't solve it. Has anyone else found themselves reworking their whole palette just because dark mode made them lazy about checking actual ratios?
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rowanp157d ago
Was it really the dark mode that made you lazy though? Sounds more like you skipped checking your colors until the dark theme made the bad ones stand out, which would've happened on a light theme too if you'd picked a bad combo there. Dark mode doesn't shift the problem, it just stops hiding it.
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