“We can transform an original 10 million dollar investment into billions of dollars,” and of course the whole thing explodes. It reminded me of this scene in The Big Short. We routinely take a single color value like and lighten or darken for hover and focus states and things like backgrounds and border colors.Įach of our many buttons and their individual states were based on a set of transformations of a single compiled color value. This meant storing our color values as var(-red-500) instead of a static This was an interesting problem in our design system, and the site in general. I needed to convert static, Less-compiled hex values to runtime custom CSS properties.
If I had any hope of shipping dark mode to Stack Overflow, I’d first need to solve dark mode using Stacks, our design system, as a sandbox.
IMPLEMENT DARK THEME ANDROID STUDIO FULL
The full normalized color gamut Adding the colors to Stacks With this approach, became with the values in the middle staying pretty much the same. In my first explorations of what Stack Overflow would look like in dark mode, I wanted to simply test swapping the white background for black, and reversing the color scales. This would lead us to a color scale represented by through with 10% steps in between. Then we’d tint to lighten a few times 10%) at the other end of the spectrum. For example, we’d define a Less variable, and darken it by 10% a few times using 10%). When building our product’s original color scales, we-perhaps naively-took a single color value and modified it using Less color transformations. We could give our users dark mode and offer future accessibility modes for free? By solving everything along the way to dark mode, Stack Overflow would modernize its front-end codebase, enable accessibility-conscious theming, and push for adoption of our design system. The work I’m about to talk about was never about dark mode specifically, even though countless users asked for it. Things that are hard to manage on light screens like simultaneous contrast is even harder to manage against dark backgrounds.īut here I am, the guy who finally shipped dark mode on Stack Overflow. Light text on dark backgrounds is fatiguing to my eyes. It’s even harder to introduce depth with shadows and other visual cues. It’s hard to use the full spectrum of colors to express your interface. I often find the usable contrast to be way too low.
I don’t actually prefer dark user interfaces. I help design all the interface components that get assembled into new features.įirst, a bit of irony. Once it's turned on, the dark theme in apps like Google Photos, Play Store, Instagram, and more will be enabled even if you don't have a system-wide dark mode toggle in the standard Display settings.I’m Aaron Shekey, Stack Overflow’s principal product designer on design systems. The night mode toggle is what apps listen to when deciding whether to change to their dark theme.
This night mode toggle, which was found in the Developer Options in Android 9, can also be toggled in older versions of Android via ADB or third-party apps. You see, Android has had a hidden "night mode" option for a while now, but it first surfaced for the end-user with the release of Android 9 Pie. In case you have a device running Android 9 Pie or older, however, there is a way to enable this same dark mode toggle, which apps that have added dark modes will respect. Unfortunately, the toggle in Display settings is limited to devices running Android 10. The new dark mode not only transforms the system UI but also lets you use supported apps in dark mode. With Android 10, Google finally introduced a system-wide dark mode to the platform.
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