Manturgent
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- Mar 1, 2013
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Is there an option to toggle the background from white to black on pc? Thanks for any info.
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How about for mobile, and please don't suggest the app. It is way too light in features and I don't like the interface.
I use the web site and would love to reverse the colors as other story sites I use let me.
I still say I think the OP is an alt. Seven year account with only two posts? Screams alt to me.
I honestly forgot about the forum options at the bottom of the page. However, none of those were black or dark background. There IS a new (?) option there for "mobile and wireless devices" or maybe I just never noticed it before, but none are still "black."
A word on "black backgrounds." As people age (like me), or when they use their 'puter all night long (also like me), the desire to not see a bright background becomes almost an obsession. Here's the ironic aspect, a black background with bright white text becomes just as hard on the eyes as it's polar opposite.
What you want is muted colors: softer white backgrounds and grayer texts, or it's polar opposite, however, you also want where the contrast is high. Seeing gray text on a gray background, background, for instance, would cause higher eye strain. One thing I used to do in college was to turn my monitor resolution way down low (when they used to have such controls). My professor came by and asked "how can you see that?!?" Quite easily, was my response.
Staring at what amounts to be a 40-60 watt bulb for several hours a day, 1-2 feet from your face gives me all manner of memories of my parents warning not to sit so close to the TV set (for good reason).
To that end, Zeb Carter's suggestion of "dark night mode" fits that description. However, reading their description, it says "it's not perfect."
Earlier attempts by others to make a dark background was to simply invert the colors on a website. The trouble with those add-ons was that they invariably "break" a website, or come across a website that already offers a dark background. How do you invert a red background, for instance? When an inverter add-on sees a red background, instead of simply allowing the website to be viewed originally, it breaks the website so you can't see anything at all.
Blue colors are something you want to stay away from, because that part of the spectrum tends to blur, while amber brings clarity. There's also some study where doctors suggest that you avoid the blue spectrum right before you go to sleep; blue tends to keep you awake and alert (probably because your mind has to work harder to see the edges of blue spectrum objects).
I still say I think the OP is an alt. Seven year account with only two posts? Screams alt to me.
And if you check your monitor settings you might find that you can turn the "Blue Light" they are really talking about in those studies. Unfortunately, your phone does not allow you to turn it off.
Actually, I was looking into "sleep habits" and what to avoid to get better sleep habits, and the advice was to avoid watching TV and avoid using your computer, because because both are blue shifted. Computer monitors are generally more easily adjusted away from blue shift (but not all).
I know how to turn the blue shift off, on my monitor. Thanks anyways.
ever since the first "night mode" or "dark mode" came out, I swear I want everything in it. Probably too much for Lit (I would imagine the Admins have much better things to do with their time)...but if it ever happened, i'd be all over it!