> I believe a light theme (black letters on white/gray background) is better for astigmatism. With a dark theme, the bright letters will bleed into the dark areas surrounding them.
I would go even further - a light theme is better for optical clarity, period. Think about how a pinhole camera works [0]. "Up to a certain point, the smaller the hole, the sharper the image, but the dimmer the projected image." A pupil is basically the pinhole of a pinhole camera. The brighter the light, the smaller your pupil gets (up to a point), and the sharper the image.
I personally switch between light and dark modes. During day time, I turn on all the interior lighting and switch to light mode. During the night, I turn off the lights, use Flux [1], use dark mode, and bump the zoom in VS Code. This is to optimize for sleep.
Same here. I also prefer to be proactive with the windows that will not honor dark mode and when they pop up in the middle of everything dark, the flash is unbearable. Having everything light mode help here.
I just code in dark mode because I got used to that when I switched to vscode.
I am recently experimenting with the Windows Night mode (that orangifies the screen) but I will give a try to flux (that I used last tile 10 or 15 years ago, or maybe even more)
I would go even further - a light theme is better for optical clarity, period. Think about how a pinhole camera works [0]. "Up to a certain point, the smaller the hole, the sharper the image, but the dimmer the projected image." A pupil is basically the pinhole of a pinhole camera. The brighter the light, the smaller your pupil gets (up to a point), and the sharper the image.
I personally switch between light and dark modes. During day time, I turn on all the interior lighting and switch to light mode. During the night, I turn off the lights, use Flux [1], use dark mode, and bump the zoom in VS Code. This is to optimize for sleep.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera#Selection_of_pi...
[1] https://justgetflux.com/