Spent $60 on a dark mode browser extension that promised perfect contrast ratios

Installed it and my entire dev environment turned into a muddy gray soup with zero hierarchy, had to revert everything and now I'm back to manually tweaking CSS variables one by one - has anyone actually found a tool that doesn't mess up your custom palette?

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joseph_lewis9210d ago

Dark mode tools are almost always a scam. They just slap a gray filter on everything and call it a day. Your custom palette gets nuked because these things never respect existing CSS variables. Wasting money on them is pointless when you can just use a simple user stylesheet for free. Browser dev tools let you test contrast instantly without any addon garbage. Manual tweaking is annoying but at least you keep control of your actual design.

patricia38510d ago

My friend spent $40 on one and it turned her terminal into baby blue text on white...