The dev on my team in Austin said #121212 was 'too flat' so I bumped it to #1a1a1a and now I get it
I shipped our whole settings panel on pure #000 for like 6 months because I thought max contrast was the goal. Then Marcus looked at it on his phone in the office and said pure black makes the elevation layers invisible, so cards just dissolve into the background. Switched to #121212 for the base and #1e1e1e for cards and suddenly everything reads like it has actual depth. Curious what base hex you all land on for backgrounds, is #121212 still the go-to or are people going lighter?