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TIL that pure black backgrounds are actually bad for dark mode and I owe my old art teacher an apology
I used to swear by #000000 backgrounds for every app I touched, mostly because it looked sleek and saved battery on my OLED phone. Then a friend who does accessibility work showed me her screen at a coffee shop in Portland, and the pure black made all the text bloom and smudge like wet ink. She pulled up a contrast checker and #121212 with #E0E0E0 text hit way better numbers than my old setup ever did. Took me about ten minutes of squinting at both side by side to admit she was right. What gray levels are you all using for your base layers, or do you still stick with true black?
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