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cimoreneWhen I was first introduced to the concept of Night Mode a few years ago, my phone had an experimental? Android system feature: a Night Mode toggle in the top toggle bar which would basically invert the values of everything on the screen, with some tweaking. It didn't do a pure inversion like you'd get from Photoshop, but tried to make things more legible and closer to their originals, so a white page background would turn to black, but dark reds like in the Dreamwidth logo became light reds.
This was really useful for reading at night, and when I switched to a OnePlus and found it it doesn't have that toggle, and I couldn't find one to download that would do anything similar, I was extremely disappointed. Ebook readers do it, and I've selected a dark site skin on AO3 to accomodate mostly visiting it at night even if it is just to download things (and the dark skin doesn't bother me on the desktop or during the day).
Now, my latest phone, a OnePlus, does have a toggle that it calls Night Mode, but it doesn't invert anything; it applies a warm-light shade that turns everything a little bit yellowy-orangey and a tiny bit darker. That's also what the browser extensions I investigated do (and most of them don't really work on mobile anyway). I tried a few Android apps and browser extensions that purport to offer switching from dark-text-on-light to light-text-on-dark, but none of them worked.
I want my toggle back obviously, but it'd also be useful at the website level. Twitter has one, and I've often thought I'd like to have a shortcut for switching back and forth between the dark and default AO3 styles.
Also I toyed with a light-on-dark version of my Dreamwidth layout. But what I really want is to able to make a layout that has both modes and lets the viewer switch between them with a button. (You couldn't implement that higher than the layout/theme layer, because the style would require two complete stylesheets to work.) I have no idea how to do that though. I remember there's a style on Tumblr that has multiple color palette themes that the viewer can scroll through, though.
This was really useful for reading at night, and when I switched to a OnePlus and found it it doesn't have that toggle, and I couldn't find one to download that would do anything similar, I was extremely disappointed. Ebook readers do it, and I've selected a dark site skin on AO3 to accomodate mostly visiting it at night even if it is just to download things (and the dark skin doesn't bother me on the desktop or during the day).
Now, my latest phone, a OnePlus, does have a toggle that it calls Night Mode, but it doesn't invert anything; it applies a warm-light shade that turns everything a little bit yellowy-orangey and a tiny bit darker. That's also what the browser extensions I investigated do (and most of them don't really work on mobile anyway). I tried a few Android apps and browser extensions that purport to offer switching from dark-text-on-light to light-text-on-dark, but none of them worked.
I want my toggle back obviously, but it'd also be useful at the website level. Twitter has one, and I've often thought I'd like to have a shortcut for switching back and forth between the dark and default AO3 styles.
Also I toyed with a light-on-dark version of my Dreamwidth layout. But what I really want is to able to make a layout that has both modes and lets the viewer switch between them with a button. (You couldn't implement that higher than the layout/theme layer, because the style would require two complete stylesheets to work.) I have no idea how to do that though. I remember there's a style on Tumblr that has multiple color palette themes that the viewer can scroll through, though.
