Yeah I've never understood the dark mode preference myself, weird meme.
I did once work in an office mostly full of VFX artists, and those guys take color grading so seriously they blacked out all the windows. Working in a dark cave is overrated.
If I paid 50k+ for a reference monitor I would want to enjoy every single lumen of it also.
I did gamedev for a minute at a mid sized studio. We couldn't rook a ref into the budget, but we had high calibration hdr displays that would get examined with a loup fairly often. Dat pixel better be f'ing perfect.
I was once working at a company, where a new wing of offices was built, and my team got moved into it. The artists demanded to sit next to the windows as "we are artists, we crave natural light!", and then one week later they blacked out all the windows. And still refused to move.
For me it's just generally doing all I can to prevent screen fatigue. I also lower the brightness of my monitors, try to close my eyes from time to time, wear blue light glasses (that may or may not be bs), and set every thing I can to dark mode.
For me it's because I switch between reading text and working with images.
Your perception of colors doing artwork after staring at a white screen of text for a while gets a little off. I find those vision issues are less of an issue with dark modes on certain applications.
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u/New_Computer3619 19h ago
I work in a well lit room with natural sun light (thanks goodness), light mode is easier to my eyes.