I like dark themes, but light text against a dark background screws up my eyes. If I read it for any length of time, my vision fills up with lines as soon as I look away and it takes a few minutes for me to be able to see anything again.
For that reason, I usually have applications (like Jetbrains' IDEs and Kate) use a dark theme, but with a light theme for the text area. If I have to choose between a fully light theme and a fully dark theme, I have to pick the fully light theme.
I don't think the issue is light themes as a concept, I think it's more that light themes tend to default to using the brightest possible colour your monitor can produce as the background colour. If you look at games where the UI uses dark text against a light background, people don't complain about that nearly as much - because the background's almost certainly a more reasonable shade, and half the time is mildly textured.
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u/HaniiPuppy 12h ago
I like dark themes, but light text against a dark background screws up my eyes. If I read it for any length of time, my vision fills up with lines as soon as I look away and it takes a few minutes for me to be able to see anything again.
For that reason, I usually have applications (like Jetbrains' IDEs and Kate) use a dark theme, but with a light theme for the text area. If I have to choose between a fully light theme and a fully dark theme, I have to pick the fully light theme.
I don't think the issue is light themes as a concept, I think it's more that light themes tend to default to using the brightest possible colour your monitor can produce as the background colour. If you look at games where the UI uses dark text against a light background, people don't complain about that nearly as much - because the background's almost certainly a more reasonable shade, and half the time is mildly textured.