Why is Dark Mode so captivating?
And the reasons you should be already using it.
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6 min readMar 19, 2022
The Dark Mode is an epidemic that has swept across the globe and right into our smartphones. Also known as the light-on-dark-color scheme, night mode, or black mode, it is not new at all. Computers screens originally used what we now know as Dark Mode, because of the capacities of the cathode-ray tubes used in early devices. But in a bid to encourage people who weren’t programmers to use computers, interfaces were gradually adapted to resemble real paper — black over light-colored background.
