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Advantages of dark backgrounds on computer displays

When dark backgrounds are *not* good

Unfortunately people are sometimes forced to use light backgrounds for software-only reasons, since not all software has been properly constructed to work in a dark background (and some “high-end” websites do not function well when accessibility CSS files are applied); hopefully more developers can be made aware of the need to construct things in a “customisation-friendly” way.

References

Due to the shortage of rigorous scientific studies on the subject, the above is mostly based on my own experience and that of other people I’ve met (with various sight conditions)—I’ve been focusing on technical ways to *enable* dark backgrounds rather than on the proof that we need them. But I have collected a *few* citations if this helps:

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