Light Vs Dark Themes what is your preference?

It totally depends, even my phone supports dark mode I never use it, although in my code editor (VS code) I use dark themes with colorful text. I don't know why but those themes make me like coding more (lol).

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Of course there are exceptions. I have been using Figma, Adobe XD and Typora for writing all of my blog posts on here and they ALL have light themes. So sometimes it depends on the circumstances and my mood can change like the colour theme.

After using both for a while I prefer light theme, I thought I'd like dark theme but I found them hard to see in many cases, especially texts are so small in many coding cases.

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Depends on how lighter is the local/room I am in. For de lighters one, light mode turn ligilibility easier, for the other cases dark theme is the choice.

I have always been a fan of dark mode no matter the time or place, I personally think that dark mode is made for anytime and anywhere. You can use it during the day or night and its more soothing to the eyes while light mode will make your eyes hurt when used in the dark. Plus I am just used to using dark mode as i have been using it for probably 2 yrs+.

90% of the time I use and prefer light theme. Unless it's really really really dark in my room, most dark themes are unusable thanks to poor contrast. I do love light & sun even (especially) when coding and the stereotypical "the display brightness is burning my eyes" is rarely an issue to me.

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Examples:

• Blog posts, articles, books, etc (basically everything that has more than a few sentences to consume): light mode the majority of the time. I have difficulties reading big chunks of text on a dark background no matter the contrast.
• Except when I'm having a bad headache, then dark mode for everything (where it's convenient to switch) cause the light makes it worse.
• Things like Twitter (short sentences, lots of input, usually on my phone), almost always dark mode by default.
• If I'm reading in bed with the lights off, often dark mode too so the light doesn't wake up my fiancée.
• On my phone I don't bother to switch from the default a lot of the time because the toggles aren't always easy to find and I don't have patience.
• Etc.

I never use dark modes/themes, tried them a few times but every time after 5 seconds I switch back to light ... but I noticed that dark mode is really popular.