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== A lower-contrast dark mode? ==

I really like that users now have the option to view Wikipedia in dark mode. However, the background is pure black. This is a good thing to some people, but for a lot of people the high contrast between the black background and white lettering can cause eye strain. For me, I don't like looking at Wikipedia's dark mode because it makes my eyes feel weird. This isn't really a problem because I usually prefer light mode anyway, but it would be nice to have a dark mode to switch to at night that's comfortable to look at.

My proposal: a third mode, where the background is dark gray or a low-saturation navy, and text is a slightly more muted shade of white. Several sites have a default dark mode that looks like this, and then a separate mode where the background is pure black. I feel like lots of people would appreciate a dark mode without such high contrast.

[[User:Sentimental Dork|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: darkblue">Sentimental Dork</span>]] ([[User talk:Sentimental Dork|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: darkblue">talk</span>]]) 23:16, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

:I don't know if there is an easy way to do this unless you can switch to a different skin with darker colors at night. The way dark mode works (as I understand it) is that the whole page is inverted, then things that shouldn't be inverted are un-inverted (like images). -- [[User:Reconrabbit|<span style="color:#4E8321">Recon</span>]][[User talk:Reconrabbit|<span class="skin-invert" style="color:#073131">rabbit</span>]] 17:31, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
::The dark mode gadget does that. The dark mode that is part of the Vector2022 skin uses a color palette and sets it based on which mode is in use. Users can override those colors in their [[Special:MyPage/common.css|personal common.css file]], but you need to be comfortable with CSS to do this (for anyone interested, see {{section link|mw:Recommendations for night mode compatibility on Wikimedia wikis|Target night mode using standard media query as well as HTML classes}} and {{section link|mw:Recommendations for night mode compatibility on Wikimedia wikis|Use CSS variables or CSS design tokens with fallback for background and text where possible}}). [[User:Isaacl|isaacl]] ([[User talk:Isaacl|talk]]) 17:53, 10 March 2026 (UTC)