Choose your own dark mode

Hello RSS reader! This post contains an interactive feature. Please visit the canonical web page for an optimal viewing experience :) When I redesigned my website earlier this year I removed dark mode. I never liked the colours, and the light switch toggle was so 2010’s.Personally I prefer reading with a dark theme for long-form content. Dark is not my brand though and I don’t believe every website needs to support colour scheme preference automatically. A good browser has reader mode, I use that all the time.An experimentBut what if I let my readers decide on a dark colour scheme?Below is a colour picker doohickey that should let you experience dark mode (on this page only). I’m testing in production (for reasons) so if it’s broken come back in an hour, or update your browser. It uses the native colour input which sucks in every browser. Theme colour: Toggle theme ⚠️ Warning: expect a sudden and dramatic colour shift. Try not to flashbang yourself.This is just an experiment so your…