Nothing makes me sicker than a programmer who chooses the light theme rather than dark

I switch between them. Always dark theme at 5am.

Nothing? Not even nuclear war? 😮

oddly enough after years of using only dark themes I now use a lighter theme during the day and dark at night

@youprat This! haha I cannot for the life of me handle light

guilty ..since the other one gets me depressed

Unlike regular paragraph reading, programming requires constantly and quickly focusing in and out of individual words and lines, having our brains attempt to perceive meaning out of the structure, spacing, and color of the text. Light text on dark background yields much (and I mean MUCH) more contrast as opposed to dark text on a light background, resulting in a much faster and less confusing information-perceiving experience for the brain.

UX design + programming for life 👍

@danielkalen wow even if that's not even true I give you a +1 for something to tell my co-workers who are using light themes.

Speaking of UX, it seems the majority of studies in that regard suggests that reading larger bodies of texts with dark fonts on light backgrounds gives better results: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questio...

A big part of my day job is to read through a lot of code, so dark font on light fonts is the best setting for this and also feels right. As a background I use a very light gray instead of white as I find it much less strain and less tiring...