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It may be hip and trendy, but put bluntly, Dark Mode likely makes those who turn it on slower and less productive. The human eyes and brain prefer dark-on-light, and reversing that forces them to work harder to read text, parse controls, and comprehend what you’re seeing. Except in extraordinary situations, Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way. Unfortunately, Apple’s marketing claims about Dark Mode’s benefits fly in the face of the science of human visual perception. But the Macintosh was the first mainstream personal computer whose screen tried to mimic paper.

Going even farther back, Douglas Engelbart’s “ Mother of All Demos” of the NLS also used a black-on-white display. This wasn’t exactly an innovation since the designers of the experimental Xerox Alto (which Apple’s engineers copied liberally) also chose to display text as black on a white background.

No, they weren’t, and one of the Mac’s most significant design decisions back in 1984 was an interface that put black text and graphics on a white screen, just as had been done in print for hundreds of years.

Have you ever wondered why, if Dark Mode is such a revelation, it took Apple 35 years after the first Macintosh to revert to the look of the light-on-dark CRT-based monitors of the Apple ][ and IBM PC era? Were those green-on-black and amber-on-black screens really so wonderful? Apple IIe with 2 Disk II drives and Apple Monitor II by Mystère Martin is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 For months after Mojave shipped, our Watchlist items dutifully reported that this app and that app now supported Dark Mode or had tweaked their support for it in some important way. Dark Mode works with built-in apps that come with your Mac, and third-party apps can adopt it, too.Īnd third-party apps have adopted it in droves. Switch it on in the General pane in System Preferences to create a beautiful, distraction-free working environment that’s easy on the eyes-in every way. The subtle colors and fine points of your content take center screen as toolbars and menus recede into the background. Apple even gives it the top spot on the macOS product page, saying:ĭark Mode is a dramatic new look that helps you focus on your work.