What’s Going On in Dark Theme / Light Theme Land – Frontend Masters Boost

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There has been a fresh round of enthusiasm and writing around light mode / dark mode support for the web lately. I think it’s driven partially by the new light-dark() function in CSS (CSS Color Module Level 5 spec) that makes it easier to declare values that change depending on the mode. Here’s the basic usage:

Source: What’s Going On in Dark Theme / Light Theme Land – Frontend Masters Boost

For some reason relatively recently I’ve become a bit obsessed wth light and dark modes. Seems a lot of designers/developers have.

Here Chris Coyier rounds up some recent developments in CSS as it relates to color schemes.