Designing dark mode

Design considerations for crafting a great dark mode.

Lukas Oppermann
UX Collective
Published in
17 min readSep 19, 2022

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Cover — Designing dark mode

In this article I discuss the key aspects to consider when designing a dark mode/theme. Everything from colors and shadows to icons and typography.

This is a two-part series:

  1. Implementing dark mode
  2. Designing dark mode

What is dark mode?

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Product designer with a love for complex problems & data. Everything I post on Medium is a copy — the originals are on my own website: https://www.vea.re