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<\/p>\nMy eyesight being what it is, I\u2019m now almost to the point where I can not read a bright screen anymore: it\u2019s really painful on the eyes. Everything is much easier when the screen is dark. So, no surprise, I welcomed Mojave\u2019s Dark Mode as a blessing\u2013a perfectible one, though.<\/p>\n
Here is the list of the apps and utilities that help me to take full advantage of this. There are many more, but those are the one I use the most.<\/p>\n
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When I\u2019m not writing or reading some books, I\u2019ll probably be in a web browser. Safari supports Dark Mode, but it won\u2019t change the web pages themselves, most of which are using white or light background with dark text.<\/p>\n
Not anymore:<\/p>\n
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Dark Reader<\/a><\/strong> is an extension available for free for Chrome and Firefox and, as a paid extension, for Safari. It\u2019ll dynamically adapt most<\/em> pages to make them Dark Mode compatible. I won\u2019t list all the options it offers, let\u2019s just say there aren\u2019t that many pages that\u2019ll resist it (but there are).<\/p>\n As a free and cool alternative to Dark Reader, you can use @JiminyPan<\/a>\u2019s poor man\u2019s night mode<\/a>: it doesn\u2019t have as many options, but both are great tools to compensate what I consider an oversight and\/or a poor design choice from every single browser I tested.<\/p>\n NightOwl<\/a> is the utility that Mojave should have come with.<\/p>\n A fast way to toggle Dark Mode on and off (button, keyboard shortcut, schedule). And the ability to select apps you want to systematically use in Light Mode.<\/p>\n Very useful for those apps that are still not compatible with Dark Mode (looking at you, Druide Antidote<\/em>), where one need to use the Inverted colours<\/a> (this was written in French, in summary: one can use an accessibility feature of macOS, called \u201cInverted colours\u201d, to invert all colours on screen, making white into black on vice versa).<\/p>\n Ulysses<\/a> is where I\u2019ll do most of my writing. It fully supports dark mode:<\/p>\n As a side-note: I recently decided to use Ulysses for journaling too, replacing my long-term app of choice: DayOne<\/strong>. Not because of its lack of support of Dark Mode, DayOne is truly excellent in that regard, but because of DayOne\u2019s limited export capabilities\u2013another point where Ulysses shines, imo.<\/p>\n I like Preview, but PDF Expert<\/a> is better at least because it can display the PDF in inverted colours, aka \u201cNight Theme\u201d:<\/p>\n Multiple PDF opened in tabs and displayed in inverted colours.<\/em><\/p>\n Note that the app is regularly on sale, so be patient if you want to get it at a better price.<\/p>\n HazeOver<\/a> will display an overlay over all background windows, letting only the top window untouched. One could chose its colour (surprise: I use black). One can also easily control it\u2019s opacity with a cool gesture, or define apps where one do not want to have an overlay at all.<\/p>\n So useful when writing while watching some bright vid in the background \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n \u201cHu, Word?\u201d Microsoft has updated Word 365 to support Dark Mode but, exactly like Pages, running it in Dark Mode won\u2019t change the document content: black text on blindingly white background\u2026 Or does it? <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Word displaying a document in white on a black background. It\u2019s certainly not as finely tuned as Ulysses own darker mode, but it\u2019s very useable nonetheless.<\/p>\n Also, note the absence of margins and \u201cpages\u201d in this new mode, Word behave almost<\/em> like a standard text editor: a giant scroll of text, without border and page break: they\u2019re still there, though, just hidden while working in this mode. Styles will be used and images displayed, though.<\/p>\n To get to this, one need to use a newish feature of Word called the \u201cLearning tools\u201d, regrouping tools created to help students with disabilities, or with learning difficulties.<\/p>\n Go to the View<\/em> tab and click the Learning tools<\/em> button. That should have stripped Word of most of its UI, and a new Learning Tools<\/em> tab must be displayed in the Ribbon. You\u2019re almost done. Click on this new tab. Among a few other options (most of them useless for us, remember to deactivate the Text Spacing<\/em> and the Syllables<\/em> features) one can chose between three different backgrounds, go for Page Color->Inverse<\/em>. Done.<\/p>\n Many of Apple own apps are worth mentioning because of their excellent support of Dark Mode:<\/p>\n All of these apps are working great, nothing much else to say… even if I coud not overstate the usefulness of the Dictionary app: it\u2019s always been a great app, imo, but it is even more so since I decided to learn to write in English. But that\u2019s a whole other story.<\/p>\n The same apply for some third party apps that I use all day long and that, well, just work great:<\/p>\n <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My eyesight being what it is, I\u2019m now almost to the point where I can not read a bright screen anymore: it\u2019s really painful on the eyes. Everything is much easier when the screen is dark. So, no surprise, I welcomed Mojave\u2019s Dark Mode as a blessing\u2013a perfectible one, though. Here is the list of the … <\/p>\nNight Owl<\/h2>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NightOwl.jpg\")
<\/p>\nUlysses<\/h2>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Ulysses-1.jpg\")
<\/p>\nPDF Expert<\/h2>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/PDFExpert-1.jpg\")
<\/p>\nHazeOver<\/h1>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/HazeOver.jpg\")
<\/p>\nMicrosoft Word<\/h2>\n
\n\u201cYep, Word.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/word.png\")
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