Mark Boulton avatar Mark Boulton

Optical Size tweaking for dark mode

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Most type considerations for dark mode are exclusively colour. Changing the foreground and background on a toggle or by the user’s OS preferences. But, it shouldn’t stop there. Typographic considerations for dark mode should extend to line height and spacing, font weight, and finally, optical size.

Light type on a dark background on a digital screen is optically higher contrast.