Examples the Material Design guide for dark themes. [Image: Google] Of course, a dark background with light text is nothing new.

The latest trend in app design—with black and gray backgrounds that mimic nighttime—has negligible benefits. But dark mode just looks cool.

Beyond Twilight, the new Themes interface also includes Sand, Midnight, Sky, and System Default modes. Like with Dark mode, ...

The reason for all this joy? Dark mode. Dark mode, or dark theme, is a light-on-dark colour scheme. Imagine a standard text document with black text against the white background of the digital page.

Why dark mode web designs are gaining popularity Dark mode web design has become increasingly popular with many internet users and surfers, click to read further why it is here to stay.

Following Gmail, Drive, and Docs, Google Calendar on the web is getting a Material You redesign that finally adds a dark theme.

Meanwhile, we’re now seeing this dark blue background in the Google app on Android. It’s only appearing on one device running the latest beta (version 16.3.32).

YouTube revamps its desktop site with an updated design, optional dark theme, and faster framework Sarah Perez 9:00 AM PDT · May 2, 2017 ...

Dark Theme is easier on the eyes, especially at night when your eyes are tired of staring at bright white backgrounds. Google's Material Design ethos is great – until it's blinding.

Learn how to enable Gmail dark mode for a comfortable reading experience at night on both desktop and mobile.