Choose your own dark mode

Thursday 16 Jul 2026

When I redesigned my website earlier this year I removed dark mode. I never liked the colours, and the light switch toggle was so 2010’s.

Personally I prefer reading with a dark theme for long-form content. Dark is not my brand though and I don’t believe every website needs to support colour scheme preference automatically. A good browser has reader mode, I use that all the time.

An experiment

But what if I let my readers decide on a dark colour scheme?

Below is a colour picker doohickey that should let you experience dark mode (on this page only). I’m testing in production (for reasons) so if it’s broken come back in an hour, or update your browser. It uses the native colour input which sucks in every browser.

Theme colour:

⚠️ Warning: expect a sudden and dramatic colour shift. Try not to flashbang yourself.

This is just an experiment so your colour choice will not persist. If you want to keep it, like and subscribe and @ me on the socials. Use your preferred hex code as a hashtag.

Here’s how my homepage looks with a dark blue scheme.

dbushell.com homepage with a white text on dark blue colour scheme.

I reckon the duotone effect works much better than trying to invert my brand colours.