“Solving a largely imaginary user goal”

On her blog, Lea Verou makes a case that each user-facing website dark-mode toggle should only ever show two options , but in a smart way. The challenge is that any dark mode toggle needs to actually accommodate three options: dark, light, and the default “whatever the system says” (which can be always dark, always light, or change with the time of day ). Many toggles simply pass that complexity…