Turn Down the Lights! -Dark Reader-

It’s certainly true that, in the middle of a moderate to severe migraine attack, most of us will not be sitting at the computer. However, migraine patients can be sensitive to light at other times too. And so many of us are making use of “dark modes” on our devices.

We’ve talked about various options for improving the light of screens – including Iris, which cuts down on blue light in a very clever way.

But if you want to take “dark mode” to the next level in your browser, check out Dark Reader. Dark Reader aims to give you “Dark mode everywhere”, so that your experience with Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, Facebook, Fandom, Yelp – is a lot less bright.

Darkness, contrast, and even sepia can be controlled across all websites, or specific domains. Dark Reader is open source, and free (with a small one-time price for an iOS app).

You may find, as I did, that Dark Mode takes a little fiddling to get started. Make the icon is visible on your browser, and then play around with the settings for each site you want to control. There is a help page here.

Actually, the way that Dark Mode really stands out from the crowd is its contrast and “Light Mode”, believe it or not. Sometimes with dark modes, you’re stuck with a nice dark screen, but then you have bright white text. You can work around that using Dark Reader. For example, you can dim the whites, and still have black text.

Dark Reader also has an app for Safari on iOS iPad and macOS.

Dark Reader is available for Chrome (works with Brave), Edge, Firefox, and Safari. Check it out!