alt Hacker NewsThere should be two dark modes: a simple dark mode, like most dark themes today, to work in dimmed lighting, and an actual night mode, designed to be legible but not mess with adaptation in total darkness. I don't know the research on this (and I'm sure military and aviation have lots of data here), but intuitively it should use mostly thin red and green lines.
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fhars • today at 12:30 PM
Like nightmode in Stellarium: https://www.stellarium-labs.com/blog/nightmode/
kotaKat • today at 10:59 AM
Give me back the Saab Night Panel. All I want is my speedo.
https://i0.wp.com/saabblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ni...
Some cars (Honda Civic) had this feature where you could change the theme of the UI and it had 3-4 presets (blue, red, amber, green IIRC). That was before those screens were just a built-in Android tablet and sadly it didn't carry over.
But you're right and it's the reason most german cars had red illuminated gauge clusters until a few years ago.