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Improved Dark Mode support

Prefer seeing white text on a black background? Tired of having to enable a dark color scheme on every Discourse site you visit manually? Discourse now support automatic dark mode. Discourse will detect your system preference, and automatically select a light or dark color scheme as needed.

Admins can enable this feature by selecting the dark mode color scheme with the default_dark_mode_color_scheme_id site setting. Admins may also wish to add separate logos for dark color scheme users via the logo_dark , logo_small_dark , and mobile_logo_dark site settings.

If you have a custom theme, you might need to update the theme to use CSS custom properties for the colors. Without that, the theme might not be compatible with automatic dark mode switching.

I’ve been messing with the themes for the site. I wanted to have a base light/dark theme, which are now active. You can actually switch between themes from the menu, for quick switching.

If someone is interested in creating a theme/palette for talkgroup, please create a message in Meta and we’ll do it.

So, we have the basis for “Dark Mode support”, but what I want to know is… what is “Dark Mode”? Which systems have dark mode, and how do they expose that information to web servers?!