{"id":25276,"date":"2019-05-15T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25276"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:23:37","slug":"designing-a-dark-theme-for-oled-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/designing-a-dark-theme-for-oled-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing a Dark Theme for OLED iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/lookup-design\/designing-a-dark-theme-for-oled-iphones-e13cdfea7ffe\">Vidit Bhargava<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1127629601189113856\">Ryan Jones<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/lookup-design\/designing-a-dark-theme-for-oled-iphones-e13cdfea7ffe\"><p>In an OLED display, the black pixel is essentially a pixel that&rsquo;s turned off. It doesn&rsquo;t consume any power. This is why OLED are able to show such rich dark colours and why dark themes are power-efficient.<\/p>\n<p>However, When an interface that uses a black theme for its background starts displaying content on the screen, the pixels needs to switch on before they can display the content. So, when you&rsquo;re scrolling through the content in a black background, the pixels find it hard to keep pace with your scrolling, resulting in a <em>smear<\/em> on the screen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He solves this by using dark grey, which still uses significantly less power than white.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/updating-from-an-iphone-se-to-an-xr\/\">Upgrading From an iPhone SE to an XR<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vidit Bhargava (via Ryan Jones): In an OLED display, the black pixel is essentially a pixel that&rsquo;s turned off. It doesn&rsquo;t consume any power. This is why OLED are able to show such rich dark colours and why dark themes are power-efficient. However, When an interface that uses a black theme for its background starts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-05-15T19:23:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"1af1edcc-b175-4ae8-afa3-6f9ca8bcd7ef","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-05-15T19:23:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGvHtzLF1Suivo2-cqLzX7w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,566,77,838,31,1610,85],"class_list":["post-25276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-batterylife","tag-color","tag-design","tag-display","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iphone"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25277,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25276\/revisions\/25277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}