Finally, a way to hit those deadlines at night without being blinded in the process. However, while this does make your screen less bright, it also makes it more difficult to see what you’re doing at night. You can choose to set the background of Google Docs to Dark mode and continue to work on the default white page, or you can make the entire experience a little less obtrusive by making the page dark too! The obvious non-Google Docs Dark Mode extension solution is to simply decrease your screen brightness. Safari adds a grey background to dark icons in dark mode (for example, Wikimedia Foundation, Github), so this workaround isnt necessary for legibility. The Google Docs Dark Mode extensions come with two primary options. In Chrome 76 with -enable-blink-featuresMediaQueryPrefersColorScheme, this correctly sets the icon when the page is loaded, but does not respond dynamically to changes in dark mode. If you’re one to work on a document late into the night, you will benefit from being able to do so without feeling like you’re staring directly into a light. Dark mode for Google Docs is nothing new if you’ve used the app on an Android device and can be incredibly useful.

Google Docs Dark Mode is a free Google Chrome extension by Ivan Hidalgo. But it’s always good to know you can, should you want to.

Google Docs isn’t an app most people use in Dark Mode.

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