The blue light emitted by both mobile and computer screens, in the long term, if we spend many hours using them, they end up affecting our quality of sleep as well as causing eye pain. The number of apps adding support for dark mode is increasing little by little but it still has a long way to go. The same happens with web pages, although these go at a much slower pace.
Today, there are very few web pages that synchronize the theme that we have configured on our equipment and/or browser to show content in dark colors, mainly black or gray, instead of the traditional white color.
The lack of desire that many web developers have shown when it comes to offering support for dark mode on their web pages, has a very simple solution, a solution that, once again, comes in the form of an extension for Chrome and any other browser based in Chromium like Edge, Opera and Vivaldi among others. The number of extensions available in the Chrome Web Store is vast. Of all those available, below, we show you the best options.
Midnight Lizard
An interesting option that we also have at our disposal to change the background color of the websites that we visit regularly and that have not yet implemented this option natively is Midnight Lizard, an extension that includes a large number of color options. personalization that allows us to use any background color, not just black.
Super Dark Mode
We cannot fail to mention Super Dark Mode, an extension that, like the previous one, also offers a wide range of options of personalization including the possibility of activating and deactivating it automatically depending on which website we visit or establishing an operating schedule.
Dark Mode – Night Eye
The Night Eye extension not only allows us to replace the traditional white background of web pages with black, but also allows us to add a filter to reduce the blue light intensity that all the screens emit and that, in addition, is also capable of modifying the color of the images and icons that are displayed by darker tones. We must bear in mind that the more options we activate, the consumption of resources will be higher.
DarkReader
One of the best extensions to automatically change the background color of websites so that it becomes black is Dark Reader, an application that works perfectly on any web page. It works even on Web applications such as those that Google makes available to us through Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Other options
In addition to these four extensions, within the Chrome Web Store we can download the following as very good options to adapt any website we visit to dark mode.
- Lunar Reader. If we don’t like the black background color on a website, we can use this extension to replace the white color with a yellowish tone similar to the one we can find in the Windows Night Light mode.
- DarkPDF. This extension is responsible for replacing the white color of PDF files with black in the PDF files that we open with the Chrome browser.
- Amazing Dark Mode. An application that only allows us to replace the white color with black, without other configuration options.
