Codimd: Feature request: Add light background editor theme

[sagesharp]

Greetings! I would really appreciate a setting in the editor page to change the background to white and the default text colors to be black. This would help me avoid eye strain.

Background: I wear reading glasses because I have Astigmatism. One eye has better reading sight than the other. This is only a problem when there's white text on a black background. I see a blurry, somewhat transparent duplicate of the line of text above the line of text I'm reading. When it's black text on a white background, I can ignore the duplicate as a "shadow". The white text on black background makes me focus on the fact that my eyes don't work right, and I end up getting distracted from the text or (if I spend too much time on it) with headaches.

A white background text editor would also be more welcoming to non-programmers, who have never seen a black-background text editor.

[SISheogorath]

There is actually already a light mode for the Editor (was there before the major night mode, so it simply got documented):

https://hackmd-ce.herokuapp.com/features#Night-Mode

[sagesharp]

Ah, I'm using the editor on https://hackmd.io/ I don't see an option to change to the light theme. They're missing the 'moon/sun' icons in the top bar in their version of the editor. I can contact their support if they just need to make a UX improvement.

Thanks for your quick response!

[SISheogorath]

For HackMD.io please use their issue tracker:

https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd-io-issues/issues

This is the issue tracker of CodiMD (former HackMD CE) which is for self-hosting

[ccoenen]

I'm closing this. If you have further questions, feel free to ask here or in hackmd-io-issues :-)