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What to check before you ship.

Topic: dark-mode · clear

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A white sphere on a white cube, cut by a clean diagonal shadow into a bright half and a dark half, with a tiny lavender bead on the edge between them.
Checklist6 min

Dark mode done properly: the checklist we run on every app

The checks we use for a dark theme that feels designed rather than inverted: surfaces, colour, contrast, assets, system bars, launch flashes, charts and testing.

Elin · 1 October 2026

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