Dark theme box shadow

[jdanyow]

Unnatural? Outrageous? Should we remove it? I don't think we really put much thought into it when we overhauled themes... hard to remember that far back 🤷‍♂️

I can't stop thinking about this tweet

[heskew]

Wait, what? The slight glow at the edges of the boxes that looks like some light reflecting off the edges? Seems natural enough to not worry about. It's all about perspective.😏

[Courtny]

It's goofy. We should remove it.

We also should spend some time (in the future) doing an actual proper overhaul of our Dark Theme as a design system team. Check out the retrospective of the effort that went into Dark Mode on Stack Overflow. Much nuance and wow!

[heskew]

But then I won't feel like I'm in the early-mid 2000s 😢

We also should spend some time (in the future) doing an actual proper overhaul of our Dark Theme as a design system team.

^^ yes please

[jdanyow]

Looking forward to that! We've done the work to abstract away the palette from the functional/semantic colors. Lot of flexibility to tailor things for specific themes like high contrast.

[maschad96]

I vote for removing it. It feels like a default photoshop 'outer glow' filter, and the tweet is accurate 😂

[heskew]

don't worry. it's just light from your monitor escaping through the edges of the block elements. helps to keep the backlight from overheating...

[jdanyow]

it's box-sizing:content-box leaking out