Dark Mode for Web

Hi, I just wanted to share this hack in case it helps anyone else. I’ve been using the Dark Mode setting on the mobile reader, and the lack of dark mode was the biggest barrier in switching to web. Anyway, here’s what I did to enable dark mode in Chrome:

  1. Install the Dark Mode Chrome Extension here: Dark Mode - Chrome Web Store
  2. Open the extension settings and choose “Dark Mode - Custom dark” and paste in the following code (note: not my code - copied from the “simple dark” setting):

/****************** begin code ********************/
html, html * {
color: #eeeeee !important;
background-color: #292929 !important;
}

html, body, html::before, body::before {
background-image: none !important;
}

img, video {
z-index: 1;
}
cite, cite * {
color: #029833 !important;
}
video {
background-color: transparent !important;
}
input, textarea {
background-color: #333333 !important;
}
input, select, button {
background-image: none !important;
}
a {
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01) !important;
}
:before {
color: #eeeeee !important;
}
:link, :link * {
color: #8db2e5 !important;
}
:visited, :visited * {
color: rgb(211, 138, 138) !important;
}
.sentence-text .sentence-item.lingq-word.lingq-status-0 {
background-color: #9e8f11 !important;
}
.sentence-text .sentence-item.lingq-word.lingq-status-1,
.sentence-text .sentence-item.lingq-word.lingq-status-2 {
background-color: #756a08 !important;
}
/****************** end code ********************/

Optional, but if you’re using a Macbook Pro like me and you want to make the text window wider, try this as well:

/****************** begin code ********************/
.container {
width: 1800px !important;
}

.lesson-card .lesson-content .content-left {
flex: 6 !important;
}
/****************** end code ********************/

Hope this helps someone!

How do you use dark mode on iPad?

On the LingQ app, go to “More …” in the bottom right, then tap “Settings” under "Account, then enable Dark Theme (this is what I do on Android, but my bet is that the steps would be very similar, if not the exact same, for iPad)

The dark mode isn’t available on iOS app at the moment, but it will be added in the upcoming update to 5.0 version.

btw if you set windows to dark mode or high contrast mode it works too.

ouch. I have floaters and just found out dark mode really helps me a lot. I hope 5.0 isn’t too far away.

You can go to the accessibility options of iOS and configure that colors get inverted by triple-pressing the home button (or power button on newer devices without a home button I guess). Not a real dark mode put quite similar.

I never use dark modes. I don’t like them.