[mr_custard]

Agree - This GitHub theme is unfortunately too dark. Which is a shame, because I was genuinely excited to read that GH has released a dark mode.

I use many dark mode themes and have even created them. The important thing to constantly keep in mind whilst authoring a dark them is: resist the urge to go "too dark" and contrasty, and to keep checking against a known "good" reference.

If any GitHub execs are reading this, and would like to see an example of what we're talking about here, then the JetBrains "Darkula" theme in IntelliJ is a well done dark theme.

[Alex3917]

Yup. For me the Sublime default theme is perfect, whereas I find this new GitHub redesign to be basically unreadable.

[prathiks]

for me its not contrasty enough. I agree dark != pure black. but its not contrasty enough.