Our designers create dark mode by inverting the light tokens. Results…

Navya Pillai

iOS Engineer | Swift, SwiftUI | Health & fitness apps | Accessibility advocate

Our designers create dark mode by inverting the light tokens. Results are... mixed. Do you design dark mode separately?

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Ananya Rao5 Oct 2026
Design the tokens separately. Inverting gives you muddy greys and wrong contrast. Elevation works differently in dark mode too.
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Neha Trivedi5 Oct 2026
Learnt this the hard way on my last project 😅

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