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This.
I have a tendency to stay up too late as well.
But I've recently taken to reading on my paperwhite kindle before bed. You can turn down the brightness quite low, and I find myself just getting sleepy and going to bed.
You can just have a shade of gray you prefer with a black background instead of fighting with absolutely retarded brightness anti-features.
It's often called "inverted colors" or whatever other cool name the software manufacturer decided to give it.
I'll give that a try, but haven't the UI people pretty well determined a long time ago that you want to read darker text on a lighter background?
Why should the UI people make decisions for you? Try it, you won't be disappointed.
Because lots of money and time are spent by smart people to get this right, and I don't see any reason to doubt that they've gotten this right.
I'll give it a try, though.
People are pretty attached to things being the way they've always been. White on black could leave readers feeling better, but manufacturers would still default to black on white because that's what seems normal to people from printed books.
Ergonomics people have actually studied this.
Have they proved that for moderate contrast rather than extreme contrast?
I don't know what they've proved, but given the sums of money and smart people involved in UI design, I expect they've worked this out. I'm not one to generally trust the authorities, but in this case I don't see any institutional reasons to expect them to get this wrong.
But I'll give it a try on my kindle.
You're confusing the question of whether the UI design people have correctly figured out the population average with the question of whether there is wide individual variation around that average.
It's pretty easy to figure out how you, personally, like to read text on a screen.