Everyone ships dark mode. Fewer ship a dark mode that survives contact with a real phone.
The details that give you away
- A white status bar over a dark page — the browser chrome must follow the page background, not a hard-coded value.
- A blinding flash of light theme on first paint.
- Images that glow like billboards at night.
Our rules
The document background and the system chrome read from the same variable, so they can never disagree. Theme resolution happens before first paint. And every surface is checked in both modes across every palette — because a token that looks fine in one palette can vanish in another.
Dark mode is not a color scheme. It is a promise that nothing will surprise your eyes.
