Nick Colley

Microsoft are planning on bringing dark mode support to Google Chrome. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215473/google-chrome-dark-mode-windows-macos-support

It would be interesting to consider an implementation of dark mode with [CSS custom properties](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/--*) as it'd also allow easy dynamic theming for anyone for example people who use their...

[Smashing magazine tweet with some links to dark mode related articles](https://twitter.com/smashingmag/status/1095940956661141506?s=17)

> Wow, stat from (or at least via) Microsoft: High contrast themes are active on 4% of Windows machines. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2019Feb/att-0000/CSSWG_F2F_High_Contrast.pdf … Seems to be some momentum building in the CSS...

> I’m collecting developer feedback on 🌑Dark Mode☀️ on operating systems and potentially the web (`@​media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {…}` anyone?) for the @GoogleChrome team. > > Your quick _anonymous_ input...

- [Dark Mode Support in WebKit](https://webkit.org/blog/8840/dark-mode-support-in-webkit/) - [`color-scheme` proposal](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-adjust-1/#color-scheme-prop)

I think one of the less understood aspects of dark modes for me right now is defaults. Do users that enable this system level want the website to be dark...

Talking about which colours contrast well with each other: x-gov chat: > It would be nice if they listed the acceptable combinations to save you and everyone else testing them...

@alaricking thanks for letting us know, we're doing some work on that very soon: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/issues/1137

Do we need to associate this information in anyway for users with access needs? If the `+44` input indicates that we are looking for a UK telephone number, should that...