Title: Dark/Light theme default support
Last modified: June 10, 2023

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# Dark/Light theme default support

 *  [Bunker D](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bunkerd/)
 * (@bunkerd)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dark-light-theme-default-support/)
 * Offering light and dark modes, typically based on OS preferences through [prefers-color-scheme](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme),
   isn’t only a nice feature: it is an [accessibility](https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/operating-system-and-browser-accessibility-display-modes/)
   feature.
 * It seems to me that **WordPress default themes** should integrate that. It also
   means adapting the theme customization tools accordingly. (It would also provide
   a good example for theme devs.)
 * Additionally, it would be good to [further upgrade](https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/responsive-images/)
   the **images handling** and update the **_Image_ block** in order to support 
   user-theme-dependent images. Let’s say your article include some graph that uses
   a black text and transparent background. It looks great with your bright theme,
   but is unreadable with the dark theme used when the reader has their OS in dark
   mode. You should be able to set an alternative picture for the dark mode.
 * (Ideally, you should also be able to add dark-mode-only CSS kinda everywhere.)
 * Note: I might and up trying to implement a plugin that would (poorly) handle 
   the alternate-image aspect of things. “Poorly” because it should probably be 
   dealt with not within the image _block_, but in the _media library_. I’m probably
   not knowledgeable enough to efficiently work on both the media library and the
   theme customization controls.

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