Currently on Roblox, the light Studio theme is too bright and highly contrasting for comfortable use.
Since light theme uses a pure white background with pure black text, the contrast ratio between text and background colours can be excessively high, leading to strain when trying to read small text. Additionally, dividers and borders are too pronounced, creating distracting and noisy boundaries between UI objects.
Dark mode does not suffer from this problem; the background shade is lighter, while text uses an off-white that has a less extreme contrast ratio. Borders and dividing elements are also much less prominent, meaning they don’t draw attention to themselves and allow the surrounding content to take priority.
This leads to a much more pleasant user experience, especially for the use cases in darkened rooms which dark mode is designed for.
A closer to ideal light theme would take design cues from dark theme and reduce the brightness of the background slightly, as well as potentially subtly lightening the text colour;
In the wider industry, we’ve seen this done before, for example across Office products;
By improving the light theme for Roblox Studio in the same way, developers will be able to more comfortably and easily use Studio, even when they prefer a lighter colour scheme.
