Screen Brightness Eye Strain

Some screens have dynamic brightness/contrast adjustment which can cause this effect.

It is likely that you have your display brightness too high. Indoors, in light mode, most modern screens need to be set at 50% or lower brightness.

Download ColorVeil and knock down the brightness of your current setup, if that doesn't work then maybe go with OLED instead.

I find light mode painful even on minimum brightness.

Screen brightness makes a big difference.

Do they adjust brightness or fake it by adjusting colour output?

Tip: If light mode hurts your eyes, your monitor is too bright for your environment. My LG is set to 50%, for example.

It's still uncomfortable to have 10% of the screen get ridiculously bright.

Yeah, this! Nobody wants a #FFFFFF page at 1600 nits, unless it's noon and they are outside!

I'm almost 50. And I have a big problem with my display, even during the day I run it at 0% brightness. During the night it's really way too bright. This is why I use dark mode. I also sometimes reduce the contrast but this messes up colour accuracy in a bad way.I agree it's not really a content issue as much as a hardware issue. LCD screens have a limited backlight range and seem to be optimised for peak brightness not lowest brightness. Probably because big numbers sell bette