new_blog/posts/platonically-ideal-light-dark-toggle.md

title	description	date	draft	tags
Making a platonically ideal light/dark theme toggle on the web		2025-08-20	true

Many blogs and other sites have a way to toggle between their light and dark themes. However many of these toggles are... not ideal, making various tradeoffs. So I thought it'd be interesting to explore these tradeoffs and throw my own hat into the ring with a potentially better solution.

What Does it Mean to be Ideal?

The Obvious Way

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The obvious way to attempt a toggle between light and dark mode is

A Suboptimal Solution

A trick from from

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An Ideal Stateless Toggle

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An ideal solution