--- title: Choose your own dark mode | daily.dev description: A web developer experiments with adding a user-controlled dark mode color picker to their personal website. Rather than implementing a standard dark/light... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/choose-your-own-dark-mode-spbiqs4dm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Choose your own dark mode | daily.dev og:description: A web developer experiments with adding a user-controlled dark mode color picker to their personal website. Rather than implementing a standard dark/light... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/choose-your-own-dark-mode-spbiqs4dm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sPbIQs4Dm.png og:image:alt: Choose your own dark mode og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Choose your own dark mode **[dbushell](https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell)** · 2 min read · 37 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A web developer experiments with adding a user-controlled dark mode color picker to their personal website. Rather than implementing a standard dark/light toggle tied to system preferences, they let visitors pick their own dark color scheme via a native HTML color input. The result uses a duotone effect applied to the site's existing brand colors. The feature is experimental and does not persist the chosen color across sessions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > The native color input really does suck in every browser. The duotone result makes up for it. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dark Mode Toggle : Frontend Coding Exercises](https://daily.dev/posts/dark-mode-toggle-frontend-coding-exercises-mapdzpbjg) · Kirupa · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [The best dark mode toggle is probably none • Lea Verou](https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-dark-mode-toggle-is-probably-none-lea-verou-b87kcu2hu) · Lea Verou · 109 upvotes · 36 comments - [Trying out a Two-state Dark Mode Toggle—zachleat.com](https://daily.dev/posts/trying-out-a-two-state-dark-mode-toggle-zachleat-com-djhvmr6jc) · Zach Leatherman · 5 upvotes · 1 comments - [I Thought Dark Mode Was Just a Toggle. 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