Light mode is the default to Coder v1 as well.

Here in the EU/Germany there are currently some laws on the way that will force some areas to only use software with good accessibility. This includes for example high-contrast UIs, the usage of screen readers, keyboard-only navigation and the possibility to zoom up to 400%.
We are currently evaluating coder for some customers which will be affected by that and already have high standards for accessibility. Could you please keep that in mind while working on that? Currently i am not aware of how good coder already is with accessibility and of course coder also don't need to be perfect (i don't know any software that is) but that could make things way easier in the long term here.

Related to https://github.com/coder/coder.com/issues/306

cc: @aslilac as you were recently looking into this.

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We're actively working on a light theme! It should be out in the next 1-2 releases :)

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hi! specifically, I'm the one working on it. progress has just been a bit slow with holidays and some travel popping up lately, but we've got an early version that I'm currently working on polishing up.

FYI, our logo in the upper-left basically disappears when using the Light theme.

yeah, issues with custom icons/logos are pretty much the main reason that it's marked as a "preview" instead of a stable feature. we're still trying to come up with a proper solution. if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

It does work very well (version v2.6.0+b3e3521), thank you @aslilac !

happy to hear it! feel free to share any issues you notice here. (icons have already been fixed, and will in the next release)

@aslilac what work remains to getting light theme out of "preview" mode and closing out this issue?

I haven't been hearing any bug reports about in lately, so maybe nothing?

Any solution to the white/black logo problem in that if your logo is either color it will disappear on that color theme?

it's a little magical and undocumented, by you can hint at how an image should be displayed by tweaking the url. if you set the url as something like https://cdn.example.com/logo.svg?monochrome we can tweak some things to try to make it look good on light and dark backgrounds.

there's also ?blackWithColor and ?whiteWithColor. there might be some places hiding that we don't apply those filters when we should, but most fields that accept a custom image url should respect those settings.