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Owen Williams
Former TNW employeeOwen was a reporter for TNW based in Amsterdam, now a full-time freelance writer and consultant helping technology companies make their word Owen was a reporter for TNW based in Amsterdam, now a full-time freelance writer and consultant helping technology companies make their words friendlier. In his spare time he codes, writes newsletters and cycles around the city.
Any developer can relate to this: moving from the safety of your dark-themed text editor and opening Chrome’s developer tools, only to be blinded by its immaculate whiteness.
Thankfully, Google has finally given in to a request that developers were constantly asking for: Chrome’s developer tools now have a dark mode that’s officially included in the browser.
The updated developer tools feature a lovely darker background, adjusted fonts and an updated dark-mode inspector tooltip for good measure.
The developer tools update also includes a number of other changes, such as support for custom CSS variables and a smarter auto-complete engine.
Dark mode is only available in Chrome Canary right now, but it’ll make its way down to the stable build when Chrome 50 is released in a few weeks time.
Adventurous bleeding-edge developers already using Canary can try it out by going to the developer tools settings, then changing the theme to ‘dark.’
➤ DevTools go dark [Chrome developers]