Outlook.com snags dark mode as new design exits beta

Not long after teasing its impending arrival before in July, Microsoft is at present rolling out a dark mode to all Outlook.com users. Built off of the Halloween theme that Microsoft introduced last year, the new dark mode operates exactly as you'd await, transforming Outlook.com's typically bright experience into a darker i with deep greys and blacks accented with bluish and white text.

From Microsoft (via The Verge):

I of the about crucial principles we had when designing Dark Mode was to minimize the amount of eye strain that people felt. Many email clients on the web today annunciate a night manner, but nosotros learned from interviews with others and our own usage that having the reading pane be on-light while the rest of the interface was left on-dark often made the feel worse than if the full screen were left on-lite.

Dark style tin be toggled on through the quick settings pane with the flip of a switch. For at present, the role simply works with the default bluish theme. However, Microsoft appears to take plans to make the dark experience compatible with more themes in the hereafter.

Finally, in addition to the dark mode, Outlook's new design is now leaving beta. "Nighttime Manner is available on the new Outlook.com experience (formerly known as the Outlook.com Beta experience) just," Microsoft says. Equally of this writing, nosotros're still seeing a beta toggle on Outlook.com, but that will presumably be removed soon.

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