Support for a 'true black' mode

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
design, frontend

Research direction

Start by reviewing Material UI's existing dark-mode palette and theme entry points, then check how palette options are documented and consumed by components. Define the expected true-black behavior and API surface before implementation, and verify that the resulting theme consistently uses #000000 where intended.

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Description

design scope: all components waiting for 👍

MUI has a great dark mode but for mobile devices that support AMOLED a real true black mode is going to be needed.

True black is basically #000000 for the background so that there is no light coming from those pixels on amoled... the backlighting is essentially off.

Text is much more readable on ipad , android, etc.

  • I have searched the issues of this repository and believe that this is not a duplicate.

Summary 💡

Probably just another palette color set. Not a TON of work and if we do it before you guys do I'll add the changes to this bug.

Examples 🌈

https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+true+black&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS920US920&sxsrf=ALeKk001aTMV5VNl6O9t9gtBJraZdKp8cg:1605382573826&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixj6qQ5ILtAhUDQ80KHac8D_sQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1629&bih=925&dpr=2.2

Motivation 🔦

Just trying not to burn my eyes out. With the current dark mode it's still too light on ipad... would look a lot better with a true black mode.

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