QUESTION OF THE WEEK
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Can you make your emails dark-mode friendly?
— Anonymous
This was quite a timely question and I'm happy with it since I can give you some backstage insights.
You might have noticed layout issues over the past two issues. I switched my email provider to (Convert)Kit which required me to start over. I've used a self-hosted Sendy service for 5+ years, but it became more unreliable by the time my newsletter scaled to 20K+ subscribers.
The dark mode issues should now be fixed and I'm actually ramping up to be in a better place than before:
- I made a new SwiftUI automation app for curating articles
- You can now affiliate this newsletter (see bellow)
- The design of this newsletter is slightly different, with an improved readability experience as a goal
I aim to make this the best newsletter in the community and 2025 will all be about ramping up its quality. Therefore, if you feel like something can be improved, feel free to reply directly to this email to get a personal reply.
Finally, the one asking this question asked how I made this email dark-mode friendly. ConvertKit, although an amazing tool, doesn't support this out of the box.
The key change I had to make was:
- Adding custom CSS with a dark mode media query
- Apply a :root color-scheme and supported-color-schemes CSS configuration
Slowly but surely, this newsletter will improve. Stay tuned!
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