Some of you might look at the mockup I designed and wonder why this is a big deal, and I can't blame you for wondering.
(Note: I used Google's Product Sans to match the typography found on Android's quick settings, though it probably won't ship in Chrome OS anytime soon.) The black iconography and text contrast nicely with the overall light theme.
Unlike the dark and muted shelf found today, the shelf and system tray take on a bright white color scheme. My mockup isn't perfectly accurate, but even in broad strokes, these changes are pretty different from the way Chrome OS currently looks. Mockup of a possible Chrome OS light theme - though it may not be accurate to more recent changes. If we examine line 116 of Skia's SK_Color's header file, this reveals what SK_ColorWHITE is: The light mode base color of the login/lock screen when the color extractedĬonstexpr SkColor kLightModeBaseColor = SK_ColorWHITE įor reference, SK_Color is a function computed by Skia a graphics library used to render graphics and text on Chrome and Chrome OS. If you dig a bit deeper into the code, you'll reveal an interesting change in login_constants.h: The recently merged commit talks about a light theme for the login screen and updates a few buttons to match the theme. Last night, I discovered several commits in the Chromium Gerrit that point to a brand new light theme coming to Chrome OS. I think the developers at Google realize that having this inconsistent look is not the right play, so they decided to do something about it. But there's also some random splashes of dark theme elements in Chrome OS, like on the system tray and the Chrome OS launcher. Technically, Chrome OS is already using a "light" theme, like its file manager and the settings page. You might be asking yourself, "wait, I thought Chrome OS was already using a light theme?" Well, sort of. I did not expect Google also to be working on a light theme. I'll admit - I was unsure if this suggested we were getting a dark theme soon, but I knew it was coming thanks to several code changes discovered by Chrome Story. I bring this up because while I was writing that article, I noticed that some of the wallpapers in the Elements collection have light and dark variants.
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