Lights Out
V 1♥- Browser Extension
A dark mode browser extension. Lights Out gives any website a nighttime look.
About this project
Lights Out is a Chrome extension that intelligently darkens any webpage — not with a flat color-invert filter, but by reading each element’s actual background and text colors and remapping only the light ones toward a deep nighttime palette, preserving each site’s own hues and identity. It includes a per-site light/dark toggle, an adjustable darkness level, automatic detection of sites that already have their own dark theme (so it doesn’t double-darken them), optional low-contrast edge highlighting, and an ambient particle overlay (stars, fireflies, or snow) that avoids painting over video and embedded content. An experimental second engine samples a page’s whole color palette and buckets surfaces into discrete depth levels, so visually similar elements (like nested cards) stay distinguishable instead of collapsing into one flat gray.
Version timeline
- V 1
How well it works
Install Instructions: 1. Download the project folder 2. Unzip the folder 3. Go to your browser (Chrome or Microsoft Edge) 4.Click extensions on the right of the screen 5. Click Manage Extensions 6. Click Load Unpacked 7. Select the Lights Out folder. 8. Adjust your extensions settings to whatever you prefer 9. Install complete.