In another episode of “I’ve been a web designer for how long and am only now learning about this?” let’s talk about CSS system colors. Background On my blog, I support light and dark mode which is all controlled by prefers-color-scheme in my stylesheet. However, the implementation might not be what you imagine. A common pattern for doing light/dark mode is to use CSS custom properties for color va
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