Fake dark-mode for Windows desktop applications.

Intended to be used during Slack/Zoom/Teams calls where a teammate pulls up a very bright window and you have no defence... well now you can do something about it. Open a shades window and relax.

Also useful for legacy applications that only support light-mode.

shades darkens whatever it covers. If the screen beneath is mostly dark already, it does nothing.

The window will remember the last position and size it was used. When opened, the new window will be in the same place.

Interact with the window below as you normally would with a mouse. The shades window just darkens.

Check out the Releases page for prebuilt shades.exe.

Screen capture based on screenshot-rs.

Copyright (c) 2023 Aaron Haley.

shades is made available under the terms of the MIT License.

See the LICENSE file for license details.