For space grey MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, Mojave Dark Mode is the new Aqua

Dark Mode in Mojave is the progression of Apple's work over the last few years that introduced developers to UI concepts — and the work that would be required to get their apps ready for Dark Mode in the future.   The concept of dark framing progressed with full screen iLife apps and then system wide support for third Full Screen Apps in macOS Lion, used minimal, UI to focus attention on what the user was doing — as Apple's own apps had explored. .   It looks like the screen melts into the keyboard with the kind of precision that Steve Jobs would unleash upon the world, developed out in the open as if in slow motion — and none of us anticipated it until it dropped.   Actually, it was not wholly unanticipated that with OLED coming, Apple would make UI cool new fashionable look — vast swing from the bright, light OS X interface with its hyperrealistic icons and glossy translucent effects..   Back in the early 2000s, ing off the power of OpenGL and GPUs to do unprecedented Quartz Compositor effects with translucency and texture mapping for Aqua — it turned the desktop into game, solid years ahead of Microsoft being able to copy it. .   Right now Apple is focused on the engine doing the drawing, and on the display — working to exploit the efficient, hyper contrast, ultra nature of OLED technology.   Compare the desktop examples below to see how Light and Dark Modes emphasize different elements ...   Mojave's Dark Mode appears reminiscent of NeXT's advanced desktop operating system that Jobs built in the late 80s after leaving Apple, and what he brought back to the company when he returned in 1997 — turning Apple around and saving it from collapse.  .   And it will also pop up in Touch Bar to tap rather than having to type it in, just like QuickType in iOS. .   And now Touch Bar's OLED Dark Mode is spreading across Mac in Apple's Mojave Public Beta...   Read more