Read like on paper with E-ink mode

Some people find it tiring to read a book on a computer. White light, bright colors and busy pictures are the main reasons. E-ink mode makes a page quiet: a paper color, ink for the text, grayer pictures and no moving parts.

A web page cannot change the real backlight of your screen. Paper lowers the brightest white that the page can show and takes out some blue light instead.

Turn it on

Click the Tintly icon in the toolbar. In the row of mode buttons, choose Paper or E-ink. Each is one click.

Two sliders replace the five. Brightest white and Less blue light change how bright and how warm the page is. Choosing the other one of the two styles starts again from its defaults.

Style	Made for	What you get
E-ink	Black and white screens and high contrast reading	White paper, black ink, grays only, 8 gray levels, grayer pictures, no animation, transitions, smooth scrolling or shadows
Paper	Ordinary screens	A warm paper color, soft dark brown ink, a little color (35 percent), a little less white and blue light, pictures with the same little color and a bit darker

Pages that are dark become light paper too. Tintly does not leave them as they are in this mode.

Change the details

Open Settings and go to Appearance. The section E-ink and Paper shows when the mode is Paper or E-ink.

• Style starts again from the defaults of that style.
• Paper color takes any color. The four small circles are quick choices: Cream, Soft yellow, Light gray and White.
• Brightest white sets how bright the page white may be, in percent of what your screen can show.
• Less blue light takes blue out of every color.
• Contrast makes borders and gray surfaces stronger or softer. Text keeps at least 7 to 1 contrast in E-ink and 4.5 to 1 in Paper.
• Color sets how much of the color of the page is kept, from 0 (grays only) to 100 (the colors of the page). E-ink starts at 0 and Paper at 35.
• Pictures is Follow the color setting, a little dimmer, Gray, Gray and dimmer or Keep as they are.

Gradients are flattened in this mode. A gradient with only solid colors becomes one color of the paper. A glow or a fade, which has a transparent part, is dropped. A gradient on top of a picture, for example a dark veil under a title, stays. The letters of a title that is filled with a gradient become ink.

Choose More options for the rest. It is closed until you open it.

Setting	What it does
Ink color	The color of text
Apply the color to everything, emoji and pictures too	Takes the color of emoji, canvas drawings, vector pictures and other things that the theme cannot reach down to the Color setting. It is on in E-ink and off in Paper, because it also softens the paper tint
Gray levels	Rounds colors to 2, 4, 8 or 16 grays, or leaves them smooth
Picture contrast	Contrast of gray pictures
Thicker lines on controls and focus	Thicker borders on buttons and fields, and a thick focus ring
Stop animations, Stop transitions, Stop smooth scrolling, Remove shadows	Each one on its own
Tell pages I prefer less motion	Pages that ask the browser for less motion, in script or in their style sheets, get a yes
Font and Heavier text	Keep the page fonts, Book font (serif), Plain font (sans-serif) or My own font, and bolder letters
Restore the defaults of this style	Puts every setting of the mode back

Links in this mode have a line under them. To turn it off or on, use Underline links in the Color vision card.

Use it on one site or at night

• In Settings, Sites, choose E-ink under Mode for a site. A Style field appears for that site.
• In Settings, Schedule, set What to do to Switch between two modes. Then choose the mode inside and outside the schedule, for example E-ink at night.
• Save current theme in Appearance saves all these settings in a preset.

The mode works in every browser that runs Tintly.