Getting Started
What Docs Dimmer does
Docs, Sheets, and Slides are bright white by design — and after a long day that wall of white is hard on the eyes. Docs Dimmer gives you a comfortable, adjustable screen without leaving the page or changing a thing in your document.
The problem it solves
Google's editors put a full-page sheet of bright white behind everything you write or build. There's no built-in way to soften it, so by the end of the day you're squinting at glare. Docs Dimmer sits on top of the page and lets you turn that brightness down — without touching the document itself or anything you share.
What you can control
- Dimming slider — darken the bright white page to a level that's easy on your eyes.
- Warmth slider — shift the colour temperature toward warm amber, night-light style, to cut blue-light glare.
- Dark mode — invert the document to a true dark theme with one click.
- Apply to — choose which editors are affected: Docs, Sheets, Slides, or any mix.
- Instant on/off — pause the effect anytime from the popup without losing your settings.
- Reset — return to sensible defaults whenever you like.
How it stays out of your way
The effect is drawn as two click-through overlay layers that sit on top of the page, so editing, selecting, and scrolling work exactly as before — Docs Dimmer never intercepts a click or changes the document. Everything applies live, with no page reload, and the maximum dimming is capped just short of fully black so the page always stays readable.
Who it's for
Anyone who spends long stretches in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides and wants a softer, warmer screen — especially in the evening or in a dark room — without changing what their documents look like to anyone else.
Related guides
Ready to install? See Install Docs Dimmer. Want the details? See Dim the page & warm the colour and Turn on dark mode.