# Discourse logo is very hard to see on dark themes

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-logo-is-very-hard-to-see-on-dark-themes/199496>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [August 6, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-logo-is-very-hard-to-see-on-dark-themes/199496 "2021-08-06T22:15:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-logo-is-very-hard-to-see-on-dark-themes/199496/9 "2021-08-13T18:25:38Z")

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I made an update that adds a white background, so at least the logo is visible in dark mode.

I experimented with SVGs, which can support color-scheme media queries, but Github strips out inline SVGs (probably for security) and their CDN prevents the CSS from working from externally linked SVGs.

 ![Screen Shot 2021-08-13 at 2.23.58 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/6/16c43a247f92873b0510a5aaf863ade4c965a38b.png)

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