Last May, Google gave YouTube a substantial facelift when it updated the platform’s visuals to bring them in line with the company’s “Material Design” philosophy.
YouTube’s new look is much cleaner and arguably easier to navigate, but there’s more to the redesign than meets the eye. The visual overhaul also gave us the “Dark Mode” feature, a toggle that makes it more comfortable for users to browse the site at night by inverting YouTube’s color scheme.