Shades

Your computer monitor emits significant amounts of blue light that can cause eye strain, especially during the night, when the screen brightness might be too intense. Research has shown that tinted lenses of computer glasses or a yellowish screen color might increase eye comfort when looking directly at the monitor. As a consequence, various software applications out there are designed to protect your eye sight in different ways, allowing you to spend more time in front of the PC during nighttime without feeling discomfort. Shades is one of them.

Packed inside a lightweight installer, Shades is launched in the system tray. You can easily open its main window from the right-click menu.

The one-window interface displays the current time and the system up-time as an extra information alongside the light and brightness adjustment options.

Shades encompasses a slider to help you easily adjust the brightness level of your monitor. It can make it look darker or lighter to help you reach a comfortable level.

Aside from that, you can use Shades to place a colorful veil on your desktop. In other words, it can make your entire screen look colored. Non-blue tints should be used during nighttime to increase eye protection and reduce their stress level. The color palette is quite generous, so you will surely find a color that you like.

Shades can be configured to load at Windows startup. It remembers your previous configuration, so you don't have to do it all again. Unlike its competitors, it does not allow automatic brightness adjustments based on the room light, but it does provide a science backed-up method to protect your eyes