Google Docs still opens as a bright white page at 2am. DocsNight fixes that specifically — no flash, no fighting the canvas renderer, under 50KiB, zero network requests.
Generic dark-mode extensions invert or filter the DOM — and Google Docs doesn't render its page as normal DOM. Large parts of the editor are drawn on canvas, which generic filters either miss entirely or mangle. DocsNight targets Docs and Drive specifically, so the editor, menus, and canvas layer stay legible together.
Toggle instantly with Alt+Shift+D, or set a default and forget it.
No frameworks, no bundler runtime shipped to the browser, no telemetry to phone home to. The whole extension is lighter than the favicon of most sites it's meant to darken.
DocsNight is distributed directly for now — Chrome won't install a downloaded .zip in one click, so it's a short manual load:
Download the .zip above and unzip it anywhere on disk.
Open chrome://extensions in a new tab.
Turn on Developer mode (top-right toggle).
Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.