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Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor?

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Re: Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor?

#42

prot’s ef-deuteranopia-dark, usually. https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes otherwise, some solarized variant.

I too use Prot's themes, but a different one per season:

  (defun light-theme-for-this-season ()
    "Return the light theme for this season."
    (pcase (current-meteorological-season)
      ('spring 'ef-spring)
      ('summer 'ef-summer)
      ('autumn 'ef-day)
      ('winter 'ef-light)))
Each season starts on the first of the month: March, June, September, December.

I also have a little script that switches to the dark theme with the rest of the system, and it loads modus-vivendi, another one of Prot's collection, now bundled with Emacs.

His themes are cool because he makes sure every colour has a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5, and because he doesn't agree with the stupid trend of making comments so light against the background, they're unreadable. Comments need to stand out!

Re: Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor?

#47

I'm impressed at just how hard it is to see what catppuccin actually looks like in VSCode without installing it first. The catppuccin github has no screenshots, and the catppuccin-for-vscode github/site has exactly one screenshot, which is split into diagonal "bands" for the four different versions of the scheme, and only one of those bands has a significant amount of code.

You can preview it in VSCode. Open command pallete, type "Color Theme", click on top on "Browse additional color themes", and type "catppuccin" in the box. Arrows up/down to preview, Enter to install it.

Re: Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor?

#49
post #42

prot’s ef-deuteranopia-dark, usually. https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes otherwise, some solarized variant.

I too use Prot's themes, but a different one per season: (defun light-theme-for-this-season () "Return the light theme for this season." (pcase (current-meteorological-season) ('spring 'ef-spring) ('summer 'ef-summer) ('autumn 'ef-day) ('winter 'ef-light))) Each season starts on the first of the month: March, June, September, December. I also have a little script that switches to the dark theme with the rest of the s…

add in some circadian.el and then you’re really cookin’ :)
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