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Dracula Pro

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Re: Dracula Pro

#11

Post by syspec »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #4

He cited color theory. Isn't color theory made up of an arbitrary choice of three colors? Additionally the color spectrum is one dimensional because it's really just frequency of light. Geometric symmetry on an arbitrary mapping of the actual one dimensional concept of color to a two dimensional plane doesn't really "improve" anything. If you like it, you like it because of your opinion, please don't cite any pseudo…

If you use Intelli-J IDE's you should check out https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui

"Dracula Pro" looks a lot like this with a different font (which is also an option in Material Theme)

Re: Dracula Pro

#12

Post by syspec »

syspec wrote: post #11
crimsonalucard wrote: post #4

He cited color theory. Isn't color theory made up of an arbitrary choice of three colors? Additionally the color spectrum is one dimensional because it's really just frequency of light. Geometric symmetry on an arbitrary mapping of the actual one dimensional concept of color to a two dimensional plane doesn't really "improve" anything. If you like it, you like it because of your opinion, please don't cite any pseudo…

If you use Intelli-J IDE's you should check out https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui "Dracula Pro" looks a lot like this with a different font (which is also an option in Material Theme)

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Re: Dracula Pro

#14

Post by contravariant »

crimsonalucard wrote: post #4

He cited color theory. Isn't color theory made up of an arbitrary choice of three colors? Additionally the color spectrum is one dimensional because it's really just frequency of light. Geometric symmetry on an arbitrary mapping of the actual one dimensional concept of color to a two dimensional plane doesn't really "improve" anything. If you like it, you like it because of your opinion, please don't cite any pseudo…

It's slightly more than just frequency. Magenta colours don't show up in the spectrum for instance.

But yeah it's basically just hue, saturation and brightness. And your choice of colourspace is more or less arbitrary although there's been quite a bit of research on what colours humans consider to be 'close' or 'equally bright' and even which combinations are 'pleasing' but that last one is hard to make precise.

Re: Dracula Pro

#15

Post by adamhearn »

tbergeron wrote: post #8

Why would I pay for a theme that has been free for over 5 years now? Bundling your free and open source tools and selling them seem like the most crooked way of building a business. I just don't get the point at all. > Got laptop stolen, had to reconfigure everything. VSCode settings sync anyone? or pushing your .vimrc to a git repository? If you're a developer, you definitively know about a hundred different ways of…

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for payment for a product you make.

Things cost money. If it’s too expensive for your taste, make your own theme or choose one of the many other free open source themes.

I personal will not be buying this theme, but I see why he does sell something he created.

Re: Dracula Pro

#17

Post by mikl »

> I carefully selected 4 monospaced programming fonts that fit perfectly with Dracula PRO.

What does that mean? Is he just bundling some free fonts, or did he actually license some commercial fonts?

Rather fishy that it’s so vague on details.

Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by mikl »

screenbeard wrote: post #18

Do I need to buy this just to find out which fonts they're recommending?

Fira Code appears to be one of them, at least that is used on the website. A handcrafted recommendation of mine would be to try Iosevka (https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ ) or Input (https://input.fontbureau.com/ ). I really like the narrow-width fonts, lets you fit more code on screen.
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