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Dracula Pro

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Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by nitinreddy88 »

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…

How it's different from Sublime. Sublime by default free to use, however it has Dev channel where you need to pay to use it.

Everyone who has creativity, can sell their products on their own wish. Love it, buy it. Not interested, ignore it. But this sort of criticism is not expected!

Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by ternaryoperator »

nitinreddy88 wrote: post #21
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…

How it's different from Sublime. Sublime by default free to use, however it has Dev channel where you need to pay to use it. Everyone who has creativity, can sell their products on their own wish. Love it, buy it. Not interested, ignore it. But this sort of criticism is not expected!

>Everyone who has creativity, can sell their products on their own wish.

Agreed. But HN isn't really the place to promote your for-pay products.

Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by rckoepke »

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…

"Color theory" can describe pretty much anything working with color. I asked the developer of Dracula some technical questions last time this got traction on HN but didn't receive any responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306449

My guess is that instead of spacing things out equally by RGB , (e.g. [0,0,0]...[128,128,128]...[255,255,255]) they may be using another "colorspace" like HCL or Lab, where there are still three values that signify each color, but the vectors are complex instead of just "Red", "Green", and "Blue". See http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/

Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by screenbeard »

mikl wrote: post #20
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.

They're the ones I'm already using. I want to know what I'm missing out on! I've never seen Input though, so thanks for that.

Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by virtualritz »

geekrax wrote: post #19

Creator on the sales of this: "From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project A thread... https://t.co/8Sb9ZprsQT"

As someone who studied typography and who knows color by heart from both the scientific as well as the artistic side I can't believe people fall for the mumbo jumbo written on this page.

Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by zem »

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…

the colour spectrum is not one dimensional because it is determined both by the frequency of light and by the response of each of the different cones in our eyes to it. I have no opinion on the claims made by the article either way, I just wanted to point out that just because the frequency of light had a single dimension, it did not follow that there was a single colour axis.

Re: Dracula Pro

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Post by fbnlsr »

des429 wrote: post #16

"Hand-picked Typography" lol As opposed to, ya know, computer-picked typography? what is this?

No mention on what's picked also. That's a shame.

99% certain it's Fira Code, Ubuntu Mono, IBM Plex and Hasklig.

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