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Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps

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Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps

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Post by PureParadigm »

I use Dracula color scheme along with the Cascadia Code font [1]. I've been using this set up in both VSCode for Rust and Java in IntelliJ. I find this combination to be extremely readable. Dracula uses many very different colors which make different parts of code obvious. Cascadia has unique shapes for many of the characters which makes distinguishing them a breeze. Would definitely recommend giving this combo a shot!

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps

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Post by pletnes »

pjerem wrote: post #20
wintrli8 wrote: post #10

I envy those who can use dark colour schemes. It hurts my eyes for some reason.

Some reason = probably strong myopia or astigmatism. I have those issues and with dark themes (or just in the night when I’m tired) my eye’s lens tend to open so widely that my vision becomes blurred because the focus point of my eyes is now behind my glasses. If you support contact lenses, it’s an issue they can effectively fix because the focus point can never be behind your correction lens.

Interesting point. I experience the same, and realized that my glasses are getting old - probably need new ones. Maybe parent doesn’t even have glasses?

For this reason I prefer not-pitch-black dark themes. E.g monokai is a bit brighter background and is thus more comfy.

Re: Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps

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Post by zo1 »

pjerem wrote: post #20
wintrli8 wrote: post #10

I envy those who can use dark colour schemes. It hurts my eyes for some reason.

Some reason = probably strong myopia or astigmatism. I have those issues and with dark themes (or just in the night when I’m tired) my eye’s lens tend to open so widely that my vision becomes blurred because the focus point of my eyes is now behind my glasses. If you support contact lenses, it’s an issue they can effectively fix because the focus point can never be behind your correction lens.

Can confirm the potential astigmatism reason, which I have, and also struggle with dark themes. For some odd reason, maybe there is an expert here, crisp light shapes on a dark background make it either super obvious to a person that the shapes are malformed or it forces their eyes to strain more to compensate.
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