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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 totetsu »

cranium wrote: post #12
TheSwordsman wrote: post #6

Cool idea of making it available across so many different applications, but I wish it was aesthetically pleasing. It just doesn't do it for me...

Nord also has ports for some applications (Emacs, Guake and Tmux are those I care about). Unfortunately, not for all daily apps yet. https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

Maybe its out of fashion by now but solarized light/dark theme also has many ports. https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

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

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Post by wintrli8 »

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.

I think you may have some valid points here. I use specs, have been using for past 8-9 years. I remember using dark colour schemes as long as I can remember and don’t remember exactly when this issue started. Maybe, 1-2 years. I have two specs, different design but same power. I will experiment with the other one to see if that helps.

Currently I’m using the light version of light owl theme. Still experimenting to see it I can find better ones. I am fond of yellowish backgrounds though, like the one here at HN or the one present in ACME.

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

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Post by benatkin »

It seems like a grift to me. SEO the name of a popular theme (Darcula) and sell a Pro version.

Edit: my gripe is really with Google and Bing, which will show a lot of results for Dracula in the results for darcula theme when there are plenty of results for Darcula. This happens a lot with other terms as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Post by bcook »

benatkin wrote: post #34

It seems like a grift to me. SEO the name of a popular theme (Darcula) and sell a Pro version. Edit: my gripe is really with Google and Bing, which will show a lot of results for Dracula in the results for darcula theme when there are plenty of results for Darcula. This happens a lot with other terms as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Darcula" actually seems like a better name.

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

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Post by taeric »

pm90 wrote: post #7

I think I might be neurodivergent, having a similar look and feel across code editors and terminals always pleases me greatly for some reason. That’s definitely one reason I like Dracula; it’s so easy to get it across everything I use. Been using it for over a year; IMO it’s a pretty readable theme that’s easy on the eyes.

Oddly, I prefer a random scheme on each start of emacs. I have yet to not weird out folks on that.

Edit: I feel these are just two extremes with most folks not caring at all.

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

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Post by TacticalCoder »

lngnmn2 wrote: post #26

Nord is vastly superior.

Yup. I use Nord too, since years now. Both Dracula and Nord have something in common: they're using a very light dark background, which makes for dark themes very easy on the eyes. Dracula is RGB (40,41,55) while Nord is even lighter (45,51,65).

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

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Post by tlamponi »

I used solarized for a long time, but then I got PaperColor [0] recommended by a colleague recently, and after trying it for a bit I liked it so much that I switched to that exclusively.

It was originally made for vim, but there are ports to other tools[1].

[0]: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme

[1]: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme#-related-proje...

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