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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 wintrli8 »

zo1 wrote: post #28
pjerem wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It’s good to know that I am not alone. There’s this general aspect of not being cool when one is using light theme. How do we tell them that it’s not by choice? I really like the look of someone working in that dark theme and tried a lot to force myself into it only to fail miserably and come back to light theme.

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

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Post by ivanhoe »

cbzbc wrote: post #43

Are most people working with these themes in fairly low lit environments with a backlight? Because I assumed that current research indicated that in normal light darker text on a light background was actually less tiring for the eyes.

No, they're just in their 20 somethings, so looking cool outweighs "will an old dude be able to read it" argument. When younger I also loved nothing more than sitting in the dark room and staring at green letters on the black console screen. However now, being an old dude myself, not driving myself blind has become an actual concern...

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

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Post by unkulunkulu »

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...

I wonder if they have some machinery developed that can be reused to port other themes to all the apps?

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

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Post by fbnlsr »

PureParadigm wrote: post #21

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 sho…

It took me years to switch from Ubuntu Mono[1] to IBM Plex Mono[2] but now I feel like I'm never gonna change fonts again. I gave Cascadia a try but it feels way too bold. On paper it looks like a really cool project but after I've installed it it felt like all my code was shouting at me (I mean even more than usual), it was disturbing.

[1] https://design.ubuntu.com/font/ [2] https://www.ibm.com/plex/

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

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Post by function_seven »

ivanhoe wrote: post #44
cbzbc wrote: post #43

Are most people working with these themes in fairly low lit environments with a backlight? Because I assumed that current research indicated that in normal light darker text on a light background was actually less tiring for the eyes.

No, they're just in their 20 somethings, so looking cool outweighs "will an old dude be able to read it" argument. When younger I also loved nothing more than sitting in the dark room and staring at green letters on the black console screen. However now, being an old dude myself, not driving myself blind has become an actual concern...

I'm 42. I still hate staring at a lightbulb, and have dark mode on all the time. And my vision ain't what it used to be.

Pure white on a pure black background is horrible, but off-whites on a darker background looks nice and doesn't strain my eyes like a canvas of white does.

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Post by Luc »

ivanhoe wrote: post #44
cbzbc wrote: post #43

Are most people working with these themes in fairly low lit environments with a backlight? Because I assumed that current research indicated that in normal light darker text on a light background was actually less tiring for the eyes.

No, they're just in their 20 somethings, so looking cool outweighs "will an old dude be able to read it" argument. When younger I also loved nothing more than sitting in the dark room and staring at green letters on the black console screen. However now, being an old dude myself, not driving myself blind has become an actual concern...

It’s your eyes. Not the screen and not the young people. Get glasses.

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

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Post by phab »

I found the auto-retyping-animation product description on the site very misleading. As I scanned the page I read "Dark theme for Vim", and was immediately confused. Only when I returned to the top of the page did I notice that there was some silly animation which "retyped" Vim for a variety of other editors.

Why not just accurately say what it is?

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

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Post by krono »

phab wrote: post #49

I found the auto-retyping-animation product description on the site very misleading. As I scanned the page I read "Dark theme for Vim", and was immediately confused. Only when I returned to the top of the page did I notice that there was some silly animation which "retyped" Vim for a variety of other editors. Why not just accurately say what it is?

What is it, then, if not a dark theme for Vim as wel as a bunch of other editors?
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