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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 cbzbc »

function_seven wrote: post #47
ivanhoe wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, I don’t use pure white, but the lighter solarized themese seem to work reasonably well.

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

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Post by cbzbc »

Luc wrote: post #48
ivanhoe wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For some of the reasons mentioned by other people in this thread, I don’t think glasses actually fix the problem. I have astigmatism and generally light text on a dark background is difficult to focus on.

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

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Post by epse »

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?

Maybe a smaller line under it akin to "and 227 others" would make that clearer

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

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Post by aniforprez »

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...

Why does this comment thread need a "get off my lawn" type response? Some people like dark themes cause white strains the eyes. I like off-white themes but none of those I've used are all that great for coding so I stick to dark themes

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

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Post by epse »

bcook wrote: post #36
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.

Isn't that the JetBrains default dark scheme?

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

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Post by mattowen_uk »

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.

Another astigmatism person here. I cannot get on with dark colour schemes at all. Every so often I give it a go, in my IDE or desktop theme, and then quickly switch it back. It's not that it's too dark per se, but it feels like the text is just 'floating about' with no real anchor to the page, which is a bit of an issue when you are trying to code or write documentation.

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

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Post by function_seven »

cbzbc wrote: post #51
function_seven wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, I don’t use pure white, but the lighter solarized themese seem to work reasonably well.

Sorry, didn't mean to strawman your setup :)

Yeah, when I do use light themes, I mute them similarly. And I have the brightness on my screens turned down a bit, and the blue channel trimmed down a smidge.

All the lights in my house are at 2200K, so I definitely have a preference towards warmer light.

My theory is that it's like cilantro (some people think it tastes like soap) or like pineapple on pizza (which is objectively wrong, about this there can be no debate). I just can't stand bright light.

I'm sure a sizeable chunk of dark theme users do just like to pretend they're administering The Matrix or something. But not all of us :)

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

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Post by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF »

tlamponi wrote: post #39

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...

This one looks really great!
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