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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 phab »

krono wrote: post #50
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?

You're right, it's Vim + a bunch of other editors, but when you scan the page that's not what you read - it scans as "Dark theme for vim", not "Dark theme for vim and a bunch of other editors"

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

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Post by matsemann »

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 have astigmatism and otherwise almost perfect eyesight. No issues with dark themes. If anything, I feel the letters washing a bit out is better than the background washing everything out.

I have a harder time reading the text I'm typing here on the white background when taking off my glasses, than in my dark IDE.

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

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Post by jug »

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…

Yes, Cascadia is a bit quirky but pretty nice. Currently I’m on JetBrains Mono which I find works great for me in terms of legibility. I love the slightly increased letter height and use it at 11 pt on a 27” display in Visual Studio. It reminds me a bit of IBM Plex Mono but I like it more. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

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

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Post by skocznymroczny »

wintrli8 wrote: post #10

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

I wouldn't say it hurts my eyes, but as soon as I open the IDE and a big black box shows up I feel depressed already. I usually just use what is default anyway. For example, Visual Studio looks weird to me in dark mode, but Visual Studio Code looks weird to me in light mode.

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

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Post by shrikant »

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.

This... makes SO much sense! I really started preferring dark themes for my various tools after I got LASIK'ed, and never made the connection :)

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

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Post by cbzbc »

Luc wrote: post #69
cbzbc wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It sounds like glasses (or lenses) would help you. Glasses can fix astigmatism! I can understand though that someone might not want to bother with glasses if the problem is easily fixed by using a light theme.

I have glasses but possibly due halation as mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29494640 still find light writing on dark backgrounds to be an issue.

Contacts aren’t an option because my astigmatism is strong enough that a rotation of 2 degrees throws them off.

But separately from eyesight issues I thought there was some evidence to suggest that aesthetic preferences aside, dark lettering on lighter backgrounds was still easier to read.

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

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Post by ljm »

yur3i__ wrote: post #19

If this is a theme thread then the Modus themes by Protesilaos are the best emacs themes for me by far. https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes

I hugely appreciate they're designed with accessibility in mind, and that they also try to cover edge-cases introduced by popular packages.

I've been using the dark one for a while and while it's not quite as aesthetically pleasing as themes like Dracula, Nord and Solarized, it more than makes up for it with legibility and clarity.

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