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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

It’s a nice theme. I can’t really see myself buying a theme for Xcode, though. I can easily afford it, but I don’t really need it. If I did need it, then I’d definitely get it. It may seem like a “trivial” thing, but I spend a significant part of my life, staring at code in a text editor. It’s worth taking seriously.

I run dark on my Mac, but use Xcode with a modified default light theme (off-white page background, with high-contrast monospace sans-serif text). Same with BBEdit (my general-purpose text editor). I use a translucent dark for Terminal, though. I don’t spend much time in CLI.

For whatever reason, it allows me my greatest productivity. I don’t really care why. I’m constantly coding, so it’s important for me to be comfortable. I’ve tried dark page backgrounds, a few times, and never became comfortable with them.

I’m not particularly interested in impressing anyone, or being perceived as “cool.” That ship has sailed. I am definitely “uncool.”

But I get a lot of stuff done, fairly well, and quite quickly.

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

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Post by moth-fuzz »

Dracula is a fine theme, however, I feel like it's more convenient than it is pretty. I admire Dracula, Nord, and Gruvbox and how committed they are to their own aesthetics - my personal favorite, similar to Gruvbox, is Alduin[0] but sadly it's for Vim only.

I only wish popular themes didn't feel like they had to use every primary color for the text. I wish we took the popular themes and made them even more opinionated, fewer colors with greater emphasis. At the end of the day most themes nowadays are just different shades of all rainbow text over your choice of a light or dark background. Dark or light... It reminds me of that theory about how early humans, before having words for different colors, only had light and dark to describe things.

Does anyone have any recommendations for opinionated color schemes with limited palettes with emphasis on particular colors instead of just dark/light?

0. https://github.com/AlessandroYorba/Alduin

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

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Post by npteljes »

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.

Dark themes don't work for me either. What did work though is reducing blue light, and lowering monitor brightness. My eyes were much happier after I discovered this.

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

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Post by cbzbc »

Luc wrote: post #85
cbzbc wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 b…

Have you found that a combination of the right theme and glasses makes reading from the screen for hours comfortable? I have read about that research but I don't think we can conclude from it that dark backgrounds are a fad. They have other advantages (e.g. matching the dark room I work in) and besides, most dark themes are not pure white on black, but something less contrasting.

I've always forced myself to take a break from the screen, and for very long (book length) stuff will always either use a hard copy or ebook so perhaps my usage patterns won't match yours. I use variants of solarized style light themes, though do experiment occasionally as I've never found the definite 'answer' to the best theme for me.

I don't think the research would conclude that dark backgrounds are a fad necessarily. The reason I'm attracted to themes with darker backgrounds is that they are generally better for getting a set of text colours with roughly equal levels of legibility - whereas lighter backgrounded themes often have two or three colours which are really hard to see. The flip side is that darker colours + astigmatism seem to lead to reduced breadth of vision.

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

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Post by ReleaseCandidat »

moth-fuzz wrote: post #103

Dracula is a fine theme, however, I feel like it's more convenient than it is pretty. I admire Dracula, Nord, and Gruvbox and how committed they are to their own aesthetics - my personal favorite, similar to Gruvbox, is Alduin[0] but sadly it's for Vim only. I only wish popular themes didn't feel like they had to use every primary color for the text. I wish we took the popular themes and made them even more opinionat…

The ones I use are Emacs-Zenburn (other colors than 'usual' Zenburn)

https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs

and Groovy Lambda for Code, similar to Gruvbox (because it supports more syntax elements)

https://github.com/sheaf/groovy-lambda

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

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Post by Nales »

I use (Neo)Vim on a terminal with the option "colorscheme" set on "default". When I tried Dracula and set up my terminal color scheme with it, it made diffs on Vim unreadable (sometimes background color was the same as the foreground color). I have never seen anywhere any mention of this issue.

Did someone also have this problem here?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

BlueGh0st wrote: post #89
olalonde wrote: post #52

I'm impressed that Dracula Pro generated over $189,389.50. It's cool that they managed to make money from their color scheme.

Even more impressive is this note that I got while browsing from a developing country. >Hey! You're coming from [Country] where this could be too expensive. >I believe in Purchasing Parity Power, and I want to make this affordable. >If you need it, use the code [code] for an extra 63% off the regular price.

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

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Post by yakubin »

jspash wrote: post #79
wintrli8 wrote: post #10

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

I don't like them because all I can see is a reflection of my big ugly face staring back at me. Who needs to see THAT for eight hours a day?

If you have an anti-glare screen, that's not an issue.
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