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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 cbovis »

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.

I got this as well but the discount was 59% rather than 63%. Would be interesting to know how they're determining that discount value.

I was viewing from Colombia.

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

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ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #107
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

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

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Post by gizdan »

I wish there was a good theme out there that has support for lots of different apps, and has a light and dark theme. Dark themes are great when you're working in the dark, but during the day, when the sun is at its highest, and your brightness is maxed, Dark themes just don't work.

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

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Post by diarrhea »

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…

I actually prefer having as many different colors as possible. A class definition is orange, functions are pink, strings are green, ... (Material theme). It's just very clear at a glance. If everything's a subtle shade of one color, it's just harder to parse for no good (?) reason.

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Post by rvieira »

wintrli8 wrote: post #10

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

I get that with dark themes, but specifically ones with low contrast.

I really couldn't use Github's dark theme when it was first released because everything looked blurry. Their new "high contrast" dark theme is a great improvement.

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Post by Luc »

cbzbc wrote: post #106
Luc wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 necessa…

Very interesting, thank you for that.
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