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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 BoxOfRain »

diarrhea wrote: post #114
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.

I agree, I'm a fan of the whole 'somebody slaughtered a herd of unicorns' approach to colouring code. It makes it very clear at a glance which keyword is doing what, which is always an advantage. I guess such things are very subjective though.

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

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Post by 8589934591 »

For emacs I use doom-one-light https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes/tree/screensho...

I wish there were light themes which are consistent across apps. The only ones I've usually found consistent are Atom One Light. I usually stick to light themes because it is more comfortable on the eyes, provided your environment is also well lit. I find this easier to do than staying with dark environments and stepping away from the PC to be blinded by light. This and lower brightness helps.

Adding to the above, light themes are usually the default provided by most apps (except discord in my experience) which makes it easier for me to get up and running with any app / system rather than trying to get a dark mode theme to work for the app (if they provide one). I honestly want to spend my time better than going down that rabbit hole of "the ideal dark system". On top of that there's the question of whether the theme is maintained consistently and whether it is supported or abandoned.

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

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Post by augustk »

brandonmenc wrote: post #145
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…

Do what I do: Black text on white background (or the reverse, if you’re a philistine.) Select a color for comments. Select a color for strings. Done. Anything more, and the display looks like someone threw a bag of Skittles at the screen.

I agree. One addition to this is that I configure my themes so that heading-like constructs are displayed in bold; in C that would be function names in function declarations (and definitions), and in HTML say, it would be the content of to elements. The motivation for this is the same as for highlighting headings in ordinary prose; it makes it easier to get an overview of where you are in the text.

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

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Post by suction »

inDigiNeous wrote: post #84
wintrli8 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Bro, nobody cares what color scheme you use, if you're confident about how you feel about it. I toggle between dark and light myself in vscode, depending on how I feel, really like the dark and light versions of the Github theme myself.

I had thought this to be true, but in certain startups with a certain culture, using a light theme will make you look like Dinosaurus who's not able to keep up with the latest tech trends. I know it's dumb, but it is reality in some places.

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

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Post by qwertox »

diarrhea wrote: post #114
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.

I like this too. Obviously I avoid high-contrast schemes, but something like one dark or monokai is easy on the eyes.

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

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Post by zenorocha »

diegoperini wrote: post #146

I clicked Dracula Pro, this appeared at the top of the page: > Hey! You're coming from Turkey 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 TRPRO for an extra 64% off the regular price. I love you <3

Glad you liked it! I come from a developing country (Brazil) and always had a hard time buying stuff from other countries.

Adding Purchasing Parity Power was a matter of principle to me.

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

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Post by suction »

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.

I agree that using sunglasses, the brightness of the chars on some dark themes becomes much less of strain.
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