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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 KarlKemp »

alberth wrote: post #136
jug wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! I'm not sure of your preferred editor but for Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA there is the Alabaster theme. You can read up more on its "manifesto" here. Variants to cover the rest besides the light theme on VS Code are at the bottom of the page. https://github.com/tonsky/vscode-theme-alabaster

+1 for alabaster. The older I get, thr harder dark themes are for my eyes to parse. This is a wonderful light theme with limited distractions.

Dark means wide-open pupils, means shallow depth-of-field, means more & constant focus adjustments are needed.

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Post by DavidVoid »

zenorocha wrote: post #169
inDigiNeous wrote: post #87

I have a hard time seeing why this is such a popular theme.. maybe it's just because it is available for so many different editors. On the other hand, would be cool to have an application / database that could convert any theme to another editor. Although that would take a lot of work to figure out the compatibilities, if somebody would do that well enough so that other people can configure input output configs for t…

Dracula creator here... I have a few thoughts on why this is such a popular theme: 1. Decentralized Contributors: every theme is maintained by a different person. There's no single point of failure when it comes to software maintainability. 2. Centralized Discoverability: most themes are scattered and disorganized. The cool thing about Dracula is that you can find everything in one place. 3. Transparency: on the webs…

> 7. Branding: why make something boring when you can make it fun?

This is pretty much how I first found Dracula. I was looking to make my VSCode editor more fun and someone linked https://computecuter.com which included Dracula in the example themes.

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Post by HDevo »

DigitalSea wrote: post #119

Great idea to have a cross-app theme, but Monokai Pro is hard to beat for me. I love that theme and I wish I could use it for other things too.

Just wanted to say +1 for Monokai Pro. It's very different from regular Monokai and I wish it was available for more apps.

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Post by petepete »

natded wrote: post #122
jug wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

JetBrains Mono Thin is the single best programming font I've used. Just a complete treat for my eyes to read over the hours.

I'm a huge fan too. I even make the font bigger in my terminal sometimes just to appreciate it up close.

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

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Post by petepete »

Nales wrote: post #108

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?

Not for me. Perhaps some other setting or plugin is affecting it?

My config is here, might be of help.

https://github.com/peteryates/dotfiles

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Post by TheSwordsman »

ampersandy wrote: post #81
TheSwordsman wrote: post #6

Cool idea of making it available across so many different applications, but I wish it was aesthetically pleasing. It just doesn't do it for me...

You may like Tomorrow, which has several sub-themes and is available for dozens of apps. I use Tomorrow Night Bright for everything. https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme

That definitely does feel a bit better to me. I'll need to check it out in a language I've been writing more recently. Thanks!

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Post by milkytron »

DavidVoid wrote: post #212
zenorocha wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dracula creator here... I have a few thoughts on why this is such a popular theme: 1. Decentralized Contributors: every theme is maintained by a different person. There's no single point of failure when it comes to software maintainability. 2. Centralized Discoverability: most themes are scattered and disorganized. The cool thing about Dracula is that you can find everything in one place. 3. Transparency: on the webs…

> 7. Branding: why make something boring when you can make it fun? This is pretty much how I first found Dracula. I was looking to make my VSCode editor more fun and someone linked https://computecuter.com which included Dracula in the example themes.

You left out that glorious pun from the quote!

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Post by stjohnswarts »

TheSwordsman wrote: post #6

Cool idea of making it available across so many different applications, but I wish it was aesthetically pleasing. It just doesn't do it for me...

And that's a good thing that you don't like it! Lots of us do and that's a good thing too! The world would be a rather boring place if one person got to tell the rest what is aesthetically pleasing.

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Post by stjohnswarts »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #101

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, w…

I don't think I've ever seen anyone hanging out by the server racks trying to push dark themes on me :) . I don't think I've seen anyone say "how could you possible go with -that- theme." Have you had experiences like that?

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #219
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #101

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, w…

I don't think I've ever seen anyone hanging out by the server racks trying to push dark themes on me :) . I don't think I've seen anyone say "how could you possible go with -that- theme." Have you had experiences like that?

Absolutely. It's quite common, for me (less so, the last couple of years, as my FtF interactions have drastically reduced).

People like to ensure that I'm aware I'm "behind the times." I'm even occasionally referred to as a "boomer." I don't think I'm up on the lingo the kids use, these days, but something tells me that it doesn't have anything to do with submarines.

I've basically stopped going to things like meetups, because of that behavior. I won't go where I'm not wanted. Same reason I stopped looking for work.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure that older eyes have a lot to do with my preference for lighter backgrounds.

I'll just leave it at that ...

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