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Post by mimsee »

m8s wrote: post #18

I use Dracula for pretty much everything. Code editors, terminals, browsers, Slack, and even CSS skins for Tailwind, Wordpress, and more, if I'm installing an application, there's a pretty good chance there's already a theme for it. But there's an interesting side effect of having a theme repository with over 200 applications: app discovery! Whether it's learning about interesting projects (BetterDiscord, MatterMost,…

Man Brackets brings me back. When I was 16-17 I forked a popular HTML skeleton extension but with the difference that I wanted it to have Bootstrap markup ready. This was with zero javascript experience (the extensions themselves used JS). It wasn't until later that I realised it had many thousands of downloads. As of right now 120k.

Sadly I've deleted the Github repo, but amazingly Brackets still had a copy of the plugin in their S3 bucket.

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

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Post by natded »

jug wrote: post #73
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/

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

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

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Post by AndyJames »

cranium wrote: post #12
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...

Nord also has ports for some applications (Emacs, Guake and Tmux are those I care about). Unfortunately, not for all daily apps yet. https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

For me it's the Rails Cast Theme especially version for Sublime Text that is ideal. I wish it would be much widely available

https://github.com/jayzelenkov/sublime-railscasts-extended

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

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Post by moffkalast »

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...

They want you to buy the PRO version which leverages the availability but makes it actually look decent. It's meant only as a demo so you can check compatibility I guess.

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

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Post by qwerty456127 »

Is there a theme like this (i.e. supporting so many or just slightly less apps) but light? For those who work near open windows during sunny days (so dark themes become unreadable) or just prefer uniformity and are this way limited to light themes because some apps they need don't support dark?

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

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Post by maccard »

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…

> maybe it's just because it is available for so many different editors

There's definitely an appeal for me in this. I flip between VSCode, Rider and Visual Studio on both Windows and Mac these days, and having the theme/layout consistent across all the applications definitely helps ease the transitions (along with trying to keep bindings for various operations the same across the board).

> if somebody would do that well enough so that other people can configure input output configs for that, I bet that program could become very popular among developers.

Honest question, how much would you pay for it? Would you pay $60? Bearing in mind that in theory this would let you use any theme of your choice on your editor of choice.

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

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Post by jug »

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…

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

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

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Post by gurraman »

Dracula is a very well-crafted theme, but I can't help feeling like it makes my editor feel like a toy. I've gone a lot of different themes, but the only (dark) one that has worked out for me is everforest [1], with the following modifications:

    vim.cmd [[hi Normal guibg=#111111]]
    vim.cmd [[hi EndOfBuffer guibg=#111111]]
    vim.cmd [[hi StatusLine guifg=#ccdc90]]
    vim.cmd [[hi link TSLiteral TSString]]
    vim.cmd [[hi TSField guifg=#c4b89b]]
    vim.cmd [[hi TSTag gui=italic]]
    vim.cmd [[hi TSTagDelimiter guifg=#859289]]
    vim.cmd [[hi TSInclude guifg=#d699b6]]
    vim.cmd [[hi link TSInclude Purple]]
    vim.cmd [[hi link mkdWikiLink TSURI]]
    vim.cmd [[hi link mkdWikiLinkStart Blue]]
    vim.cmd [[hi link mkdWikiLinkEnd Blue]]
Notable themes I've kinda liked (but had some problems with for various reasons): moonfly and zenburn

[1] https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest

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

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Post by Hard_Space »

Veen wrote: post #96
Hard_Space wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In their defense, browsing from Bucharest, the Pro page shows me this: > Hey! You're coming from Romania 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 ROPRO for an extra 52% off the regular price.

Now that you've posted it here, I predict the Dracula folks will see an enormous increase in the use of the ROPRO code by "Romanian" developers living all around the world.

Well, I'm guessing they'll need to keep a Romania IP active in a VPN when they're paying, and I got my card locked a couple of times doing that kind of thing.
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