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> So I’m stuck writing code all day long with light schemes.
Don't feel stuck! I see so many people preferring the dark background for terminals and editors, and I just scratch my head.
Maybe it's highly personal, but light themes really reduce the fatigue on my eyes, and I find them much preferable.
If you like solarized light, you might want to try gruvbox light [0], which I find even easier on the eyes.
[0] https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
I use Base16 to apply Dracula across my terminal applications.
https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
I used to use solarized, but switched to selenized some time ago.
https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w...
Never looked back. Next best theme would have to be nordtheme.com
catpuccin [1] is similar, had been useong solarized for almost a decade, but tried catpuccin about 6 months ago and it was so good I’ve switched over permanently. Like solarized there are light and dark variants and there are versions for vim and vs code and many other editors as well.
[1] https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin
Same.
Haven’t used it lately; need to check if it’s been updated for truecolor terminal emulators like Kitty or WezTerm.
Big fan of Tokyo Night for Neovim these days: https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim
Mind that the BBEdit information and format is out of date. Updated files can be found at the original project repository [1]. Moreover, due to containerization the "Color Schemes" directory has meanwhile moved and is now at
`~/Library/Containers/com.barebones.bbedit/Data/Library/Application\ Support/BBEdit/Color\ Schemes`.
(This can be simply navigated to from BBEdit via the "BBEdit" menu > "Folders" > "Color Shemes". This will open the folder in the Finder, just copy the files `*.bbColorScheme` files there.)
[1] https://github.com/rcarmo/textwrangler-bbedit-solarized
Up until I read your comment, I never really made any association between my astigmatism and my discomfort with dark themes. Now it all makes sense. Also, since too much white was never a problem for me, my theme of choice in Emacs is Nano Light¹ and Solarized anywhere else.
¹ https://github.com/rougier/nano-theme
This reminds me of my fun experiments with color distances and genetic algorithms to automatically generate solarized-like color schemes: https://github.com/fdietze/chromogene
Solarized was my first contact with making my terminal look nice and matching it with my editors etc.
Nowadays I use nord everywhere but when I first followed the oh-my-zsh + iterm2 tutorials for OSX, I definitely used Solarized for a good 6 months.
Nord: https://www.nordtheme.com/
I use a Firefox browser extension called "Dark Reader" [1] to force a dark mode on most of the websites I frequent and I'm more or less happy with it. If there was an extension that Solarized them instead, I'd probably go with that instead.
https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader
Has anyone done a cross-app configuration tool for color themes yet ? It seems most themes just reimplement everything. For example, I like tokyonight, but it seems everyone needs to port it to their favorite tool, just like solarized did:
https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme#other-port...
Even the open source and professional theme Dracula seem to rely on manual porting:
https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme
Has anyone done a cross-app configuration tool for color themes yet ? It seems most themes just reimplement everything. For example, I like tokyonight, but it seems everyone needs to port it to their favorite tool, just like solarized did:
https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme#other-port...
Even the open source and professional theme Dracula seem to rely on manual porting:
https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme
Anyone here using Penumbra?
https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra
> »Penumbra is a mathematically balanced colour scheme constructed in a perceptually uniform colour space with base colours inspired by the shades of colour occurring in nature due to the light of the sun and the sky. It cleanly separates the perceptual properties of colours while optimally utilizing the available colour space of typical displays.«
It was mentioned here ~3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348461
All on GitHub, unfortunately in Polish, but I suppose you could create an issue to have this translated:
The keyword you're looking for is "sernik".
https://github.com/jan-warchol/przepisy-programisty
I loved solarized when it was new (to me). But after several years, I couldn't stand looking at those blue tones all day.
I switched (in vim) to gruvbox [0] (better maintained "community" edition [1]), which also has a dark and a light version, which is a lot warmer.
0: https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
Font legibility and point size are quite crucial for me. I can work with light on dark if using a non blurry pixmap font, terminus being my favorite.
I tend to use monochrome on dark backgrounds, I prefer white on blue to the usual light grey on black.
During the day, I like the rather colorful light Emacs leuven theme: https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven-theme.
For some reason, I find the default acme editor very nice to use, from a legibility and information density POV.
I use Alabaster[1]. Contrary to most themes, it is quite minimalistic and it emphasises comments instead of de-emphasising them. I like the minimalism, because it lets me focus, instead of marking every single thing on the screen as a different colour of “important” making my head spin.
[1]: <https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster>
I think what the creator is doing is outsourcing the maintenance of each individual app to a maintainer that cares; the themes folder contains pointers to other repos:
https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme/tree/master/themes
I think that is a good idea.
This could be used to "reverse-engineer a generic platform" relatively easily:
1: Fork Dracula and its themes