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Tried it, seems to me a bit dull. Check https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/visual-studio-code https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/visual-studio-code for an example.

Tried it, seems to me a bit dull. Check https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/visual-studio-code https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/visual-studio-code for an example. BTW I really like https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme from the other thread.

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thoughtpalette 4y ago
Agreed. I find this visibly worse than many IDE presets.
powersurge360 4y ago
I agree. The biggest thing I dislike about Tokyo night, though, is the comments are not very well contrasted against the background. Aside from that I like everything else though.
- Fnoord 4y ago
  One thing you can do is make comments italic-bold and slightly darker than default code. I use Solarized Dark, so my comments are dark (but I have max brightness and then Solarized Dark is great), plus italic-bold comments. I also use a different font for italic-bold: Cartograph CF. Unfortunately this does not work in Sublime Text as I am unable to mark comments as italic-bold and define a different font for them. But in Vim and Neovim it works great.
  - powersurge360 4y ago
    Thanks for the suggestion. After reading this and messing with my config, looks like doom emacs has a variable associated with the theme that sets comments to have a brighter background to compensate. Thanks for the nudge.
tgv 4y ago
Maybe it's because of my color blindness, but I like Nord theme a bit better. It's less jarring. Also, I'm not particularly fond of different color for each and every lexical category (keyword, number, string, etc.). Coloring is practical for noticing unclosed strings and comments, or the start of a function, but in many cases, it doesn't offer me any advantage.
jorvi 4y ago
I’ve tried dozens of color palettes and most of them suffer from getting much less distinguishable when your screen is under the effect of an orange filter (Night Light et al). Best color scheme I’ve encountered so far is Oceanic Next. Holds up great under orange filter and is generally pleasant.
- RheingoldRiver 4y ago
  Material Oceanic is my favorite color theme ever but I hate the update that they gave it a couple years back, so I load the old version as a custom theme. The newer one is probably easier to see I guess but the older one really has the feel of coral reef rather than "generic IDE theme with bright colors #524"
RheingoldRiver 4y ago
Thanks for the links. I use a different theme for every language and I'm always looking for new themes that look unique enough & are legible enough for me to use on a language I'm only occasionally using. Both of these seem worth downloading, at least.
lancesells 4y ago
I think a lot of the popular color schemes seem way too afraid of better contrast. Science-backed or not my eyes find a lot of them hard to read. Even the text color of the site is "foggy".
JustSomeNobody 4y ago
Hmmm.. It's nice to look at on the page in that example, but there looks to not be enough color differentiation to aid in scanning through code.
lo_zamoyski 4y ago
It is indeed a bit dull and bland. It's on the cusp of being hazy (where looking at your editor feels like you're trying to read something through a haze). And if the whole blue light thing is true, I would expect this to produce eyestrain. I generally dislike dark themes anyway. Dark themes are less legible (I make more reading errors while reading code; there are studies that show that light text on dark backgrounds is less readable). The best themes IMO are: - light, but not white background (something yellow-tinted) - a restricted, bold color palate for text - no primary or RGB colors, only muted/darkened to take the edge off; the colors must stand out from the background without searing your eyeballs Imagine some baseline that dominates the bulk of your code. Now imagine that departures from the baseline can occur according to a few properties (boldness, emphasis, color from the restricted color palate). Any departure from the baseline that is intended to be perceived as part of the same logical unit or the same universe of things should only depart according to one property. Anything more will incur greater cognitive and visual strain because major differences signal a context change. Solarized light is a step in the right direction, but the background is too warm and the text shades are too light in relation to the background color and resemble a disorienting fruit salad or a bowl of tropical Skittles. A good start is the color scheme in the Acme editor in Plan9, with a few additional colors added for the text, e.g., appropriate shades of green, red, cyan, yellow.
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- csdvrx 4y ago
  > I generally dislike dark themes anyway. Dark themes are less legible (I make more reading errors while reading code; there are studies that show that light text on dark backgrounds is less readable). You and me both > The best themes IMO are: > - light, but not white background (something yellow-tinted) > - a restricted, bold color palate for text > - no primary or RGB colors, only muted/darkened to take the edge off; the colors must stand out from the background without searing your eyeballs That mostly define Solarized > Solarized light is a step in the right direction, but the background is too warm and the text shades are too light in relation to the background color and resemble a disorienting fruit salad or a bowl of tropical Skittles Totally agreed. I make my own derivatives, with a lighter yellow (bone, a bit like the HN background) and pure OLED black. For my code editing I prefer to use bold/italic/underline more than colors. It play very well with eink, especially color eink. > Now imagine that departures from the baseline can occur according to a few properties (boldness, emphasis YES! > A good start is the color scheme in the Acme editor in Plan9, YES! I think we have very similar tastes, and it's the first time I've seen them explained so well. You've inspired me to prepare a release of my VIM theme along a "basic" set of utilities for Android (themed bash with a SQLite history etc)
rochak 4y ago
Tokyo Night is a certified baller. I use https://github.com/ghifarit53/tokyonight-vim https://github.com/ghifarit53/tokyonight-vim with Vim and it works pretty well.

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thoughtpalette 4y ago

Agreed. I find this visibly worse than many IDE presets.

powersurge360 4y ago

I agree. The biggest thing I dislike about Tokyo night, though, is the comments are not very well contrasted against the background. Aside from that I like everything else though.

Fnoord 4y ago
One thing you can do is make comments italic-bold and slightly darker than default code. I use Solarized Dark, so my comments are dark (but I have max brightness and then Solarized Dark is great), plus italic-bold comments. I also use a different font for italic-bold: Cartograph CF. Unfortunately this does not work in Sublime Text as I am unable to mark comments as italic-bold and define a different font for them. But in Vim and Neovim it works great.
- powersurge360 4y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. After reading this and messing with my config, looks like doom emacs has a variable associated with the theme that sets comments to have a brighter background to compensate. Thanks for the nudge.

tgv 4y ago

Maybe it's because of my color blindness, but I like Nord theme a bit better. It's less jarring. Also, I'm not particularly fond of different color for each and every lexical category (keyword, number, string, etc.). Coloring is practical for noticing unclosed strings and comments, or the start of a function, but in many cases, it doesn't offer me any advantage.

jorvi 4y ago

I’ve tried dozens of color palettes and most of them suffer from getting much less distinguishable when your screen is under the effect of an orange filter (Night Light et al). Best color scheme I’ve encountered so far is Oceanic Next. Holds up great under orange filter and is generally pleasant.

RheingoldRiver 4y ago
Material Oceanic is my favorite color theme ever but I hate the update that they gave it a couple years back, so I load the old version as a custom theme. The newer one is probably easier to see I guess but the older one really has the feel of coral reef rather than "generic IDE theme with bright colors #524"

RheingoldRiver 4y ago

Thanks for the links. I use a different theme for every language and I'm always looking for new themes that look unique enough & are legible enough for me to use on a language I'm only occasionally using. Both of these seem worth downloading, at least.

lancesells 4y ago

I think a lot of the popular color schemes seem way too afraid of better contrast. Science-backed or not my eyes find a lot of them hard to read. Even the text color of the site is "foggy".

JustSomeNobody 4y ago

Hmmm.. It's nice to look at on the page in that example, but there looks to not be enough color differentiation to aid in scanning through code.

lo_zamoyski 4y ago

It is indeed a bit dull and bland. It's on the cusp of being hazy (where looking at your editor feels like you're trying to read something through a haze). And if the whole blue light thing is true, I would expect this to produce eyestrain. I generally dislike dark themes anyway. Dark themes are less legible (I make more reading errors while reading code; there are studies that show that light text on dark backgrounds is less readable). The best themes IMO are: - light, but not white background (something yellow-tinted) - a restricted, bold color palate for text - no primary or RGB colors, only muted/darkened to take the edge off; the colors must stand out from the background without searing your eyeballs Imagine some baseline that dominates the bulk of your code. Now imagine that departures from the baseline can occur according to a few properties (boldness, emphasis, color from the restricted color palate). Any departure from the baseline that is intended to be perceived as part of the same logical unit or the same universe of things should only depart according to one property. Anything more will incur greater cognitive and visual strain because major differences signal a context change. Solarized light is a step in the right direction, but the background is too warm and the text shades are too light in relation to the background color and resemble a disorienting fruit salad or a bowl of tropical Skittles. A good start is the color scheme in the Acme editor in Plan9, with a few additional colors added for the text, e.g., appropriate shades of green, red, cyan, yellow.

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csdvrx 4y ago
> I generally dislike dark themes anyway. Dark themes are less legible (I make more reading errors while reading code; there are studies that show that light text on dark backgrounds is less readable). You and me both > The best themes IMO are: > - light, but not white background (something yellow-tinted) > - a restricted, bold color palate for text > - no primary or RGB colors, only muted/darkened to take the edge off; the colors must stand out from the background without searing your eyeballs That mostly define Solarized > Solarized light is a step in the right direction, but the background is too warm and the text shades are too light in relation to the background color and resemble a disorienting fruit salad or a bowl of tropical Skittles Totally agreed. I make my own derivatives, with a lighter yellow (bone, a bit like the HN background) and pure OLED black. For my code editing I prefer to use bold/italic/underline more than colors. It play very well with eink, especially color eink. > Now imagine that departures from the baseline can occur according to a few properties (boldness, emphasis YES! > A good start is the color scheme in the Acme editor in Plan9, YES! I think we have very similar tastes, and it's the first time I've seen them explained so well. You've inspired me to prepare a release of my VIM theme along a "basic" set of utilities for Android (themed bash with a SQLite history etc)

rochak 4y ago

Tokyo Night is a certified baller. I use https://github.com/ghifarit53/tokyonight-vim https://github.com/ghifarit53/tokyonight-vim with Vim and it works pretty well.