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Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor?

• Triangle9349 4y ago
  Default or Monokai Night
• sp332 4y ago
  I used to customize everything, and usually went with Solarized Dark. But I started using VS Code a couple of years ago, and its dark mode (Dark+) has been really nice. I use it for perl, elixir, and bash.
• _virtu 4y ago
  Dracula Pro
• yoyohello13 4y ago
  I was a Gruvbox guy for quite a while. I found Everforest a few months ago and really like it: https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest
  • twh270 4y ago
    I'm currently a happy Gruvbox 'customer'. If I may ask, what make you switch to Everforest?
    • yoyohello13 4y ago
      I like green :)
  • bgrnwd 4y ago
    I made the same switch a couple years ago
• teddyh 4y ago
  Um… The default color scheme? Unless some color is not designed to be be readable on my background, in which case I customize it and turn off the colorization for that text category. I mean, I don’t really care about colors in my editor, but I don’t want to be like those people who get all huffy and turn off all colors just because. But I do need to be able to read the text, so I occasionally change it.
• Hackbraten 4y ago
  I’m using the Dark+ theme built into VS Code, because I maintain several extensions with syntax highlighting. My priority is that the extensions look good with the defaults, and dogfooding is one way to achieve that.
• anta40 4y ago
  gruvbox on MacVim, molokai on VimR I just uninstalled VSCode few days ago...
• passion__desire 4y ago
  One Dark Vivid in Pycharm
• thoughtpalette 4y ago
  Loved Monokai in Sublime Text, carried that over with Visual Studio Code.
  • Biganon 4y ago
    Same. I love Gruvbox too, but Monokai is included in Code so I went back to that
• LordHeini 4y ago
  The default intellij dark theme (darkula I think). Matches nicely with zenburn on the wm.
• ninjaranter 4y ago
  https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=narenranjit.chandrian https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=narenran... I wanted a color scheme where colors _meant_ something, rather than just be pretty - where you can just squint at your code and be able to visualize a heatmap of the key control flows. Among other things Chandrian uses Warm Colors for action keywords, Cold colors for Function names, variable values etc, and muted colors for punctuation / parenthesis etc. which just get in your way of reading code. Disclaimer: I made it
• dugword 4y ago
  jellybeans
• filoleg 4y ago
  Been using Monokai for the longest time. Currently alternating between that and Dracula variants.
• gavinray 4y ago
  Time for one maybe folks haven't heard of: Plastic. It was done by one of the folks originally involved with Atom One Dark: https://plastictheme.com/ https://plastictheme.com/
  • onnnon 4y ago
    I really liked Atom One Dark. After trying many color schemes for VSCode, I found Plastic to be my favorite. I never knew there was a connection!
    • gavinray 4y ago
      Me neither, until the author mentioned it to me in on GH! https://github.com/will-stone/plastic/issues/170 https://github.com/will-stone/plastic/issues/170
      • onnnon 4y ago
        Very cool!
• Amorymeltzer 4y ago
  kaolin-themes for emacs: https://github.com/ogdenwebb/emacs-kaolin-themes https://github.com/ogdenwebb/emacs-kaolin-themes There are plenty of options, some are very similar but I've been pretty happy with 'em
  • sleepycatgirl 4y ago
    Oooh, those look wonderful, I will install it and see if I like them more than doom themes :D
• Mikeb85 4y ago
  Monokai on JetBrains products (mostly RubyMine).
• deleted 4y ago
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• seanbarry 4y ago
  I absolutely love Synthwave '84 Blues (but with the text glow disabled) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sabrsorensen.synthwave-blues https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sabrsore...
• jasonpeacock 4y ago
  Solarized Dark for a long time, then Solarized Light b/c the rest of my windows/themes are all light. Now it's Dracula, b/c it's fun and widely supported. I still use light themes for everything else. (I used iTerm + tmux + neovim for coding)
• elfchief 4y ago
  I'm impressed at just how hard it is to see what catppuccin actually looks like in VSCode without installing it first. The catppuccin github has no screenshots, and the catppuccin-for-vscode github/site has exactly one screenshot, which is split into diagonal "bands" for the four different versions of the scheme, and only one of those bands has a significant amount of code.
  • apetrovic 4y ago
    You can preview it in VSCode. Open command pallete, type "Color Theme", click on top on "Browse additional color themes", and type "catppuccin" in the box. Arrows up/down to preview, Enter to install it.
  • nvrspyx 4y ago
    The catpuccin/vscode repo does have screenshots. They're collapsed under the "Previews" header, so you have to click each of the variants you want to view. Annoying, but they're there. https://github.com/catppuccin/vscode https://github.com/catppuccin/vscode
• jakevoytko 4y ago
  I'm colorblind (protanopia), which makes most color schemes unusable in some way. I use the default Visual Studio Code darkmode color theme. It's perfect for my type of colorblindness! The colors have great contrast for me, and I can easily read everything.
  • AlanYx 4y ago
    It would definitely be nice to see more color schemes targeted at users with color vision issues. Prot recently developed two emacs themes targeted at users with deuteranopia and tritanopia: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes
• Ancapistani 4y ago
  Jellybeans on Neovim here.
• lofatdairy 4y ago
  Big fan of gruvbox dark in vim. I don't normally use dark mode in other contexts but gruvbox is warm without any loud colors. I used to use an absolutely terrible colorscheme named sakura light or something, anyone I showed my editor to would be blinded lol.
  • spiffytech 4y ago
    I'm on gruvbox medium. Everything feels clear and readable.
  • PainfullyNormal 4y ago
    I also use gruvbox dark with hard contrast. I completely forgot I was using it and had to look at my vimrc. That's how good it is: I set it a number of years ago and haven't had to touch it since.
• NegativeLatency 4y ago
  Daytime: this bbedit colorscheme in vim https://github.com/nburns/bbedit-vim-colors/blob/master/colors/bbedit.vim https://github.com/nburns/bbedit-vim-colors/blob/master/colo... Nighttime: solarized dark Switched to a light background during the daytime and a dark background during the nighttime with this plugin I made for vim: https://github.com/nburns/vim-auto-light-dark https://github.com/nburns/vim-auto-light-dark
• iwebdevfromhome 4y ago
  Been using Monokai Pro https://monokai.pro/ https://monokai.pro/ for Jetbrains editors and Visual Studio Code for a while now. I still haven't gotten that itch to switch themes.
• dgrabla 4y ago
  Nightfox https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim
• mbeattie 4y ago
  Tomorrow Night Bright
• psalminen 4y ago
  Nord in kitty/neovim (https://www.nordtheme.com/ https://www.nordtheme.com/) Penumbra Dark in VS Code (https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra)
• hprotagonist 4y ago
  prot’s ef-deuteranopia-dark, usually. https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes otherwise, some solarized variant.
  • sph 4y ago
    I too use Prot's themes, but a different one per season: (defun light-theme-for-this-season () "Return the light theme for this season." (pcase (current-meteorological-season) ('spring 'ef-spring) ('summer 'ef-summer) ('autumn 'ef-day) ('winter 'ef-light))) Each season starts on the first of the month: March, June, September, December. I also have a little script that switches to the dark theme with the rest of the system, and it loads modus-vivendi, another one of Prot's collection, now bundled with Emacs. His themes are cool because he makes sure every colour has a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5, and because he doesn't agree with the stupid trend of making comments so light against the background, they're unreadable. Comments need to stand out!
    • hprotagonist 4y ago
      add in some circadian.el and then you’re really cookin’ :)
      • sph 4y ago
        I have GNOME do the auto dark theme thing automatically, so all Emacs has to do is listen to dbus signals and act accordingly: (defun theme-switcher (value) (pcase value ;; No Preference. Used by GNOME to indicate light theme. (0 (sph/load-light-theme)) ;; Prefers dark (1 (sph/load-dark-theme)) ;; Prefers light (2 (sph/load-light-theme)) (_ (message "Invalid key value")))) (defun handler (value) (theme-switcher (car (car value)))) (defun signal-handler (namespace key value) (if (and (string-equal namespace "org.freedesktop.appearance") (string-equal key "color-scheme")) (theme-switcher (car value)))) (dbus-call-method-asynchronously :session "org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop" "/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop" "org.freedesktop.portal.Settings" "Read" #'handler "org.freedesktop.appearance" "color-scheme") (dbus-register-signal :session "org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop" "/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop" "org.freedesktop.portal.Settings" "SettingChanged" #'signal-handler)
• nateroling 4y ago
  I have a custom theme that's pretty minimal, because I find lots of colors distracting. Colors are vaguely based it on pen on paper: white: background dark blue: foreground light gray: brackets and commas and stuff red: literals (strings, numbers, true/false) black: comments This means comments and literals stand out, which are usually the things I don't want to miss when I'm reading through code.
  • eqvinox 4y ago
    similar theme here, vim :TOhtml output: https://aurora.nox.tf/tmp/zebra_rib.c.html https://aurora.nox.tf/tmp/zebra_rib.c.html (Tab display and col-80-mark is missing in that tho) (but yes I make my comments gray)
• agigao 4y ago
  Spacemacs Light and IntelliJ light default Dark themes make my brain hurt.
• Apreche 4y ago
  I just keep on switching it up whenever I need to feel fresh.
• thefz 4y ago
  Darcula everywhere.
• mgmeyers 4y ago
  Noctis: https://github.com/liviuschera/noctis https://github.com/liviuschera/noctis Specifically, I try to match the theme variant to my lighting conditions. I had some major eye strain for a while, and doing this with this theme seemed helped.
• taterbase 4y ago
  1989 - https://github.com/sonjapeterson/1989.vim https://github.com/sonjapeterson/1989.vim
• pawelduda 4y ago
  tokyonight in Vim and shell https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim
• jpe90 4y ago
  default
• techwizrd 4y ago
  I use Dracula mostly because it's widely available for most tools, terminals, and editors.
• rogual 4y ago
  On Emacs, I use the built-in Leuven [0] during the day, and jbeans [1] at night, both modified a bit. [0] https://i.imgur.com/eWIo1Fi.png https://i.imgur.com/eWIo1Fi.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/q0JreaG.png https://i.imgur.com/q0JreaG.png
• sphars 4y ago
  Popping and Locking Theme: https://github.com/hedinne/popping-and-locking-vscode https://github.com/hedinne/popping-and-locking-vscode
• boxed 4y ago
  Turbo C++ 3.0
• BlameKaneda 4y ago
  Firewatch. When I think I've found another theme that I like, I always end up going back to it. https://vscodethemes.com/e/ulthes.theme-firewatch/firewatch-theme?language=python https://vscodethemes.com/e/ulthes.theme-firewatch/firewatch-...
• amflare 4y ago
  Sunburst on Sublime and a modified version of Obsidian on PhpStorm.
• champagnepapi 4y ago
  I use the one dark theme https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/11938-one-dark-theme https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/11938-one-dark-theme
• dongecko 4y ago
  I use monokai and dracula, depending on the environment. If i can alter something, I usually go for dracula and FiraScript as font.
• quirino 4y ago
  I'm not a fan of the pastel/low contrast style most of the themes have these days. My theme of choice is Ayu (dark) (https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-ayu https://github.com/Shatur/neovim-ayu). Absolutely gorgeous.
• skrtskrt 4y ago
  Gruvbox dark, though I’m always happy with monokai as well.
• Linux-Fan 4y ago
  For my needs, contrast must be strong. Hence I mostly stick to the defaults on a 16-color urxvt. vim: `ron` which I think is the default. vifm: custom-made colorscheme (https://github.com/m7a/lp-conf-cli/blob/master/vifmrc https://github.com/m7a/lp-conf-cli/blob/master/vifmrc if you're interested, screenshot: https://masysma.net/32/conf-cli_att/scrvifmtheme.png https://masysma.net/32/conf-cli_att/scrvifmtheme.png) Occasionally, I turn off syntax highlighting altogether (most often this happens in Markdown or HTML documents where the default syntax highlighting does stupid things like trying to set the font to italic...)
• iliaznk 4y ago
  Gruvbox dark hard.
• hakunin 4y ago
  On Sublime Text Chelevra[1] has been my favorite for a long time. Lately I've also been using a couple of Alabaster[2] variations. To me the most important thing is to have just enough color. I find too much color distracting. [1] https://github.com/jhermsmeier/chelevra.tmtheme https://github.com/jhermsmeier/chelevra.tmtheme [2] https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster
• vvms 4y ago
  Everforest (both dark and light ones): https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest
• johnofthesea 4y ago
  One named Yesterday from this set: https://github.com/yl92/paddy-color-theme https://github.com/yl92/paddy-color-theme I've just remade it for Sublime Text.
• rektide 4y ago
  Random. As a vim+tmux user I have a bunch of different tmux sessions + tabs open. Having different colors for different sessions help me stay oriented.
• madmax108 4y ago
  "ir_black" is the colorscheme I've come back to most often. Came across it a decade or so ago, and there's something about this scheme that's appealed a lot to me (I think it's something to do with the color palette being in-sync with my mental model of programming constructs?) and it's been my primary colorscheme since. Available on vim [1], iterm [2] and VSCode as well [3] --- [1] https://vimcolorschemes.com/twerth/ir_black https://vimcolorschemes.com/twerth/ir_black [2] https://github.com/pnasrat/iTerm-2-Color-Themes/blob/master/ir_black.itermcolors https://github.com/pnasrat/iTerm-2-Color-Themes/blob/master/... [3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gerane.Theme-IRBlack https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gerane.T...
• glmeece 4y ago
  There may be other IDEs/Editors that this is available for, but I really enjoy the freeCodeCamp Dark Theme: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=freeCodeCamp.freecodecamp-dark-vscode-theme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=freeCode...
• astkaasa 4y ago
  gruvbox for terminal and editor
• Ghoyome 4y ago
  Built it myself: https://github.com/ysftaha/altair.vim https://github.com/ysftaha/altair.vim
• aberrati0n 4y ago
  I've been using Zenburn everywhere I can for the past few years (Sublime Text, Windows Terminal, VS Code).
• beej71 4y ago
  I use codedark in vim (a clone of VS Code's dark theme) except modded so the background is black instead of dark gray.
• mrblampo 4y ago
  "blue" in Vim. Great contrast, sufficiently aesthetically pleasing, strikes a nice balance that seems to work in high or low light.