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Interesting what others find appealing. This reminds me of some Halloween themed flash game's menu that I played on cartoonnetwork.com back in 2000s [1][2]. But

by frfl 3y ago

Interesting what others find appealing. This reminds me of some Halloween themed flash game's menu that I played on cartoonnetwork.com back in 2000s [1][2]. But everyone is free to choose what they like, I'm not one to judge someone else's color scheme. [1]: https://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120701045312/knd/images/2/20/Trick-or-treat-halloween-game-KND.jpg https://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120701045312/knd/im... [2]: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y1PF-2r9sv0/hqdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y1PF-2r9sv0/hqdefault.jpg

echelon 3y ago
Dracula is one of the most popular IDE and text editor color schemes [1]. I'm partial to Molokai/Monokai/something-kai, though I'm not sure why different people call it by different names [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(color_scheme) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(color_scheme) [2] https://github.com/sainnhe/sonokai https://github.com/sainnhe/sonokai
- dharmab 3y ago
  Monokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monokai.nl/blog/2006/07/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monoka... At some point, the original author decided Monokai was a good name for both the website and the colorscheme: https://monokai.pro/ https://monokai.pro/ A different author ported the theme to Vim, and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion with the original author: https://github.com/tomasr/molokai https://github.com/tomasr/molokai
  - thaumasiotes 3y ago
    > and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion That's likely to be pretty frustrating to people for whom N and L are the same sound.
    - mathieuh 3y ago
      What languages have n and l as allophones? Genuinely interested
      - thaumasiotes 3y ago
        Cantonese, and some other nearby languages. Likely others, but Cantonese is the big one. The loss of the distinction in Cantonese is fairly recent; Chinese terms borrowed from English via Cantonese all obey the distinction, using characters that indicate the correct consonant when read in other varieties of Chinese, and you can find old English-Cantonese dictionaries that talk about how certain Cantonese accents don't make the distinction (implying that "correct" Cantonese of the time still does, which is not the case today).
    - dharmab 3y ago
      Molokai is the name of a place.
      - thaumasiotes 3y ago
        Stamford is also the name of a place, but that doesn't mean you're not causing problems when you call your school "Stamford University". (I'm aware that the name is much older, but it's been displaced.) And in this case, Molokai isn't the name of a place, it's been chosen solely for its phonetic similarity to "Monokai". If I found a new Harverd University, I may be able to justify that, but I certainly can't do so on the stated grounds of "in order to avoid confusion".
- frfl 3y ago
  > Dracula is one of the most popular IDE and text editor color schemes For sure. I've definitely seen Dracula for many years on reddit/hn. Haven't seen anyone use it personally, but that's a small sample size. It's not a bad theme by any means, it's well designed based on the choice of colors and style they're going for. Not one I'd use, but I can why others may. Gotta respect their whole ecosystem thing they've got. They offer it for a lot of different things, editors/browsers/terminals/probably OS themes too. Don't see that with other themes.
  - pindab0ter 3y ago
    > I've definitely seen Dracula for many years on reddit/hn. I wonder if that's just because they have great branding and have a scheme available for almost everything imaginable. I, for one, really dislike the colour scheme itself, leaving me wondering why it's so popular. Now I'm just wondering if I'm growing old, or if it really is just different strokes for different folks.
- Tempest1981 3y ago
  Not to be confused with Darcula: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12692-darcula-darker-theme https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12692-darcula-darker-th...
  - rob74 3y ago
    Yup, I thought of that one too (actually of the original Darcula, which is built-in and I think the default theme if you use dark mode). Clever wordplay between "dark" and "Dracula", but some probably misread it. Anyway, that theme is actually completely different than Dracula and more to my taste...
tsumnia 3y ago
I look at it as a lightly goofy take on the "dark" color scheme idea. I'm a Monokai person myself but I always have a sensible chuckle when I see people built stuff with Dracula.
stets 3y ago
wow, throwback. Used to play those games a ton!
rubslopes 3y ago
> Interesting what others find appealing. I love the Dracula color scheme; its appeal to me lies in the combination of a dark theme with a touch of playfulness without being childish.

by frfl 3y ago

echelon 3y ago

Dracula is one of the most popular IDE and text editor color schemes [1]. I'm partial to Molokai/Monokai/something-kai, though I'm not sure why different people call it by different names [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(color_scheme) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(color_scheme) [2] https://github.com/sainnhe/sonokai https://github.com/sainnhe/sonokai

dharmab 3y ago
Monokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monokai.nl/blog/2006/07/ https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monoka... At some point, the original author decided Monokai was a good name for both the website and the colorscheme: https://monokai.pro/ https://monokai.pro/ A different author ported the theme to Vim, and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion with the original author: https://github.com/tomasr/molokai https://github.com/tomasr/molokai
- thaumasiotes 3y ago
  > and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion That's likely to be pretty frustrating to people for whom N and L are the same sound.
  - mathieuh 3y ago
    What languages have n and l as allophones? Genuinely interested
    - thaumasiotes 3y ago
      Cantonese, and some other nearby languages. Likely others, but Cantonese is the big one. The loss of the distinction in Cantonese is fairly recent; Chinese terms borrowed from English via Cantonese all obey the distinction, using characters that indicate the correct consonant when read in other varieties of Chinese, and you can find old English-Cantonese dictionaries that talk about how certain Cantonese accents don't make the distinction (implying that "correct" Cantonese of the time still does, which is not the case today).
  - dharmab 3y ago
    Molokai is the name of a place.
    - thaumasiotes 3y ago
      Stamford is also the name of a place, but that doesn't mean you're not causing problems when you call your school "Stamford University". (I'm aware that the name is much older, but it's been displaced.) And in this case, Molokai isn't the name of a place, it's been chosen solely for its phonetic similarity to "Monokai". If I found a new Harverd University, I may be able to justify that, but I certainly can't do so on the stated grounds of "in order to avoid confusion".
frfl 3y ago
> Dracula is one of the most popular IDE and text editor color schemes For sure. I've definitely seen Dracula for many years on reddit/hn. Haven't seen anyone use it personally, but that's a small sample size. It's not a bad theme by any means, it's well designed based on the choice of colors and style they're going for. Not one I'd use, but I can why others may. Gotta respect their whole ecosystem thing they've got. They offer it for a lot of different things, editors/browsers/terminals/probably OS themes too. Don't see that with other themes.
- pindab0ter 3y ago
  > I've definitely seen Dracula for many years on reddit/hn. I wonder if that's just because they have great branding and have a scheme available for almost everything imaginable. I, for one, really dislike the colour scheme itself, leaving me wondering why it's so popular. Now I'm just wondering if I'm growing old, or if it really is just different strokes for different folks.
Tempest1981 3y ago
Not to be confused with Darcula: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12692-darcula-darker-theme https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12692-darcula-darker-th...
- rob74 3y ago
  Yup, I thought of that one too (actually of the original Darcula, which is built-in and I think the default theme if you use dark mode). Clever wordplay between "dark" and "Dracula", but some probably misread it. Anyway, that theme is actually completely different than Dracula and more to my taste...

tsumnia 3y ago

I look at it as a lightly goofy take on the "dark" color scheme idea. I'm a Monokai person myself but I always have a sensible chuckle when I see people built stuff with Dracula.

stets 3y ago

wow, throwback. Used to play those games a ton!

rubslopes 3y ago

> Interesting what others find appealing. I love the Dracula color scheme; its appeal to me lies in the combination of a dark theme with a touch of playfulness without being childish.