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I like this theme, and used it for a while but I find myself going back for monokai. A little off-topic: What do HN people prefer, light or dark themes?
by phn 14y ago
I like this theme, and used it for a while but I find myself going back for monokai.
A little off-topic: What do HN people prefer, light or dark themes?
- danielweber 14y agoI switch between light and dark themes. I am often working on more than 1 thing, and I think it helps me mentally separate them by having different background colors for different tasks.
- pstadler 14y agoI solely use dark themes for editors and terminals.
- LukeHoersten 14y agoLight unless I'm in a completely dark room and feel like my eyes are being radiated.
- phn 14y agoI always feel that way when I try a light theme, but I wonder if it is a matter of habit. For example, when I work with eclipse for a long time, I tend to forget that I'm using a light theme.
- prezjordan 14y agoDark, for sure. I actually really like Ryan's railscasts theme [1] and I'm now using it for everything. [1]: https://github.com/ryanb/textmate-themes https://github.com/ryanb/textmate-themes
- Rudism 14y agoDefinitely dark, I find my eyes feel more strained looking at themes with a light background. My go-to for many years now has been the Wombat scheme (originally for vim here https://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/ https://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wo... but you can find ports to other editors such as Visual Studio, Eclipse, XCode, etc if you hunt around a bit).
- Derbasti 14y agoLight, though only with off-white backgrounds.
- tikhonj 14y agoI use a dark theme for almost everything but I use a light, high-contrast theme when I'm working in direct sunlight or any other very bright conditions.
- njharman 14y agoWhite(or verly nearly so) background. With plenty of light, preferably near large windows. I can't understand why anyone would ever want to sit in the dark staring into a lightsource.
- sciurus 14y agoSpeaking of monokai, I recently switched to molokai and am enjoying it. vim = https://github.com/tomasr/molokai https://github.com/tomasr/molokai Xresources (e.g. xterm) = http://delicious.com/redirect?url=https%3A//gist.github.com/845878 http://delicious.com/redirect?url=https%3A//gist.github.com/... iTerm2 = https://github.com/larssmit/iterm2-getafe https://github.com/larssmit/iterm2-getafe
- arnarbi 14y agoDark for code, light for prose. Currently wombat and solarized-light, but I seem to like to change these every couple of months or so.