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score 139 · Answer 1

One Dark

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Colors are calm and easy to distinguish

Its wide hue range with good saturation/value use make a good enough contrast to skim the code fastly and not too vibrant to kill your eyes. See More

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Ports to other applications are not always accurate.

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Available for vim

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Kind of fadey

The colors aren't that bright (which may be good for some people). See More

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Available on a wide range of applications

KDE Plasma, VsCode etc... See More

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Available for Intellij IDEA

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Available for Atom clones and Sublime

Possibly for others too This theme is a default one for Atom text editor. See More

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Default theme for Doom Emacs

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Calm blue background

If used with flux, it turns into warm gray during night. See More

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Available as a base16 theme

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Includes GUI themes

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score 275 · Answer 2

Dracula

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Available for many popular editors, terminals, etc.

Sublime, Atom, Vim, iTerm, Terminal.app, Zsh, Slack, TextMate, Emacs, Visual Studio Code/Visual Studio, Xcode, IntelliJ, and more. See More

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Consistency

Some colors are too vibrant and bright. See More

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Great in lots of languages

Even for Markdown. See More

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Hard on eyes

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Perfect color pitch

Colors are perfectly pitched, easy to focus on scripts and shells. See More

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Well designed

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Very good for the eyes

It looks very good, with a little of blue light. It also works very well with MacOS's Night Shift. I would recommend this theme for starters. See More

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score 681 · Answer 3

Gruvbox

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Multiple contrast options

Three different variants are available, each with different contrasts. See More

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That white is very painful to look at using an F.lux like applications

While it looks quite good for some time, using Night Shift/F.lux applications just makes reading things with Gruvbox quite painful. See More

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Very easy on the eyes

Both the light and dark version have a reddish background for a consistent look when toggling between them. See More

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Have light and dark version

Dark background has brown-yellowish retro colors, light background is yellowish with pastel highlights. See More

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Made ready for multiple text-editors

Ports for Atom, Sublime, TextMate and Emacs and other text editors are available. For a full list of available ports. If you are using a Jetbrains IDE. See More

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You can go all day with Gruvbox

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It can be customized in detail

Size of the tabs, icons of file types, contrast of the color schemes, accented colors, indentation in the sidebar, sizes of the status bar and dozens more. See More

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score 318 · Answer 4

Molokai

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Looks great

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That pink

The pink color is too vibrant if compared with others. It pops out from context and may blend with red errors in some editors. See More

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One of the most common dark themes

Default for Sublime Text, avaialble on IntelliJ products and Eclipse via plug-in. Usually ranked in top 3 of highest downloaded theme for a IDE. See More

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Too much contrast

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Strong enough contrast

Without being fully black on white (which is good on modern already very contrasted screens) it remains pretty dark compared to many alternatives; making it more readable. See More

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Easy to install with Vundle

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score 486 · Answer 5

Tomorrow Theme

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Eases visual processing

Different colors within the same color scheme to quickly distinguish the layout (px, %, ..) and other declaration blocks from the colors (background-color; color); that eases the visual processing, thus increases reading speed, while reading CSS. See More

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Bad theme

First of all, in the Tomorrow Theme official repository, the IntelliJ Idea theme is just a color scheme. Second of all, it looks very bad on IntelliJ. See More

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Notepad++

Although not mentioned in the list of supported editors, on GitHub you can find a folder Notepad++ with xml files. Sadly it does not seem to work with newer Notepad++ versions. See More

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Looks bad

At least on Neovim. See More

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Light & dark themes

Dark theme does a good job of contrasting kvps. See More

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There are versions for a lot of applications or it's easy to make your own

There are ready-made packages for Vim, IntelliJ, Emacs, iTerm, etc. If your app isn't supported the website explains clearly what colors are used, so it should be easy to wrap up your own. See More

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Comes in 5 different variants

Comes in 5 different variations: Tomorrow, Tomorrow Night, Tomorrow Eighties, Tomorrow Blue and Tomorrow Night Bright. See More

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score 203 · Answer 6

Solarized Dark

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Too much blue

People caring about the color intensity in their screens, will notice that this theme is not useful for night use. If you use software like Flux to dim the blues in your screen this theme loses its enchant. See More

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There are versions for a lot of applications or it's easy to make your own

There are ready-made packages for Vim, IntelliJ, Emacs, iTerm, etc. If your app isn't supported the website explains clearly what colors are used, so it should be easy to wrap up your own. See More

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Low contrast

Comments for example, have very low contrast against the background which makes it harder to read. See More

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It seems that is has been given the most thought

Judging from the description that has been given by the author, it seems that this color scheme has been designed with huge background knowledge about colors and relations between them. See More

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Vanilla version doesn't work with htop

Half of the usernames in htop have the same color as the background. One has to use a patched version of htop. See More

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Works well with multiple fonts

Since Solarized has pretty good color separation it's easier to distinguish both thin and bold fonts. See More

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score 7 · Answer 7

Everforest

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Supports light backgrounds

Includes consistent color palettes for both dark and light modes. See More

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Colorful

Despite being primarily beige and green toned, the color scheme makes use of warm colors for some syntax highlighting groups, which can outshine the "calm" feeling in certain languages. See More

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Broad syntax and plugin support

Fine-turned for a wide range of third-party syntaxes and plugins, including Neovim's LSP and Treesitter. See More

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Italics support

If enabled, highlights comments and selected keywords in italics. See More

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Soothing green tones

A calm green-based color scheme which doesn't forget about warm colors. See More

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score 17 · Answer 8

Leuven

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Helpful for people with astigmatism

People with astigmatism prefer the bright white background since the extra light causes your pupils to contract, which makes your focus sharper. See More

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May cause eye strain

People with blue-light sensitivity may prefer a dark theme. See More

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Helpful for people with deuteranomaly

Leuven is a high-contrast theme preferring blue hues to red ones which makes it easier for people with deuteranomaly (most common form of red-green blindness) to distinguish different syntactical elements. See More

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score 14 · Answer 9

Material Theme

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Improves Sublime Text's user interface

The theme cleans up the interface so that all elements in the UI are easier to find without being distracting. The icons for each file type clearly define what the file is so there's no having to look too closely at file extensions. The color scheme choices (such as Oceanic Next Dark) in particular work well to distinguish functions, classes, keywords, properties, values, etc. for various languages. See More

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No contrast between main view and panels

Makes it hard to distinguish what's what at a glance. See More

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Visually appealing

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Developer pushes versions too often

Very little meat in each version. Has been known to dramatically change the color scheme. See More

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Full language support

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score 40 · Answer 10

Base16 family

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Contains many color-schemes

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Schemes are limited to 16 colors

You may not be able to use as many colors as you want for a particular application without manual manipulation since base 16 color schemes are limited to 16 colors. See More

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Out of the box support for many applications (vim, terminals, etc...)

Base16 template repositories on github have configurations for most popular applications where a color scheme can be applied. This reduces headache for users when applying or switching color schemes. See More

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Each theme needs manual tweaking

The base16 color schemes are really great but as a vim theme they require a lot of manual tweaking to be viable. One example is that in one theme a neon green bg is used with a white fd rendering any part of the vim UI that uses those two colors together illegible. See More

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Its Solarized Dark scheme is compatible with htop

This is just one example of an app that doesn't work with vanilla Solarized Dark (half of the usernames in htop have the same color as the background) One has to use a patched htop version. See More

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score 5 · Answer 11

Apathy

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Highly configurable

One of the only configurable syntax themes See More

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Custom tree view background image

Optional and looks awesome See More

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Semantic highlighting

Option to enable semantic highlighting for any un-scoped text. See More

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score 3 · Answer 12

Material Theme for Notepad++

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Based on popular themes

The theme is a port of another popular Sublime Text theme and hence is tried and tested See More

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Actively developed

The theme is quite new and is in active development. See More

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It's free

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Improves Notepad++'s user interface

Greatly improves the Notepad++ UI by using clean and modern colors. See More

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