What are the best color themes for text editors?

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Laura Kyle
Cosmo Myzrail Gorynych

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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.

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Alberto Barradas

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Available for vim

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Available on a wide range of applications

KDE Plasma, VsCode etc...

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gline9

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Available for Intellij IDEA

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Laura Kyle
Cosmo Myzrail Gorynych

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Available for Atom clones and Sublime

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

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SpontaneousSnotra

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Default theme for Doom Emacs

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Cosmo Myzrail Gorynych

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Calm blue background

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

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Available as a base16 theme

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Cosmo Myzrail Gorynych

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Includes GUI themes

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DynamicOmoikane

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Ports to other applications are not always accurate.

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Svjatoslavs Krasnikovs
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Kind of fadey

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

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Very comfortable to the eye.
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LogicalSalacia

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Kind of fadey

The colors aren't that bright (which may be good for some people). I don't exactly want neon but can you get at least a little more vibrant?

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