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What are the best dark themes for text editors?
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Best dark themes for text editors
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Molokai
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Gruvbox
Free
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Dracula
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Tomorrow Theme
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Monokai
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Molokai
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Molokai
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Molokai
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Pros
4
Cons
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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.
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Too much contrast
Too clear on too dark causes eye strain.
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Looks great
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Too 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.
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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.
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Easy to install with Vundle
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Gruvbox
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Gruvbox
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Gruvbox
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Very easy on the eyes
Allows you to code for hours without any strain.
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Low contrast -> low eye strain
You can code all day long with this (and even all night long).
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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.
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Have light and dark version
Dark background has brown-yellowish retro colors, light background is yellowish with pastel highlights.
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Multiple contrast options
Three different variants are available, each with different contrasts.
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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: https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox-contrib If you are using a Jetbrains IDE: https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox-contrib
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Excellent customization keys
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Free
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Dracula
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Dracula
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Dracula
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5
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4
Cons
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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 and more.
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Hard on eyes
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Well designed
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Great in lots of languages
Even for Markdown.
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Perfect color pitch
Colors are perfectly pitched, easy to focus on scripts and shells.
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Tomorrow Theme
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Tomorrow Theme
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Tomorrow Theme
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5
Pros
4
Cons
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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 accelerates the eye movement, while reading CSS.
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Doesn't work with Sublime Text 3
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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.
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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.
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Light & dark themes
Dark theme does a good job of contrasting kvps.
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Monokai
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Monokai
My Recommendation for
Monokai
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5
Pros
4
Cons
1
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Pro
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Easy on the eyes
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Con
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The "neon" feel gets old after a while
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Good contrast
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Neutral background
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The best color scheme in sublime
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Solarized Dark
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Solarized Dark
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Solarized Dark
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Cons
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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.
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Low contrast
Comments for example, have very low contrast against the background which makes it harder to read.
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Peter J. Mello's Experience
When it comes to color schemes it's silly to pretend that one is objectively better than another. Solarized Dark instantly felt both comfortable and attractive to me and I have yet to find one that's superior to me in either regard.
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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.
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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.
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Base16 - Eighties Dark
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Base16 - Eighties Dark
My Recommendation for
Base16 - Eighties Dark
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Cons
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Balanced and simple
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Doesn't appear to support new HTML5 tags
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One Dark
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One Dark
My Recommendation for
One Dark
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Available on a wide range of applications
KDE Plasma, VsCode etc...
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Available as a base16 theme
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Calm blue background
If used with flux, it turns into warm gray during night.
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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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Monokai Pro
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Monokai Pro
My Recommendation for
Monokai Pro
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2
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Pleasing to the eye
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Hard to see whitespace in comments
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Specs
Light:
No
Dark:
Yes
Variants:
Yes
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Beautiful, yet not distracting UI
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EUR 9.95
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Relaxed Theme
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Relaxed Theme
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Relaxed Theme
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3
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1
Pros
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Available for different editors and Terminals
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Michael Kühnel's Experience
One of the best themes out there, very coherent, yet very clear.
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Very eye pleasing
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Noctilux
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Noctilux
My Recommendation for
Noctilux
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1
Pros
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Low-contrast comments
Gray-on black comments fade into the background so they don't distract you, but they're still bright enough to read when you want to.
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Wombat
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Wombat
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Wombat
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Obsidian
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Obsidian
My Recommendation for
Obsidian
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2
Pros
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Specs
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Pro
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Dark and muted yet high contrast
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