When comparing One Dark vs Everforest, the Slant community recommends One Dark for most people. In the question“What are the best VIM color-schemes?” One Dark is ranked 6th while Everforest is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose One Dark is:
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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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro Available for vim
Pro Available on a wide range of applications
KDE Plasma, VsCode etc...
Pro Available for Intellij IDEA
Pro Available for Atom clones and Sublime
Possibly for others too
This theme is a default one for Atom text editor.
Pro Default theme for Doom Emacs
Pro Calm blue background
If used with flux, it turns into warm gray during night.
Pro Available as a base16 theme
Pro Includes GUI themes
Pro Supports light backgrounds
Includes consistent color palettes for both dark and light modes.
Pro Broad syntax and plugin support
Fine-turned for a wide range of third-party syntaxes and plugins, including Neovim's LSP and Treesitter.
Pro Italics support
If enabled, highlights comments and selected keywords in italics.
Pro Soothing green tones
A calm green-based color scheme which doesn't forget about warm colors.
Cons
Con Ports to other applications are not always accurate.
Con Kind of fadey
The colors aren't that bright (which may be good for some people).
Con 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.
