Since January, I've been using my own light theme for Omarchy (do you use Linux and don't know Omarchy yet? Go check it out!) and I forgot to make an official announcement! So, yes, this late post is an attempt to rectify this mistake.
Alucard: a light theme for Omarchy (and the arch-enemy of Dracula)
I'm a die hard fan of the Dracula theme and I have been using it for years. And, as you might have guessed, I've been using everything I could with a dark theme. But, I have moved to a new house, which is super illuminated by the sun throughout the day with massive windows and, using dark themes with so much natural light proved to be a difficult task. Omarchy (my Linux distro of choice) comes very well served of beautiful themes and I started to use either Flexoki Light or Catppuccin Latte during the day. Yet, neither were quite my taste and I knew there were already a light version of the Dracula theme called Alucard that was offered by their Pro package. When I went to their website to check it out, I found out a quite complete specification for the Dracula and the Alucard theme, so, I did what any developer who loves open source do: I scratched my own itch, I mean, I started working on the Alucard theme for Omarchy and I have been using it everyday since January.
The road to get everything working beautifully
When I started digging into the specification and building the theme, I found out a lot of applications (Alacritty, btop, Chromium, Ghostty, and Kitty) didn't had official Alucard themes, so I started building them myself (I yet have to create single repositories for them and open a PR to the Dracula team, I'll be doing it shortly). It took a few iterations for me to get satisfied with the color combinations, but everything worked beautifully.
The wallpapers
Currenttly, the theme is distributed with three wallpapers: Dracula Waves, Dracula Mountain, and Dracula Galaxy, all of which were taken from the official Dracula wallpapers repository. I simply love the Dracula Waves walppaper and that's why it's the first choice when you install the theme.
The repository
All the code is available at douglasdemoura/omarchy-alucard-theme. Feel free to send your feedback and contributions to make it event better.
The installation
If you are using Omarchy, you can install the Alucard theme with the command below:
omarchy-theme-install https://github.com/douglasdemoura/omarchy-alucard-theme
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