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Jeff Kreeftmeijer
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What's your favorite editor/terminal color scheme?

For an article I'm writing; what's your favorite editor/terminal color scheme? How long have you been using it, and what did you use before? And, perhaps most importantly, do you use the same scheme in your editor and terminal? Bonus points for posting screenshots of your setup in action!

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Alexandru Bucur

Solarized dark as it's present on all of my tools, not too bad on the eyes, and i like consistency.

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Reese Poirier

I hop color schemes pretty frequently. I have moderate to strong protan colorblindness and most color schemes out there just don't have enough contrast between the colors for me to have an easy time differentiating them.

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Michael Minshew

I have a dark theme that i've customized for my text editor, I.e. i have comments in pink because it catches my attention when skimming through code.

My terminal is just basic boring stock. I've seen some AMAZING setups and really need to use a better terminal but i've become used to just the simple boring old cli

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Drew Knab

I use Dracula everywhere it's possible to use Dracula.

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Yann Rabiller

Oh, lovely!

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Devin W. Leaman • Edited

I use Visual Studio Code and I'm a huge fan of the Panda theme combined with the Material Icon Theme for their beautiful icons. I also added a slight customization to the workbench colors:

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "activityBar.background": "#263238",
    "editorIndentGuide.activeBackground": "#B2DFDB",
    "sideBarSectionHeader.background": "#263238",
    "statusBar.background": "#388E3C"
}

Resulting in an editor like so:

VS_Code_Image

Full res available here

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Tori Pugh • Edited

I've become pretty addicted to Brogrammer. It's a great dark background with very colorful type. It doesn't strain my eyes too much and I like the bright colors. I didn't use anything before and then I found Sublime and VS Code and I can't think about going back to something uncustomized. I keep my editor and my terminal separate in look, I'm fine with a dark terminal scheme. I'm not in it as much as my editor.

Brogrammer In Action

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Philip Karlsson

I really dig the VS Code theme "Level up official", marketplace.visualstudio.com/items....

I find it very pleasant for my eyes, especially at night or when it's dark.

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Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Thanks for all the responses so far! It seems like Solarized, Monokai and Dracula are (still) the most popular. I used both Solarized and Monokai myself in the past.

I've been using my own appsignal.terminal for the last two years. Since I'm using Vim in tmux from the terminal, using a terminal theme combined with a sixteen-color Vim theme was the easiest way to get the same colors in both my terminal and editor. I switch between the dark and light versions a couple of times a week.

appsignal.terminal dark

appsignal.terminal light