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Create Your Own Elegant Code Screenshots with Carbon

Nick Scialli (he/him) on April 16, 2020

I often get asked how I make "those great screenshots" of my code that I share on social media and here on dev.to. The answer is simple: I use the ...
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Prakhar Yadav •

Is there any alternative of carbon.now.sh?
C'mon there's got to be more like it!?

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Prakhar Yadav •

I'm forever grateful to you 🤩

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The Black Mamba🔥 •

You can also use codekeep.io/screenshot , it has preset templates , programming icon support and supports linking to the snippet, so you can copy paste em

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Sol Tig •

its awesome it helped me a lot thanks for mentioning it

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Martin Acosta •

I recommend an excellent extension: Polacode

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Nick Scialli (he/him) •

I used polacode for a while but found Carbon to be more visually appealing. To each their own!

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Garberchov •

Ok that is awesome. I see this screenshots all the time and I was convinced they were from photoshop.

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Abdur Rehman Khalid •

Thank you very much for sharing such an awesome tool.

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Ameed Jamous •

Carbon is one of my favs .

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13teju •

does anybody kown typewriter effect thing for source code, so just like screenshot we can get video of it ???

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Sol Tig •

thanks guys that helped me a lot