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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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Michael Zabala (Mike)
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Prakhar Yadav

I'm forever grateful to you 🤩

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Sarun W.
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The Black Mamba🔥
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Shan Asif

Yes there is a Carbon.now.sh alternative i.e Snappify which is better and advance.

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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

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items...

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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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Sol Tig

thanks guys that helped me a lot

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13teju

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