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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Here's mine. Yes, I'm a villain.
I've been using a light theme since I got irked from tabbing from a dark themed editor into light coloured websites in the middle of the night with lights off. My eyes can't handle the total colour change. Most websites doesn't have night mode so I chose to be a villain. (White theme!)
First off, props for being a villain and proud. We need more like you around.
That said, if you would like to try the dark side again, I recommend looking into Dark Reader. I'm not sure if they have a Firefox version or not, but I use it on Chrome and it's a lifesaver. An easy click will turn the dark version off or on for any site.
That’s the only reason I was excited for Apple’s Dark Mode announcement —Hopefully I can poke around on my MBP at night without being blinded
You've inspired me to become a villain and use a light theme from now on!
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Browser addons to the rescue - try "Dark background light text" for Firefox.
I also use PaperColor for my VS Code and Vim.
Long live light theme!!
Thank you! PaperColor is almost what I was looking for. It has some minor low contrast issues (mostly with 3rd party extensions), but I love it
I love An Old Hope! I've either found ports or ported it to pretty much everything I use: Hyper term, iTerm2, VS Code, Vim, etc.
⚛️ Atom theme inspired by a galaxy far far away...
An Old Hope
Atom theme inspired by a galaxy far far away...
By Jesse Leite
UI Integration
This theme best integrates with Atom's One Dark UI. By default, UI is left untouched. If you want the modified UI (as shown in the screenshot below) for better colour matching between UI syntax theme, add the following line to your Init Script and reload Atom.
Screenshot
I use that one too! I hadn't considered porting it over, but now I'll have to look into getting it into RubyMine cause I prefer it over what I'm using there (Monokai).
My own: vim termite
They've been in their current state for about a year, but had been taking shape gradually for around another year before that when I migrated to Linux and decided to put some effort into colorschemes instead of just using the defaults.
Awesome setup :)
Dracula - draculatheme.com/
I've been using it for around 1+ year and I used to be a one dark theme user.
I use gruvbox for pretty much everything, though I tweak it a little bit (darker backgrounds in Vim, transparent background in terminals with an almost-black textured image as the background instead).
I've been happy with this since the day I discovered it:
Before this I used (probably) something like Tango for the terminal colours and Molokai or Jellybeans for Vim. I can't work well with light backgrounds.
I can't stand Solarized or its derivatives, which seems to be everyone's go-to scheme. I'm aware that Gruvbox takes some inspiration from Solarized but it does it in a much less annoying way and my customisations are mostly to up the contrast anyway.
Cobalt2 by WesBos for VSCode (6 Months)
A slightly modified robbyrussell for the zsh-terminal (it's the default theme) (For Years)
The Leuven Theme for Emacs (Org-Mode) (Two Weeks)
I use the Liberation Mono Font for everything. (Since Handmade Hero came out)
I use VS Code and was using Cobalt2 as a theme and going between it and Dracula. For the terminal, I'm on fish shell and use the Agnoster theme when using Cobalt2 and the Joker Theme when using Dracula in my editor.
My Visual Studio Code Setup
ℕ𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕋𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣
However, recently, I switched to the Night Owl theme in my editor.
I've been using Fira Code for quite some time now as I'm a big fan of its font ligatures, but recently I purchased Dank Mono. I never thought I'd pay for a font, but I just think it's 🔥!
So here's my latest screenshot of my editor/terminal
Fira is the best!
I've never considered moving the explorer to the right. I'm gonna try that!
Jetbrains products: Darcula
Anything else: Whatever I can find that is closest to Darcula.
Darcula Look and Feel
Darcula Theme
The official Darcula Look and Feel for programming environments by Konstantin Bulenkov.
Darcula is a Look-n-Feel for Java desktop application and a theme for code editors. This repository focused mainly on Java look-n-feel and contains ready to use library here github.com/bulenkov/Darcula/blob/m...
Darcula Look-n-Feel is licensed under Apache 2.0 license and can be used in commercial products free of charge. However, I strongly ask you to use original theme name "Darcula" in your product. Links to this project from your products or a simple mention are very welcome, but not necessary.
List of projects with Darcula theme:
Please send me your project to add here
Resources about how to create your own look and feel can be found at Oracle's official website: docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/ui...
I in the middle of trying the material theme for Jetbrains at home and work since the icons and feel is so nice, but I have it set to still use Darcula for the editor.
JetBrains theme of Material Theme
Material Theme UI for Jetbrains
This is a Material Theme port of both the IDE and Color scheme for JetBrains products.
Plugin page plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-...
Documentation material-theme.com
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And him too :*
Plugin
Supported IDEs
Thanks to the awesome guys at JetBrains the plugin is now supported on pretty much all IDE, however there might be some issues on Rider since it's a different SDK. Android Studio is partly supported.
Installation
iTerm and similar tools I change frequently in the endless quest to Darcula all the things.
I switch between Dracula
and FairyFloss
. For the terminal, I use spaceship for zsh! I have it tweaked to be more pink though! 
I was used to Solarized Dark, but a few months ago I switched to Zenburn in my terminal and Emacs, and I'm happy with it.