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Solarized Dark

Solarized Dark is a precision color for machines and people. It’s a carefully designed palette of colors that work together. It’s readable at any size, on any display. It’s a reading-friendly color scheme that looks beautiful on your screen and in print. It is a set of color schemes designed with both developers and users in mind. It has several modes, including support for both low- and high-contrast color schemes. It is modeled after programming modes such as Vim-Powerline and less after other themes that only do syntax highlighting.

Solarized Dark is a simple, elegant, readable color scheme for text. It was inspired by the famous Isokon curved lines and lettering. This package is specifically for the dark variant of this color scheme. It’s great for programming in languages like Python, Ruby, Elixir, Clojure, Erlang, JavaScript, and CSS/Sass/Less. It uses lower contrast than the original Solarized to increase readability for people who spend long hours in front of computer screens. Overall it’s the best color theme for a coding environment.

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Solarized Dark Alternatives

#1 Material Theme for Notepad++

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Material Theme for Notepad++ is a theme for Notepad++, which maintains the original look and feel but adds some useful features. It can be selected by changing the material theme in the notepad++ file. For example, you can add the [notepad plus] section in the notepad++ file and put material theme is equal to true there to use Material Theme as the default theme. It is the most epic theme for Notepad++. It’s inspired by Google’s Material Design and is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

It comes with ten different color schemes and a huge number of options that make your coding experience better. It provides a lot of new shortcuts on the menu and toolbar, which are pretty useful. You can find them easily. Its main change is based on the color material design which is used by Google. It allows you for Source Codes and Syntax Highlighting. It enables you to change icons (Windows, Linux, and macOS). In short, it’s the perfect theme for a coding environment.

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#2 One Dark

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One dark UI design is one of the most popular design styles in the last few years. It has been among the top trends on Dribble for quite some time, and there are a lot of showcase websites created in this style. The most important advantage of its design is that it’s appealing to the user. When testing various designs, its UI performs better than its counterparts. There is no built-in support for everything, but all of the basic things should be covered.

One dark is inspired by the syntax theme, which itself is based on the Atom.io editor. It has been created to be as close as possible to the syntax theme while being readable in most light themes. It can work with any syntax theme you install, including those you have created yourself. It auto-selects the correct syntax theme if you have both enabled at the same time. Overall it’s the best color theme for a coding environment.

#3 Nord

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Nord is a stunning weather app with a colorful layer of features that will make your everyday adventures even more enjoyable. It helps you stay up to date with weather conditions and forecasts no matter where you are in the world. Whether you’re planning your next holiday or preparing for that important business trip, always knowing the weather forecast gives you confidence, making your plans feel more real.

Nord is a free extension that helps you to keep your shopping lists synchronized between the computer and your smartphone. With the extension, you have access to your list on any browser, whether you are at home or not. It is currently available on Chrome and only in US English. It is available for both desktop and mobile devices. It’s like a little app you can use to take a picture of your screen and share it. In short, it’s the perfect theme for a coding environment.

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#4 Apathy

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Apathy is a port of the coding environment Textmate for Sublime Text. It is a collection of packages that extend Sublime Text with additional features and markup languages. It is a syntax theme for Emacs. It’s designed to highlight things like elisp code and URLs in an attempt to make them more noticeable. It supports nearly every language and works in Atom, Sublime Text, Vim, and Terminal. It’s an arctic, north-bluish color palette in a box.

It is a new product that helps you share your screen with friends and colleagues or the whole internet. If you’ve ever found yourself in need of a good color scheme for your favorite text editor or terminal emulator but just couldn’t find the right one, it is an easy way to get started. The hue was adjusted in order to allow the colors to be used in combination with each other without much issue and to allow pairs of complementary colors to be easily distinguishable. Overall it’s the best color theme for a coding environment.

#5 Leuven

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Leuven is an Emacs color theme for light background. This theme is a fork of the Onyx theme. It has some new colors and a few minor details. It is also more straightforward in usage than the original Onyx theme. It tries to make good contrast between foreground and foreground by using different color schemes. It is excellent for both code and prose. It is based on the Solarized palette, which was made by Ethan Schoonover. The theme is available in two variants: light and dark.

The light variant tries to keep a low contrast between the different colors, so it can be used on bright as well as on dark backgrounds. The dark variant uses high contrast, so it can only be used on dark backgrounds. It is optimized for viewing LaTeX documents but also comes with a variant for use in Emacs with a dark background. The colors are based on the colors used in the full-color printed version of Engineering Formulas. In short, it’s the perfect theme for a coding environment.

#6 Dracula

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Dracula is a dark, highly customizable theme for text editors and Atom. It is built on the Dracula framework and a collection of themes and plugins. It is a simple dark theme for Vim and Neovim, supporting both light and dark color schemes. Dracula is a dark theme for Atom, Alfred, Brackets, Emacs, and many more. Windows 10 users should search for and install Dracula Theme from the Microsoft Store.

If you’ve ever found yourself in need of a good color scheme for your favorite text editor or terminal emulator but just couldn’t find the right one, it is an easy way to get started. It is modeled after programming modes such as Vim-Powerline and less after other themes that only do syntax highlighting. The hue was adjusted in order to allow the colors to be used in combination with each other without much issue and to allow pairs of complementary colors to be easily distinguishable. Overall it’s the best color theme for a coding environment.

#7 Gruvbox

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Gruvbox is a color scheme for the text editor Vim, inspired by the retro groove color schemes. It aims to be easy on the eyes yet be suitable for both dark and light backgrounds in order to have less code but still be compatible with all major modes. If you’ve ever found yourself in need of a good color scheme for your favorite text editor or terminal emulator but just couldn’t find the right one, it is an easy way to get started.

Gruvbox is a port of the Solarized color palette created by Ethan Schoonover. It is designed with code quality in mind, with a gritty and readable design aesthetic. It is a set of 16 colors that represent the stock colors in Red Hat Linux 9. In making the colors, it made slight modifications to the Red Hat colors, namely lowering the saturation of each color and adjusting the hue slightly. In short, it’s the perfect theme for a coding environment.

#8 Molokai

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Molokai is a Vim port of the monokai theme for TextMate originally created by Wimer Hazenberg. It supports 256, 88, 16, and 8 color terminals. It is highly configurable via arrays and let-bound variables and has a simple syntax for creating themes. It has a bright interplay between foreground and background colors, making it ideal for programming and terminal work in particular. It provides better syntax highlighting and overall presentation of code.

It offers support for both light and dark backgrounds, as well as ruby and slim. The goal of this project is to provide an easy way to use this awesome theme in Vim as well. It supports dark and light backgrounds, ruby, slim, tags, and a lot more. It also includes an initialized version for the standard model line. It is modeled after programming modes such as Vim-Powerline and less after other themes that only do syntax highlighting. Overall it’s the best color theme for a coding environment.

#9 Tomorrow Theme

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Tomorrow Theme is a syntax theme for Vim. It has many features such as being fully compatible with vim-plug, Supporting many file types, being Lightweight and faster, supporting color scheme author customization, supporting enhanced syntax highlighting with colors and improved performance, and Supporting both 4 and 5 line highlights, and much more. It offers full support for 256 colors terminals (most terminal emulators). Many terminals, including Apple Terminal, iTerm 2, xterm, PuTTY, Gnome Terminal, Konsole, Terminator, and more.

Currently, it supports many plugins such as Syntastic (Vim and python) and YouCompleteMe (Vim). It provides a night/dark theme for Vim that matches its color schemes. It is modeled after programming modes such as Vim-Powerline and less after other themes that only do syntax highlighting. It is a syntax theme that has a set of colors, ANSI sequences, and charsets tailored to the format of a specific file type or language. In short, it’s the perfect theme for a coding environment.