Viewers with high refresh rate monitors might notice some jitter in this video - it was filmed and edited in 25p and the slightly stuttering animations only became apparent after the upload. Sorry for that! Future videos will be filmed in 30p. Wallpapers: nc.weirdrescue.pw/index.php/s/wtXEfbWbpoj9YPA Articles about Solarized: www.wired.com/story/very-mathematical-history-perfect-color-combination/ observer.com/2015/02/meet-the-man-behind-solarized-the-most-important-color-scheme-in-computer-history/
He starts the video with Dracula, my favorite. But he begins with "Dracula only gets 5 out of 10 for aesthetics." What? Thumbs down. Unsubbed. Un-friended on social media. You will not get a Christmas card from me this year! :D
I am happy to hear that you like Nord so much 😊 Good to see that you clarify that this is your personal opinion with your own evaluation criteria instead of producing another clickbait listing of “the best themes“. It's important to always keep in mind that everyone has different preferences and that this fact is the reason why themes exist at all.
Coming from the the medical field, let me add some (possible) lore to the Dracula scheme: assuming the guy was indeed hospitalized for pankreatitis, I would blame the food for the colors. I can assure you that there is no blander, non-pleasing and overall pale greyish food than the special diet designed for pankreas patients. In adults you will likely never see a more disappointed facial expression than when the patient lifts up the cover over his food for the first time only to discover a variety of bland toast, curd, cottage cheese, grey bread, flour soup or oats. Under those circumstances, I wonder why the colors are not popping more and have a more extreme contrast. Obviously I have not even finished watching, but .. nice one!
I'm not going to lie, Monokai has never looked good to me in any program other then Sublime Text. I just love it there but hate it in VS Code for example. I dunno why, but it really bothers my eyes in anything other them Sublime.
@@AlucardNoir I agree. I think the reason why I agree is because Sublime came out before a lot of these other editors, so now I just associate monokai *with* sublime. i.e. now I'm primed to associate monokai with sublime so seeing it anywhere else feels out of place
Once I heard your comparison of Dracula and Gruvbox and your preferences, I realized that what you rate as something you like is just the reverse for me. I want the saturation in colors and have difficulty with less saturated ones like in Gruvbox. "Easy on the eyes" are in the eyes of the beholder.
My favourite theme is Monokai and I use it on my entire system. I use it with a different background color of #282828 though instead of the default one. Default is fine, I just kinda prefer it like this personally. Second favourite is gruvbox. Just all around good theme, personally I think it's kind of a better looking solarized theme.
You know, maybe nobody asked for a review of color schemes, but at least I really enjoyed it. Don't know what it is, but something in your videos just makes them, genuine, I guess. Really glad I've stumbled upon your channel. Thanks for effort and keep it up!)
Light color themes don't seem to get much love so I want to give a shoutout to Two Firewatch which has a great light theme. The dark one seems cool as well. But I think it's only available for vim.
I like Horizon and ayu but sometimes I also use a monochromatic color scheme where important keywords are more highlighted and less important elements are de-emphasized using monochromatic colors (e.g. gray or toned).
Dude the audio is fine, don't sweat it. I was bored some time ago and made a shell script to download and install some terminal themes, I particularly like Earthsong.
Okay I work as a software engineer and I’ve genuinely never had any strong feelings about colour schemes, apart from that dark themes are better. What is the advantage to using a dark grey background colour as opposed to pure black?
I started off with Solarized but got headaches. After trying a hundred or so color schemes, the five I use (in VS Code) are Noctis Lux, Cobalt2, feelgood, Monokai Pro, and New Moon. With light themes I use Cascadia Code 400 weight, with dark themes I use Office Code Pro 300 weight.
While I can't speak about the mentioned VS Code themes, I agree with you 100% on Solarized. I dunno how other people stand it. Dracula is only partially better. BTW, what are your thoughts on VS Codes default theme and the default Monokai that comes with it. I love the default theme and hate the Monokai that VS Code ships.
@@AlucardNoir The Dark+ (default dark) with VS Code is good, I agree. You might like New Moon as well. I can't look at the Monokai included with VS Code but Monokai Pro is good and comes with five or six versions. By the way, there is a "Better Solarized" that truly is a little better.
I too use Cascadia Code(Caskaydia Cove for nerds) with Monokai Pro. I slightly changed the background color to a bit darker shade of the original one to #222023
I end up with gruvbox in vim. I don't like it. I feels like it's not beautiful. But I choose it because somehow, my eyes doesn't hurt on that color theme.
I personally love dracula because it revolves around purple and I love this color. I understand that it may be too contrasted for some, but for me it's a requirement, I love colorful, saturated and yet pleasant colorschemes, it helps with the mood and well dracula achieves just that.
You're wrong about many aspects of gruvbox. Gruvbox has the same color properties as solarized in which the light and dark themes are equidistant from the neutral point. Additionally, all the colors are evenly geometrically separated. There is also a specification for the specific RGB values. There is also lore behind it. It's based on solarized but it's optimized for a warmer color scheme to reduce eye fatigue. This is all on the Github.
I'm not sure if we're reading the same github. Would you mind providing a link? There's no mention of equal distance or geometrical color separation here github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
wpgtk uses pywal but also has the ability to "auto adjust" which, If I have understood correctly makes the eight pywal colors into 16. Not by doing anything fancy mathematically, but a definite improvement. Iosevka = The best set of fonts.
I found Everforest Enchanted in Obsidian and love it's warm dark tones. In general I'm another huge Nord fan. For Gnome there are a lot of variations of it. Unfortunately, I had a lot of problems to get it working consistently on all my programs and finally switched back to stock dark Adwaita.
Dude, any content for you is good, I don't care if is just pure SP, I love it, also, wow I can't believe you also love Nord, what it calls my attention is that I ALSO love solarize, some type of pattern maybe? Anyway, I didn't imagine nord would be in this video, and that makes me happy, can't wait for part 2
I really like solarized light when I want a light environment, jerk. Lol. Thanks for pointing out Nord! I am trying it now in KDE and it looks nice AND whoever made the preset did a great job and not setting Too much transparency (which I normally never like, but this is nice). I did set the green shade to #75be73 instead though. But that's because I have a color blindness issue where certain shades of green look almost exactly like yellows...not easy when reading Ansible output
I think Nord looks pretty good on MacOS, but so-so no other platforms. I've found the blue tint to be tiring and headache inducing also, still it is not as bad as dracula, maybe that one was made for old washed out TN panels? Gruvbox is not so pretty but very easy on the eyes. I'm using chalk from base16 terminal and zenburn personally. After trying out dozens.
You missed the chance to turn on the light and then just blast the Fugue in D minor to really set the spooky tone of Dracula lol - would have been really funny!
monokai? I don't use it myself (I'm a vim user and I just don't like how it looks on vim), but ik it's avaliable basically everywhere, so it would score high in that category at least.
Calling Solarized light terrible? How dare you? No but seriously, while I use the dark variant almost exclusively I think the light one is underrated and actually a lot better in lighter environments where the dark one can become unreadable in extreme cases. But thanks for showing gruvbox, it looks really great as well.
I do like light themes (including Solarized). How dare you! Hahaha! :D I gave you an upvote for the cool vid, tho. Also thanks for sharing Gruvbox, I installed it, the light version is cool!
Hello Wolfgang, as far as your diclaimer went about accoustic panels go I was say get some of those accoustic Ceiling Tiles full panel size and place them around the room? that may help you out.
You khow how when you are talking about colors you need to show them? The splash in the begining doesn't count. In fact these color swatches are so tiny that evaluating the theme is hard.
please look up and use the 180 degree rule when filming 99% of anything. It adds motion blur that isn't in this video and really improves the human aspect of your content.
Would have liked to see the schemes on screen for much much longer. Would have preferred more colour schemes compared too, like maybe 20, and review them quicker and less detailed.
i use tomorrow and i really like it easy on the eyes , very good colours , also nicer contrast and the dark theme bg color is gray ( nighter brown nor navy ) which is what i like
I use Solarized on most of my systems (mostly Linux). On Windows, it was a bit of pain to get it working correctly. Putty was easy enough though tedious as it required using the registry editor and cut/paste of the color scheme for each host. I have a lot of hosts, but not enough to figure out how to script it in Powershell. Installing the theme on the Windows command prompt and WSL was an absolute PITA. All said, once I finally got Solarized installed, I found it the easiest on my eyes and eye fatigue is definitely better than with the default 1980's console theme.
Aww, so you basically imply Solarized won that? WTF 😂 In all seriousness though, I've seen Nord for the first time and it's freaking awesome. I'm in Nord gang now!
Everybody: has a life, probably works at google as a coder Wolfgang: Rating 5 Most Popular Terminal Color Schemes during quarantine Mache nur Spaß xD Bessere Videos gibt es nicht auf RU-vid, durch dich bin ich auf fancy Linux gekommen, weiter, als KDE Plasma Terminal Blur, lol
I need a color scheme that doesn't get destroyed when red light or f.lux kicks in. In general I don't like the color schemes that use colors on the blue/violet end of the spectrum, they can really be exhausting at night.
i like solarized but is a mess on truecolor terminal, the autocomplete box become pink and the text onside is pink, and the zsh auto suggest color is become invisible, so i jump to gruvbox and dracula. Nord, try it one time is too boring for me, so many color become too dim for my tast, just personal tast at this point. Found a solarized name "NeoSolarized" on github that support truecolor, I can use solarized again.
Best for me would be a Nord theme but with different colors instead of different shades of blue. I love the palette and pastel colors, but having everything blue makes it so hard to read in my opinion
I'm really impressed by this video, it is probably THE best theme discussion I've come across in months. As a frequent theme-hopper (I like to keep things fresh), I have done quite some extensive research in many themes, and I agree with your theme choices and verdicts almost 100 per cent.
Damn it was actually one of the most excruciating vids to film. I just got a new camera and was struggling a lot with settings, had to refilm the whole thing like 3 times