Show HN: Cobalt2 theme and colour scheme for Sublime Text

by wesbos • 12 years ago

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mparramon• 12 years ago

Is it available for Atom?

wesbos6• 12 years ago

I've started a port - the sidebar icons aren't there yet but the code highlighting is - https://github.com/wesbos/cobalt2-atom

Joyfield• 12 years ago

Would love this for Ultraedit && Notepad++. PEople would probably pay at least a dollar for this.

wesbos6• 12 years ago

I've ported it to Iterm and Zsh (https://github.com/wesbos/Cobalt2-iterm) as well as Atom (https://github.com/wesbos/Cobalt2-atom). If anyone wants to port to another editor, I'd be happy to let you use the name.

wesbos6• 12 years ago

Oh and for Alfred too! https://github.com/wesbos/Cobalt2-Alfred-Theme

bratsche• 12 years ago

Getting this on MonoDevelop would be great!

jarin2• 12 years ago

I would definitely like to see this ported to vim, I'm just not sure where to get started on that.

skrowl• 12 years ago

Now that Brackets.io is 1.0 and Atom is getting more mature, is Sublime Text really still relevant? It should go FOSS to stay competitive.

cr3ative• 12 years ago

Can Atom open files larger than 2MB yet?

Mtinie• 12 years ago

I ran into the limitation this morning, so as of 0.140.0, the answer is still "No" :(

matthewmacleod• 12 years ago

I don't really know that this is true.

Sublime is a zillion times faster than Atom, and brackets isn't something that enters into the same league as either. I don't see how open-sourcing will help it.

Luc2• 12 years ago

Sublime Text appears to be developed by someone who actively shuns his users, though.

RDDavies• 12 years ago

Hmm. The left navigation stuff doesn't seem to update.

wesbos6• 12 years ago

Read the readme - you need to enable the theme (different than the colour scheme) in your settings file: `"theme": "Cobalt2.sublime-theme"`

Raphmedia• 12 years ago

I would love a darker variant of this theme. Everything is so bright... !

benaiah• 12 years ago

I would greatly appreciate it if this made it into an Emacs theme, though a really good Emacs theme tends to be quite a bit more involved than a ST2 theme, since there's so much more to theme.

cryon• 12 years ago

There is https://github.com/cryon/subatomic which is kind of a mix between cobalt and zenburn.

mswift422• 12 years ago

You can easily roll your own Emacs theme with this Emacs theme creator https://github.com/mswift42/theme-creator.

jason_madigan• 12 years ago

Needed to restart before the Sidebar updated - but looks good!

jcampbell13• 12 years ago

I do not understand why people code on a dark background. I get the CRT retro aesthetic, but it is less readable on modern screens. Reflections on glossy displays become a problem. When was the last time you saw a website with a black background?

I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better.

wesbos6• 12 years ago

prolly jus hipsters

jarin2• 12 years ago

I can't explain why, but for me prose is easier to read on a light background and code is easier to read on a dark background. I imagine it has something to do with proportional fonts vs. monospace fonts and how the eye distinguishes the characters.

Edit: I think it may also have to do with the ability to distinguish colors used in syntax highlighting.

rgrieselhuber• 12 years ago

It might be a holdover from when I first learned to code, but I can't get into any sort of flow when trying to program on a light background.

Aldo_MX• 12 years ago

It's less tiresome for your eyes, eventually your eyes will demand you to use dark color schemes.

jcampbell13• 12 years ago

The opposite is true. The screen should match the ambient lighting of the room. Eye strain is caused by constant iris resizing. Looking at the screen, and the wall next to the screen shouldn't require you eye to adjust.

Flow• 12 years ago

I can recommend f.lux. With it the whole environment becomes of about the same light. Without it, and with a dark theme in your code editor you have one level of light, and when you switch to a web browser you can bombarded by photons. :-/

bzalasky2• 12 years ago

I actually had to switch to Solarized Light for awhile because my eyes couldn't stand white text on a dark background. I'm back to using a dark theme now though.

JonnieCache• 12 years ago

It's more l33t that way. We all just like pretending we're in swordfish.

bzalasky2• 12 years ago

I switch back and forth. Each year or so the colors start to make code look like work, so I change it up and things look fresh again. So far, I've gone between Slush & Poppies, Cobalt, Monokai, Solarized Dark, Monokai, Solarized Light, and most recently Cyberpunk (the Emacs Live theme).

coldtea5• 12 years ago

Dark backgrounds are easier on the eyes, especially on dimmer environments.

I don't want the full power of the LED backlight to hit me on the eyes with its full force in my editor screen which I look into for 8+ hours a day...

I can't tell if people coding on dark backgrounds are hipsters, or just don't know any better.

Or perhaps you don't know any better...

jcampbell13• 12 years ago

This is often repeated nonsense. What is hard on your eyes is changing intensity. Switching between dark code and light email is the problem. The screen should also be about the same brightness as the room, so looking away from the computer doesn't require eye adjustment.

The transition from dark to light is mildly painful, so you have a false sensation that the dark background is better because switching away from it is irritating.

alexeyza• 12 years ago

Very cool theme.

jaigouk• 12 years ago

I love it. coffee / js icons in sidebar are very useful. :D

hadees• 12 years ago

I wish there was a base16 (https://github.com/chriskempson/base16) theme that fully skinned sublime like this does.

jrolfs• 12 years ago

It's not too hard, I adapted Ian Hill's Soda (which clearly was also used for a lot of the UI in this theme) to Solarized for the same reason here: https://github.com/jrolfs/sodarized. I'd be happy to answer any questions about doing so for base16.

vegancap• 12 years ago

Oh man, I love those icons! Great stuff!

astral303• 12 years ago

Very nice, reminds me of the old Borland Turbo Pascal and Turbo C colors.

CWIZO• 12 years ago

Wait, I thought it's not possible to style the sidebar in ST (or at least not much)? I was searching for a plugin that would show Git status in my sidebar (as Atom does) but everywhere I looked people were saying it's not possible because of this limitation in ST.

Looks very good btw.

wesbos6• 12 years ago

There is no sidebar API, yet. But in the latest ST3 release they allow for custom icons. Hopefully we will see more sidebar APIs so we can do things like color code files based on their git status.

eam• 12 years ago

I've been using this plugin for git status: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/GitGutter

plingamp• 12 years ago

Looks cool, but this is still my favorite theme for Sublime: http://kkga.github.io/spacegray/

rmsaksida• 12 years ago

My favorite as well.

It's also a perfect match for the Numix desktop theme, which I find lovely: https://numixproject.org/

padho• 12 years ago

You did a great job bro!

mwagstaff• 12 years ago

Great looking theme, although I'm a real fan of Brogrammer. Dodgy name, but very stylish.

https://github.com/kenwheeler/brogrammer-theme

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