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dracula / dracula-theme

dracula-theme

🧛🏻‍♂️ One theme. All platforms.

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23.6KGitHub stars
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🧛🏻‍♂️ One theme. All platforms.

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Observed mentions: 2019-06-26 15:51:53 UTC to 2022-10-31 15:00:11 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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EDIT: other answers point to base16 as a way to do this automatically. Use that. Leaving my previous comment here just in case. I think what the creator is doing is outsourcing the maintenance of each individual app to a maintainer that cares; the themes folder contains pointers to other repos: https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme/tree/master/themes I think that is a good idea. This could be used to "reverse-engineer a generic platform" relatively easily: 1: Fork Dracula and its themes 3: For each color in Dracula.Palette 4: Find and replace color.hex by color.refjex on themes 5: Find and replace "color.r,color.g,color.b" by color.refrgb on themes 6: Find and replace "color.h,color.s,color.l" by color.refhsl on themes The whole idea would be replacing #282a36 for a reference like `{{Background}}` and then us
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ing a templating language like handlebars or m4 to generate the themes. Of course steps 4,5 and 6 are more complex than 3 lines. One will have to come up with a way to filter out spaces, commas and other things. I expect a lot of the apps out there to expect hex numbers though.
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This is honestly the first time I'm hearing about someone monetizing a color scheme. I didn't even now such a thing was possible. Was it already popular before you started to monetize it? I see that the Github repo [0] has 12k+ stars, so I assume it was already pretty popular beforehand. Did you get more exposure (and GH stars) after the choice to monetize it? Also, what things does the bonus screencast cover? I just downloaded the Alacritty theme [1] and to my liking the background is too bright (I guess I prefer it darker than Dracula hehe), so I changed it to 0x000000, but other than that I like it, it's definitely pleasant on the eyes. [0]: https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme [1]: https://github.com/dracula/alacritty/tree/af38d360e9589a75a2...
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