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Conlin Durbin
Conlin Durbin

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Introducing Dank Neon, a new open source code theme!

Hello friends! I have an exciting new project to share with you! For the past few months, a friend and I have been tweaking and refining Dank Neon, a new editor theme for lovers of neon!

We are working hard to get the community built out and would love any input and contributions that you have! The whole project is open source and you can find it here on Github. I'll be spending some time soon to set up some good first issues and making a list of next steps! Here are some screenshots of Dank Neon in action:

dank neon for vs code

Dank Neon for VS Code

dank neon for iterm

Dank Neon for iTerm

dank neon for sublime

Dank Neon for Sublime Text

What do you think about the theme? What do you like? What do you hate? What tools should we look at adding the theme to?

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Will S

What about JetBrains (Android Studio, IdeaIC, PyCharm, etc)? Would be willing to help out with that.

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Conlin Durbin

I'll get a repo up, if someone wants to start it!

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Sung M. Kim

Oh, I really like the VS Code theme there, Conlin~

Would you have a plan to create a Hyper.js theme by chance?

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Conlin Durbin

I went ahead and made a repo for it - I'll look into creating the theme, but if you are interested in doing it feel free to make a PR!

github.com/DankNeon/hyper

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Sung M. Kim

Wow thanks a bunch. That is hyper dank 😉

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Conlin Durbin

For sure! We could definitely get that! Or, if you would be interested, you can make it and we can add it! I don't mind creating one, but this is also an open source project! :D

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Marco Kellershoff

Dank Neon for Neovim + kitty + tmux 🤔♥️

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Jacobi Petrucciani

Kitty theme is available here!

github.com/DankNeon/kitty

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oburejin

Looks nice, but a status bar on the bottom is too bright, would be easier on eyes if darker, like on a sublime.

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Conlin Durbin

I agree! I need to spend some time tweaking the various settings!

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Conlin Durbin

Fixed this! Now it is all themed with Dank Neon colors!

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tiff

This breaks my Markdown syntax highlighting 😢

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Conlin Durbin

Which editor?

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tiff

VSCode

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Conlin Durbin

I will be working on this soon!

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tiff

Thank you so much!

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Conlin Durbin

It's done! The marketplace version should have basic markdown highlighting now! Let me know what you like/don't like. It can be tweaked

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tiff

Yay! I’m going to get it now! Rad theme. Really like it!

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tiff • Edited

Here are a couple photos:

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Michael Harding

Hey, I made a personal Firefox theme based on Dank Neon (tried to follow the spirit of it using the same colors). Would you be okay if I published it, or should I link you to it so you can?

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Conlin Durbin

Go for it! If you want to publish the code, that would be awesome!

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Michael Harding • Edited

I just used firefox color haha. Here's a quick link to the colors I did: fossurl.ml/#whwn5

Edit: Here it is on the Firefox add-on marketplace: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/a...

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Conlin Durbin

Looks good! If you have code sometime, let me know and I'll get you a repo!

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Kyle Peeler

How did you get the iterm title bar to not show in the screenshot?

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Kyle Peeler

Sweet thanks Conlin! Also p.s. kinda surreal to see some people on here I remember from school hah... hope all is well!

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Conlin Durbin

Haha I have the same thing with @dangolant and @milkstarz . I love seeing comments and posts from people I know! Hope things are good with you too!

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Daniel Golant

smol world

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Conlin Durbin

its a smol whirled after all

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Nicolas Dextraze

Jetbrains InteliJ IDEs

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David J Eddy

Just started using this in VS Code.

Why did you not show off the light theme. ❤️ 'ing it hard right now.

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Conlin Durbin

Haha it is still "in beta". I need to do some more work on it, but I am super glad you like it! Be sure to open an issue on Github if there are things you want changed!

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David J Eddy

It reminds me (in a good way) of the Tower Control UI in the 2nd (?) Matrix movie.

Other than some spacing issues, it looks great.

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Conlin Durbin

Awesome! Let me know what the spacing issues are! I'll for sure work on fixing them.

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Gonçalo Morais

I would love to see a light version… 🤞🏻

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Conlin Durbin

I'm in the planning stages on this! Gotta figure out all the colors and how they should work!

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Conlin Durbin

Here is the repo! github.com/DankNeon/atom

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Stephanie Handsteiner • Edited

Sent you a PR with the basic style set.

As the “non-editor“ UI bits are separated from the syntax theme in Atom, I'll also be making an UI theme, to have those styled accordingly. 😉

Current look

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Conlin Durbin

Merged! Looking good! github.com/DankNeon/atom

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Evaldas Buinauskas

Will check it out! Great job Conlin 👌

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Chris DeLuca

Suggestion: a visual source-of-truth color swatches like in Solarized?

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Conlin Durbin

It's in the works!

github.com/DankNeon/meta/pull/2

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Chris DeLuca

Perfect! Thanks.

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tiff

Can we get this ported over to prism.js? I'd like to use it on my blog. Thanks!

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Conlin Durbin

I'll look into it!

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Conlin Durbin

Hi! I got the prism branch set up and working! Here it is: github.com/DankNeon/prism

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tiff

THANKS!!!!

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putude

Sadly I currently use Atom.

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Martin Beierling-Mutz

I like it! Reminds me of Sarah Drasner's Night Owl theme, which is a good thing!

Gonna give it a try for the next weeks.