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       Base16 - architecture for building color themes for many apps
        
       Author : smartmic
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2021-12-09 07:46 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | eberkund wrote:
       | There's also: https://rainglow.io/
        
       | DiabloD3 wrote:
       | I used to use Base16 for years, and even wrote the Hexchat
       | conversion script for Base16. It just... I dunno, it isn't
       | exactly what I want. I want a centralized system that produces
       | everything from a single repo, not 9000 repos that all do
       | something slightly different.
        
       | boronine wrote:
       | Shameless plug: I used base16 to generate a million random color
       | themes: https://www.syntaxenvy.com/
        
         | ziggus wrote:
         | This is a cool project! One question: why just dark themes?
        
           | boronine wrote:
           | No real reason. I was hoping people would pass the link
           | around as something of a gag, but I didn't get much traffic
           | when I shared it, so it's in maintenance mode now.
        
       | llimllib wrote:
       | My favorite ones generated from this are the Base2Tone family of
       | themes: https://base2t.one/ (I'm partial to Space Dark)
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       | I added coverage for gnome terminal and mate-terminal (when I was
       | trying unsuccessfully to not hate linux UI) and it was super easy
       | to do. If you're interested in color schemes, base16 is a very
       | useful (if definitely hacky) framework for developing on.
        
         | unbanned wrote:
         | This looks nice. How on earth do people come across these?
        
           | jcelerier wrote:
           | https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
        
           | llimllib wrote:
           | good question! I have no idea how I came across it, nor how
           | one would do so reliably.
        
       | fho wrote:
       | Yesterday there was a post about the Dracula theme ... and I
       | guess I was not the only one who thought that there is probably a
       | project that could "translate" a colortheme to configurations for
       | many applications.
       | 
       | Is this it?
        
         | noahtallen wrote:
         | It's not as polished. The base16 aspect just comes up with the
         | color swath, but you rely on community contributions to port
         | that into different app themes. For example, the VS Code themes
         | look terrible. The way they choose colors for the UI just isn't
         | appealing. I think base16 has a standard, like "05 is used for
         | menus" but that doesn't translate very well.
         | 
         | I think it's good for syntax highlighting, but I had a lot of
         | difficulty translating it into UI themes in a way that I liked.
        
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