Rating 5 Most Popular Terminal Color Schemes

[@WolfgangsChannel]

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/

[@fallenchromium]

Hmm, 30p... Sound like a Mi Band resolution 😂

[@9001greg]

You mean 25fps?

[@x1x2x125]

Can you think of a reddish autumn colorscheme,instead of bluish nord?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

@@x1x2x125 Gruvbox is pretty close

[@x1x2x125]

Wolfgang's Channel Also since you might be the only one to know, do you know whether dotshare.it is dead or not?

[@DistroTube]

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

[@gogogogogogogogogogog9]

u like it but u dont use it why ?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Oh no! Not the Christmas card

[@burnzy3210]

can i get a christmas card? :)

[@rochr4]

@@gogogogogogogogogogog9 this mystery will be resolved in 'KZbin Linux content creators' holy scripts ver. 2.0 by O'Reily, stay on your toes.

[@spot1401]

"DT is only joking!" - "it seems he has already deleted the chronjob" - "oh no!!!11"

[@pabllosee]

Now make "top 5 fonts".

[@Newascap]

This. Please

[@elianiva]

great idea

[@ganpatistudies3339]

Top 5 *GOOGLE* fonts that is free fonts and available to all.

[@patrykgronkiewicz924]

Imo 1. JetBrains Mono 2. Fira Code 3. Iosevka 4. Monoid 5 Hack

[@nico1337]

@@patrykgronkiewicz924 Hack > Fira Mono > JetBrains Mono > Meslo > DejaVu Sans Mono

[@bennett5436]

just rename your channel to Wolf/g/ang already my dude

[@spot1401]

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!

[@ArcticIceStudio]

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.

[@gogogogogogogogogogog9]

nord is so cool

[@Zeadar]

Aww... where Molokai/Monokai at? :(

[@AlucardNoir]

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.

[@LimitedWard]

@@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

[@markhaus]

It definitely has some consistency and availability, but I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed using it enough to keep more than a single day

[@unaivan3284]

Monokai pro

[@quervo151]

Laughs in Vim master code race

[@LucasOe]

One Dark gang. Though sadly it's not supported everywhere

[@nico1337]

Yeah I can't find a color scheme for Kate for it so I just use Nord for it (my second favorite color scheme)

[@uiopuiop3472]

Works with VS Code and Firefox pretty well imo

[@erikl9146]

@@uiopuiop3472 you can use a color scheme on Firefox????

[@uiopuiop3472]

Yes, check addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/

[@ichaa3tech]

Its really cool

[@aimossy6466]

Nord gang

[@odinwaidbauer3321]

Hail to the nordic masterrace :3

[@lubeckable]

Ioik

[@markusTegelane]

You know it's a serious colour scheme when they have a paid option.

[@Ashok-wc9be]

Nice vid. Monokai color scheme (the default one in Sublime Text) is a personal favourite. Hope you'll give it a chance on your second part (if any).

[@ZachValkyrie]

Solarized-Dark is the only reason I was able to complete my first novel. #Solarized4Life

[@AtomToast]

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.

[@FoWDarthLi]

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.

[@markhaus]

Light themes never get enough love, I personally prefer "PaperColor" when I need to work in a bright environment and still have good contrast

[@theena]

Was a nord guy until I switched to Gruvbox. Now everything is gruvbox, KDE global theme onwards.

[@ahmadalwazzan384]

Solarized is the most comfortable to my eyes. When you are working 9+ hours a day your eyes will care more about comfort than aesthetics.

[@dotmavriq]

GRUVBOX GANG

[@ndrechtseiter]

Третья радиарторская улица 🤔🤔🤔 Хороший нейминг был у улиц в Союзе ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@KingZero69]

solarized is a trash color scheme: 0 / 10

[@peyton_uwu]

oou look at these cool colo-IS THAT FUCKING SOLARIZED?!?!??!?!?!?!?@?!?~@/`//123//`2/`/]42.3;45q3wu08465tu93oae4r

[@nicholascureton933]

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.

[@michaelvilain8457]

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.

[@radiozradioz2419]

I really like your inclusion of the "lore" factor for the color schemes, very interesting :)

[@dmitrynikolaev5743]

Will you review coding fonts? Hack is my favorite.

[@green4ao]

OneDark not working properly in transparent mode, Dracula support for transparent is way better.

[@fallenchromium]

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!

[@user-rg1jp2us4o]

Thank you so much for showing me Nord, It's my new favourite.

[@battmarn]

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?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

More contrast = more eye fatigue

[@LPFan33]

some people have dark grey souls, others have pure black

[@derzw3rg]

I am one of "those" solarized guys. I really like it.

[@dealloc]

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).

[@TheLazyJAK]

OG Monokai classic that sublime text used to ship with as default is amazing!

[@crowlick4189]

13:06 хорошая пикча)

[@georgewest7068]

Как ты тут оказался

[@sparsetable]

Solarized light gang 🤙

[@ShawnThuris]

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.

[@AlucardNoir]

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.

[@ShawnThuris]

@@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.

[@grungee]

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

[@DaniloJr]

Hey, Wolfgang. Just a little mistake. His name is ZeNo, not ZeRo. Btw, thanks for this video.

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Oh snap, my bad :( Glad you liked it!

[@marioschroers7318]

Dracula ❤️ Close next is Nord, also Solarized Dark is pretty neat 😊

[@flmalegre]

Aurora Borealis? At this time of night? In this operating system and localized entirely within your terminal?

[@Jaymoon8503]

May I see it?

[@Pumpkin-Link]

I was looking for this comment, thank you.

[@flmalegre]

@@Jaymoon8503 "... Nord."

[@techtutorials8812]

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.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

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.

[@Yoni123]

how to install, this didnt work import: import: /home/joni/Downloads/alacritty-master/dracula.yml Command 'import:' not found, did you mean: command 'import' from deb graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat (1.4+really1.3.35+hg16297-1) command 'import' from deb imagemagick-6.q16 (8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu13.1) command 'import' from deb imagemagick-6.q16hdri (8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu13.1) Try: sudo apt install

[@do0nv]

One Dark is personally my favorite. I'm surprised you didn't cover it.

[@Slate245Ivanovo]

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!)

[@WolfgangsChannel]

Thanks!

[@h0ph1p13]

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!

[@cesrrr01]

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.

[@johannessonn6141]

What is this fancy markdown server preview thingy?

[@WolfgangsChannel]

It's not my screenshot, but probably livedown. Or this github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim

[@FinaISpartan]

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.

[@WolfgangsChannel]

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

[@c4llv07e]

Why does every color theme look like they hate color blind people? Seriously, I've looked at a lot of color themes and a lot of them look too dull. No, I'm certainly not asking for something like linux-terminal16, but I also want more brightness.

[@aleksvolkov92]

New intro better but i like when there is no intro.

[@titarch]

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.

[@linkert810]

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.

[@Seacle14]

The concept of color scheme "compatibility" or "availability" is so weird. And why does it need to be maintained? It's a set of colors. Just type them into your config file

[@3Diego]

I'm not sure if we can call Arc-Dark a color scheme since it's a gtk theme but I use it's colors in my terminal and pretty much anywhere else

[@epicinator2372]

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.

[@user-rg1jp2us4o]

Yes, The chosen one, This is what I was waiting for.

[@classicrockonly]

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

[@timescam]

monokai gang

[@max_ishere]

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.

[@rockdie9522]

Nord+Nordic-Dark+Newaita icons. Boom

[@peppi0304]

Help?! How to change color of #This comment should be brighther than it is in default monokai? Pycharm under Win10

[@zodjenkins2595]

if you can could you upload a video about how you manage your audio through linux, if you use dsp corrections. I find this very hard to grasp.

[@nachsterhalt3430]

I really like this Gruvbox-Fork although it is only available for vim and is horrible to port, but it works quite well along actual gruvbox

[@doom-and-gloom]

you've used too many russian words, expect russians invasion

[@pierreperegrindemaricourt8379]

It already began, you just don't see it.

[@nihilistic7840]

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.

[@ivanpartida7467]

My personal favorite is Tempus Future, from the Tempus Themes family by Protesilaos Stavrou

[@hyd6922]

If you hate Nord I just can't understand you Its so god damn pleasing But I don't know maybe its just that im Canadian

[@SinanAkkoyun]

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 KZbin, durch dich bin ich auf fancy Linux gekommen, weiter, als KDE Plasma Terminal Blur, lol

[@Armadurapersonal]

Notification gang

[@Saul_Soto82]

I love monokai

[@RnVjayBZb3V0dWJl]

Remember to drink some water. A bit annoying to hear the dry mouth talk :P Love the videos! Learning a lot! Just subbed!

[@WolfgangsChannel]

This! Started eating a sour apple every time I film and it helped

[@LarixusSnydes]

What I don't like about Nord is the low contrast for comments in code. Those can be important to read...

[@Jombo1]

I use monokai for everything

[@undiabler]

Twilight is also good color scheme, more like "warmer" version of Nord. Use in vim/sublime/terminals for 4+ years. Ideal for night sessions.

[@k.ommander]

If you did a **sigh** at the beginning of the video it looks like you did a KZbin generic apology video

[@Pumpkin-Link]

I like the whole research put on Solarized but the 16-color terminal palette is illogical, most of the 8 bright variant colors make no sense. Bright red, bright green, bright yellow etc, are just variations of gray/teal. Which makes no sense as most CLI apps, including my Git prompt, use red to indicate danger/dirty/deletion, green for success/addition, yellow is warning, blue is info, etc The VSCode theme is good, but the default Dark+ has more differentiations. Variables and functions in Solarized are the exact same color for instance, while in Dark+ they're blue and yellow respectivelly. (Edit: the extension called "Braver's Solarized" seems to solve this)

[@vme138]

I somehow end using or dracula or just pick the closest to black and green console theme...

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

I hate all of these themes. Really awful colors and contrasts. Nord is the nicest on your list and I've almost liked it myself in the past, but all colors are shades of ice-blue, so no, it's awful for readability. **The only theme I've ever liked enough to use it is Monokai Pro. Excellent contrast and logical syntax highlighting (in VSCode), and I use it in terminal too.**

[@piym]

Please, make video about your monitor arm. Sorry, I am from Russia and very bad speak in English :)

[@WolfgangsChannel]

It's just a cheap monitor arm from eBay

[@piym]

@@WolfgangsChannel Thanks :)

[@nahguacm]

Call me an abomination if you want but Solarized Light is my favorite color scheme

[@michaelenelmar]

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.

[@KnjazNazrath]

p sure Sunless Sea uses Solarised. Just addint to the Chthonic lore.

[@sujeewa8067]

I subscribed when I saw 'lore' I like that kind of stuff. A LOT!

[@R3DMSR]

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.

[@RyszardRudy]

Earthsong is the best. But light version needs adjustments.

[@subarutendou]

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.

[@MisjudgedTwat]

For me, the best color scheme always has been Zenburn, and probably always will be! (even though it's not that popular)

[@MECHANISMUS]

The ought to be nord aurora illustration looks in fact more like solorized than anything.

[@xeriab]

Ayu user here, but I also like Nord :)

[@youp1tralala]

I dislike them all, although Nord is OKish. Used for code they are either too much pastel, too low contrast or go overboard with different colours. And after using dark themes since forever in my IDE, I have reverted to a light theme and... unlike what I thought my eyes say thanks for it. Eye opening. Dark everything was 2019 motto and way overrated.

[@IllevensKO]

ant.my whole house in gruvbox colors and.my computer to be inside a commandore 64 body

[@myfavouritecolorisgreen]

my favs: gotham : github.com/whatyouhide/vim-gotham availability and functionality may not be consistent. i got amazing experience in vim, not so much in emacs(base16 gotham). icy : github.com/belak/base16-emacs/blob/master/build/base16-icy-theme.el works for emacs with a feeling as if you are walking through an ice cave (not the best theme for syntax highlighting, but my recent fav)

[@jeis93]

Monokai should be in the next video for sure 👌

[@AlucardNoir]

I actually hate Solarized because all that scientific precision makes the colours pop in a way that tires my eyes. I also dislike Dracula for the same reason, it becomes painful to look at if I am in front of the screen for more then a few minutes. when it comes to non in-terminal text editors, I tend to stick with the default themes, be it VSCode, Sublime or even Atom. I tend to find that the developers have already taken into account theming... as for terminals, well, I tend to stick with my distro's default theme- solus - after all, that's why I've been on the same distro for over a year now, sane human defaults.

[@Oggy-WanKenobi]

You should check Rose-Pine too! My current favorite

[@heyjoeway]

>no mention of monokai i trusted you

[@beautifulcarpetdiagram]

I prefer white background and yellow text

[@nibblrrr7124]

Correct Opinions from the Ministry of Æsthetics 💜

[@maxarendorff6521]

I pretty much dislike all the famous color schemes. The only one that I can stand using as of right now is tomorrow-night, made by the same guy that made base16. I only have to make the background color a touch lighter and I'm good to go. It's very neutral. Not too much blue like Nord or too much brown like Gruvbox. It also doesn't have too much contrast, which I hate.

[@oscwavcommentaccount]

I think I'm gonna use Nord.

[@manfromwuhan714]

Am I the only person who only knows the colour schemes from keycap sets

[@Agihi]

I like Monokai and Material Dark Ocean

[@rolfingbomb]

Solarized light or gtfo.