color-scheme

What color scheme do you use for programming?

I get a lot of attention at work because I am the only one who bothered to change the default color settings in Visual Studio. I just modified them myself. I can provide the settings file if anyone cares to import it. Here's an example of how it looks. It reminds me of DOS/BASIC programming before I actually knew how to program. I al...

Visual Studio color theme

What Visual Studio color theme do you use? Or just the default? Also see: What color scheme do you use for programming? ...

Web 2.0 Color Combinations

What are the most user-friendly color combinations for Web 2.0 websites, such as background, button colors, etc.? ...

How do I install a color theme for IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.x

I prefer dark backgrounds for coding, and I've downloaded a jar file containing an IntelliJ IDEA color theme that has a dark background. How do I tell IntelliJ about it? ...

Color Themes for Eclipse?

I am a recovering Emacs user, who is trying to ease into Eclipse usage. (Since I'm encouraging the rest of the team to use it, I guess I should at least try to get along). My current excuse is that it hurts my eyes. I'm currently using the excellent zenburn theme in emacs, and would love to find it for eclipse. However, I find that chan...

Dark color scheme for Eclipse?

Is Eclipse at all themeable? I would like to install a dark color scheme for it, since I much prefer white text on dark background than the other way around. Edit: so apparently there is NO easy way to do it. Shame, I really prefer Eclipse to NetBeans, but I cannot stand the white background (and NetBeans does support themes). ...

Which Visual Studio Color Theme?

Which Visual Studio Color Theme do you use? Do you find that the darker themes work best for you? Do they help ease your eye strain? What is your favorite color theme & where can I get it? ...

Java ColorSpace Support

I need to take a BufferedImage and convert it to YCbCr format so that I can do a more efficient Brightness/contrast manipulation on it, but I can't figure out how to do this. I've tried ColorConvertOp but there doesn't seem to be an appropriate ColorSpace for YCbCr (though there is a type for it?). I could do the conversion manually ...

Best CSS color wheel sites

What site(s) do you recommend for looking at complimentary colors for site design? It would also be beneficial to enter a hex or RGB value and have the color wheel spit back complimentary colors. Most popular: Kuler Others in alphabetical order: 4096 Color Wheel Allprofitallfree - color-wheel2 Color Wheel v1.2 Javascript color sch...

How do you change the colors of the text when doing a Schema Compare in Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition?

I am trying to find out how to modify the Colors / Fonts used in the Schema Compare "Object Definitions" window that appears after a comparison is done between two databases. The color scheme I have is unreadable, but I cannot seem to find the right settings in the Tools/Options/Environment/Fonts and Colors dialog. Thanks for any help....

Determining your websites color scheme

One of the biggest issues I have, from a UI standpoint, when building a new website is figuring out what colors I will use and of those colors, do they actually work well together. I found this site that has really helped me out and I figured I would share it with all of you and also get some responses back about either sites similar o...

Changing Resharper's color scheme

Does anyone know how to change the ReSharper color scheme in VS2008 SP1 ? I've looked around and all the posts out there one the internet pointed to dead-ends. JeBrains at one point told users to change the colors inside VS (Tools|Options|Fonts and Colors|Text Editor) but I don't see any Resharper items in there. Thanks. ...

How to automatically generate N "distinct" colors?

I wrote the two methods below to automatically select N distinct colors. It works by defining a piecewise linear function on the RGB cube. The benefit of this is you can also get a progressive scale if that's what you want, but when N gets large the colors can start to look similar. I can also imagine evenly subdividing the RGB cube into...

Best Practices: IDE Code Color Scheme and Font

I was reading http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/01/27/asp-net-mvc-1-0-release-candidate-now-available.aspx and noticed a Fantastic color scheme used to illustrate their code in Visual Studio. The white background is starting to hurt my eyes after long periods, but the black I find is also to abrasive. Does anyone have a expor...

CSS - Separation of Color and Position

I'm just wondering what others do in this respect: Do you try to keep positional CSS (layout) separate from color/flavor CSS (color, background-color, background-images, font-size and family) ? Use two stylesheets? Combine two stylesheets server-side? Abstraction layer for the CSS? or you don't even try? I know sometimes after workin...

Eclipse - editor colors - a healthy configuration

Hi! I use Eclipse for Java, Python, C(++) and so on. I'm accustomed to Vim and the dark color schemes. The default white background just hurts my eyes. And that's a real problem. It doesn't seem Eclipse supports any schemes? I tried a Plugin but it doesn't seem to work for MacOS and Eclipse 3.3.2. Is there any better option for some ...

What is your favorite colorscheme FOR PROGRAMMING in Vim?

I think this is a relevant question for programmers and I'd like to hear other people's answers because some syntax highlighting color schemes are better on the eyes than others. This can affect productivity as much as ergonomic keyboards or anything else on here. It's about comfort and productivity. So, I'm curious. Do you find some ...

Eclipse color themes - java and flex

I use Eclipse for both Java and Flex development. Recently, I changed its color scheme to make java code look nicer. But that messed up the flex color scheme somehow. Is it possible to have my new color scheme for java and default color scheme for flex code? Or, how can i edit the color scheme for flex code as well? ...

Is there a way to see the color that will display for a .NET color name?

I'm using System.Drawing.Color, is there anything in Visual Studio that can display the color for the name? For example if I used Color.Cornsilk what would color would be displayed? ...

What's so special about the greenish-blue color? Why is it so popular in web design?

I've noticed that this color is somehow preferred over pure blue or blue-violet. Vista and Windows 2008 have largely adopted this color. Many dating sites seem to prefer this one over blue or violet. Is it so that this color is associated with ocean water color and provides some kind of relaxation to the site visitors or is it something ...