What color scheme do you use for programming?

Answer 1

I use the Spooky one I think it is from Rob Connery, nice and dark.

Themes Gallery post on hanselman

Answer 2

Background: White

Text: Black

Tags/Functions: Blue

Attributes: Navy

Comments: Dark Green

Strings: Different Shade of Dark Green

Answer 3

Can't go past John Lams Vibrant ink Theme myself - I like the Borland Vibrant theme on the Hanselman link too.

Last place I contracted at were all using the standard Vs theme, and by the time I left they all were using the Vibrant Ink theme or something similar.

Answer 4

Vibrant Ink is a very nice color scheme. I spend most of my time these days in Notepad++ and the Ruby Blue Port was the only one I can find. It's a good thing I'm quite fond of it. There is a similar Visual Studio Port.

Answer 5

I took mine from Jeff's Blog posting:

Answer 6

Straight up GNU Emacs:

(if (or (eq window-system 'w32) (eq window-system 'x) )
    ( progn (global-font-lock-mode t)         ; colorize all files
            (set-background-color  "black")
            (set-foreground-color  "green")
            (set-cursor-color      "green")
            (set-face-foreground 'modeline "black")
            (set-face-background 'modeline "grey")
            (set-face-foreground 'region   "snow")
            (set-face-background 'region   "black")
            (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-comment-face "salmon")
            (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-function-name-face "skyblue1")
            (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-variable-name-face "gold3")
            (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-type-face "green3")
            (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-keyword-face "cyan")
            (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-constant-face "LightSlateBlue")
            (set-face-background 'fringe "grey20")

            (set-frame-width (selected-frame) 110)
            (set-frame-height (selected-frame) 55)
            ) )

Answer 7

Background: gray background Text: light gray Comments and JavaDoc: light green Attributes: purple Keywords: light blue

RANT This is one of the down falls of Eclipse, in how hard it is to keep color scheme's between versions. There is about 7 places to make changes and you still don't get them all. END RANT

Answer 8

zenburn (VS settings file) - easy on the eyes.

Answer 9

I have written a theme generator for Visual Studio themes. It's really simple (you input 3 colors -- it shoots out theme based on the contrasting values). Maybe it will be useful to some pepole... http://www.frickinsweet.com/tools

Answer 10

The black & white one.

Answer 11

Yellow on black provides the best contrast. I always change my command shells to look like that.

Answer 12

Something an old developer told me after I asked him about his dark color scheme -
"You have a high energy electron gun pointed at your head. how energetic do you want these electrons to be?"

ofcouse, that was back in the CRT age.

Answer 13

Zenburn(Emacs version) or Arjen depending of the lighting in the room where I'm working. Zenburn feels easier for eyes when it's dark, but Arjen is better when you are using glossy screen on a sunny day.

Answer 14

modified SciTE - nothing fancy but it aint easy finding an editor that makes CF look good.

Answer 15

I'm going to buck the trend, I have been programming for a very long time and I turn off most syntax coloring. I do black text on a white background, except dark blue for comments and dark green for string constants, that's it.

Answer 16

I use Moria Alternate but I've replaced the default Deja Vu Sans Mono with Consolas

Answer 17

I use Oren Ellenbogen's Dark Scheme but slightly tweaked so that the fonts are a little smaller and some of the colours are a little more obvious

Answer 18

black on black

Answer 19

I created a script which each time it is called creates a gnometerm with a different colored background using gnometerm's profiles. It cycles through a series of profiles each of which has a foreground text color of black, and a background color that's some pale blue, green, orange, red, yellow, etc. It tie this script to an icon on the panel.

The effect is more or less like black on white, in that the coloration is subtle enough that it doesn't draw attention to itself, but enough so that your mind knows "the yellow one is for compiling", the "blue one is vi editing my program, and the green one is a vi editing a header file." etc.

Answer 20

I have used a similar program, but I'm finding myself drawn towards a scheme where a parchement-y color is the background more.

Although I can't seem to find one for notepad++.

I'm pretty sure there's a famous scheme with that approach, but I can't remember it.

Answer 21

I used Borland Pascal a lot when I was young, so I seem to add a bit of blue to the dark schemes every time. But only a slight tint.

Answer 22

I use a colour scheme based on StackOverflow:

Can be downloaded here: http://www.paulstovell.com/paulstovell-color-scheme

Answer 23

I made my own Scheme

you can download it here for Notepad++ , Komodo & Aptana

Answer 24

Lets check ZENBURN color scheme for visual studio.net. Refer below mentioned url.

http://writebypen.blogspot.com/2010/01/color-scheme-for-visual-studio-zenburn.html

This color scheme is used to work with low light condition.

Answer 25

I recently wrote an article about designing a theme for VS2010:

http://www.hackification.com/2010/05/16/designing-a-vs2010-color-scheme-consistency-consistency-consistency/

I've tried to put a bit of thought into it - rather than the usual "pick random colors that sort of match".

Answer 26

I usually use the default Intellij theme (white background, black text), but in the past I have used and enjoyed a slightly modified Dark Pastels, and Angry Fruit Salad.

Dark Pastels:

Answer 27

I actually love standard Eclipse theme.

Answer 28

There's now a site which is collecting Visual Studio themes from enthusiasts like us:

http://studiostyles.info/

Looks like there's a lot of good stuff there already.

Answer 29

I'm using this one, I think.

Answer 30

I use the default Visual Studio theme, but I have two plugins that add more colour: Codekana (brackets and control statements) and Visual Assist (types, variables, macros, and methods).

I spend more time in GVim, and I like the desert colorscheme. I recently started developing my own variant on desert called sandydune that adds more colouring.

Answer 31

I use this one in Emacs.

Built with this

Answer 32

Cobalt for the win. Before Cobalt I would get quite bad eyestrain, with it things are very easy and cruisy. I find the blue quite relaxing too, never hurts my eyes.

The theme is available for Aptana (Eclipse), Textmate and Espresso. Pity it isn't there for Coda :-(