Friday, September 19, 2014

Save Your Eyes - Intellij IDEA Dark Theme.

No more tired eyes - use Dark Theme!

Why Dark Background is better?

Take a look on following eye diagram:


The color that invokes the less amount of your eye's cones (means that your eye will be less tired because of lack of work:) ) is the middle of color specter #5B5B5B (grey color).

It means that ideally the average color of  your screen should be grey color.
So if u are using the dark background (dark doesn't mean black) your average screen color much more closer to the middle of color specter than it's during the using of the white one.


Step up and u'll never come back

The most of developers accustomed to using white themes cause such ones are definitely were included into editor since early beginning.
However Intellij IDEA includes fully Dark UI theme called "Darkula" by default 
since version 12.0

U're able to see and to download a little bit customized & more convenient 
version of it below:

FYI: Classes and Interfaces color was changed to be able to separate them from each other and from plain texts. These colors are complimentary and quite comfortable for your eye (thx Color Studio Tool), so they won't be annoying among the default IDEA colors.

It takes few days to get used to dark theme but afterwards u'll feel how uncomfortable were light themes for your eyes and how those burn and ash your iris.

BloomLab_DarkulaColorThemeCover

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