 One of the most important pieces of having a beautiful desktop is having a beautiful color scheme I'm talking about the color scheme for your terminal emulators and your text editors today I want to share with you my top nine color schemes for your terminal emulators and your text editors So let me switch over to my desktop and for this example today I'm gonna open up a terminal emulator and a text editor and I'm just gonna open up the terminal and the text editor that I Use so for the terminal I typically use alacrity So I'm gonna open up my alacrity terminal and for my text editor I typically use do me max so I will open up do me max and I will just open up a document So you guys can see as the colors change and then the alacrity terminal I'm just gonna run an LS the first color scheme I want to talk about is actually my personal favorite It's the one I'm using these days and that is the doom one color scheme now doom one Is the default color scheme for doom emacs it was heavily inspired by the atom text editor Which has a dark theme called one dark the doom emacs guys just Reimplemented that as doom one. So that's the default theme and doom emacs I also took the doom one color scheme and implemented that in my alacrity terminal config that way that they've got the same color scheme And you can see it's really nice really a good contrast very easy on the eyes And it's just a beautiful color scheme and for me, you know my eyes my I've got old eyes, right? I'm in my mid 40s and sometimes color schemes that don't have a lot of contrasts. They're kind of tough for me They're kind of tough on my eyes, but this you know This actually is pretty good for me if I run a neofetch you can see more of the color scheme here do it LS If I open something in Vim, I'll open my bash RC You can see some of the colors here in as far as bash scripting here What those colors would look like matter of fact? I like doom one so much that I've actually implemented it in my xmo bar panel at the top right now I'm using xmo net as my window manager xmo bar as my panel And I've used the doom one colors in the widgets on my xmo bar and it just looks lovely in my opinion So doom one definitely my number one color scheme the next color scheme I want to talk about is a very popular color scheme called Dracula and Doom emacs has a Dracula built into it if you do space HT and doom emacs It will actually load all the themes that are available and you can see doom dash Dracula That is the Dracula color scheme and a Lackard II I also in my a Lackard II configs if you go to my get lab my dotfalls get lab repository and take a look at my A Lackard II config I have Dracula available in my config as one of the color schemes I can choose I've got about eight or nine different color schemes in my a Lackard II config and Dracula is one of them I also for purposes of this video I went ahead and themed my xmo bar for the Dracula colors too just so you can see more of the complete desktop Experience although it's not quite right because in this side with the widgets is the Dracula colors I did not adjust these here because these are actually part of the xmo nade config itself rather than the xmo bar config And I didn't want to adjust that for each time I changed the color scheme on this video So these colors not quite right, but that's a minor gripe overall I actually like Dracula too kind of like the doom one color scheme before it's very contrasty Right, it's good contrast very easy on the eyes The colors are more a pastel kind of colors and instead of more of a dark gray Or almost black background now it's more of a dark purple kind of background It's got you know some purplish and pinkish kind of hues to it and honestly It's a it's a different kind of look right and then it's not bad It's one of the reasons I think that the Dracula color scheme has become probably the most popular color scheme You see people using out there and the good thing about Dracula if you go to the Dracula website They've created themes for e-max and Vim and Adam and VS code and g-edit and pretty much every terminal emulator and text editor You can think of they have an official Dracula plug-in for that terminal or text editor So you can really theme out your entire desktop environment with Dracula if you choose Moving on to the next color scheme another very popular one that honestly is one that you know Originally when I first tried it years ago I thought it was the ugliest thing I've ever seen and then it kind of grew on me a little bit and then You know then I realized now it's really not that great and then I use it again It's I've got a love-hate relationship with this particular color scheme. This is gruff box dark now There is a light variant of gruff box It's not gonna be a part of this video because although I have a love-hate relationship with gruff box dark I actually just have a hate-hate relationship with gruff box light I typically don't like light color schemes anyway and gruff box light is is really bad in my opinion But gruff box dark many people love it many people are kind of mediocre lukewarm on it for me It's not too bad. It's not quite as Contrasty as doom one or Dracula, but it doesn't have such little contrast that it's painful to view I mean this is this is easy on my eyes. I mean I could use it One thing as far as just being an attractive color scheme I do think these earthy tones the fact that it's so brown You know this almost the poop color kind of color scheme I don't want to you know bring any toilet humor into this But you know this is a little different than the you know Standard black and gray and purplish themes that you saw in the previous color schemes this with all the brown for me This isn't the most attractive color scheme But of course we're talking about function as well And if you're in a terminal or a text editor all the time you spent hours a day in a text editor For example, you want something that's easy on your eyes and honestly gruff box dark for me I would be just fine working in it. So it definitely makes my top nine color schemes Next up is the awesome color scheme known as monikai pro monikai pro is another I guess I like a lot of the same kind of color schemes because it's very similar to something like doom one and Dracula as far as it's dark It has a lot of good contrast a lot of the colors a similar kind of pastel colors almost to you know Something like Dracula itself. It doesn't have quite as much purple going on with it But it's very easy to read. It's got good contrast very easy again on my old eyes If I run a neo fetch you can see that there if I do something in vim You see a lot of orange and purple at least here in shell scripting Of course that is not using monikai pro like any kind of official Vim color scheme that is just the terminal color scheme set to monikai pro and then me opening like a default Config of Vim and once again in the XMO bar I adjusted the widget colors to also be the monikai pro background and the monikai pro colors And honestly, I think that looks quite nice I could actually live happily ever after in monikai pro if doom one didn't exist I would certainly strongly consider this as my default color scheme Now moving on to something really quite different than any of the color schemes previously is Nord Nord actually comes in two different variants. There's traditional Nord Which is what you're looking at with this bluish grayish kind of theme There's also a Nord light, but again, I don't particularly care for light color scheme So Nord light is not going to be a part of this list But the standard Nord color scheme is actually quite nice I actually kind of like bluish silvery blue backgrounds bluish green backgrounds There's another popular color scheme that shares that similar kind of background later in the list that I quite like as well Nord the only problem with Nord and why I've never really used it long-term is for me Although I kind of like the blue colors as far as the background I don't really like the actual 16 colors of the color scheme themselves because there's just not enough contrast for Me in my eyes. You see I've adjusted the colors in the widgets here at the x-mobar panel at the top and some of these I mean I can read them. It's not like they're unreadable, but it doesn't have that same kind of pop You know that the other color schemes that we've reviewed so far Nord is definitely the one with the least amount of contrast so far on the list, but I will say it is attractive I just don't know for my old eyes how I would like using this long term And I mentioned I would be showing another bluish kind of color scheme This is oceanic next and I've actually used this color scheme in years past and this one unlike Nord does have some nice Contrast mainly because the background is actually quite a bit darker It's a really dark bluish kind of greenish background and the colors a little less of that light pastel More contrast you can see in the panel I adjusted the x-mobar colors again in the widgets and these really pop you can really the Small font here and the panel really stands out much more so with oceanic next than with Nord Now I do apologize for blinding you guys with a light theme But this is really the only light theme I would ever consider running This is solarized light Solarized comes in two different variants solarized dark and solarized light and they're really fantastic They're very readable themes. The only real difference between solarized light and solarized dark is the background the other 16 color color schemes you see the x-mobar panel here the widgets these colors These are the same in both light and dark variants The only thing is in solarized light you have this really light yellowish background and in solarized dark You have a dark bluish green background Now while I said I didn't hate solarized light I can say I absolutely love Solarized dark solarized dark is an old color scheme that's been around for a while and it's very popular It's typically built-in to pretty much every terminal emulator text editor any text editor especially You guys oftentimes on Linux distros that I do if I open up a text editor whatever the default text editor on that distribution might be and I Immediately don't like their color scheme typically. I'll go in their preferences and if solarized dark is available Oftentimes, that's the one I choose because it's just so comfy. I mean it is just so good good contrast It's just an attractive color scheme, too It's really unique right because it's got this almost blue green aqua marine kind of background But it's a dark background. It's definitely not light good colors You know some pastels of pinks blues purples Then just a good all-around color scheme and I have actually lived in solarized dark for a long term like a month set of time I've actually not since starting the YouTube channel, but years ago I used to theme everything with solarized dark at one point. I remember in my Tiling window manager themes and my open box themes. I was finding solarized dark GTK themes for the GUI Applications I use and I think the terminal my desktop environment. I found solarized dark Wallpapers so you can find pretty much anything to go with this particular color scheme And you know, it's not that popular as far as like when you go to screenshot Subreddits like a r slash Unix porn, you know You don't see a whole lot of solarized on that because people typically like those really black dark themes for that But when you're talking about just easy on the eyes solarized dark may be The best as far as you know for those of you looking for something that you work at a computer In the terminal in a text editor long term. It's probably the best one for that kind of work And the final color scheme that I want to talk about today is another one that I have used in years past that I found Very easy on the eyes good contrast and this color scheme is called tomorrow night And there are two different tomorrow color schemes. There's tomorrow night, which is the one typically most people are gonna use That's a dark theme. There's also tomorrow light and it's like most light themes I don't particularly care for for its particular light version But tomorrow night is actually quite easy on the eyes and once again good contrast This is much more of a traditional kind of dark theme It kind of has that gruff box kind of feel to it as far as it's got some brown tones to it But it's not so brown It doesn't have that poopy kind of feel to it that the gruff box dark theme has is more of a really really dark brown Just a hint of some brown tones in it and honestly tomorrow night would probably be a great color scheme this time of year especially if you have any kind of fall or autumn related wallpapers because just the earthy tones and with the Pinks and orange and yellows to it. It's got those fall colors to it And of course we're coming up on Thanksgiving here in the US as well It would really go a long way, you know, if you were theming your desktop for the holidays It's probably a great Selection for that. So there you have it my top nine color schemes for your terminal emulator and text editor And of course all of this is subjective. I know many of you guys are gonna disagree You're gonna say some of the color schemes I showed are absolute garbage and you're gonna say, you know I should have shown this other color scheme that you really like Hey share it in the comments below because other people are gonna be interested and Honestly, you may share some color schemes that I don't know about I might be interested as well now before I go I need to thank a few special people. 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