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Why would I pay for a theme that has been free for over 5 years now? Bundling your free and open source tools and selling them seem like the most crooked way of building a business. I just don't get the point at all.

> Got laptop stolen, had to reconfigure everything. VSCode settings sync anyone? or pushing your .vimrc to a git repository? If you're a developer, you definitively know about a hundred different ways of backing up your settings.

> License for 3 computers Just WHAT? Is this an April fools?

Don't get me wrong, I love the theme and been using it for years but that's not the proper way of asking for financial support. I'd pay for a Patreon, or any kind of other financial support instead, before buying this kind of unreasonably expensive package.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for payment for a product you make.

Things cost money. If it’s too expensive for your taste, make your own theme or choose one of the many other free open source themes.

I personal will not be buying this theme, but I see why he does sell something he created.

How it's different from Sublime. Sublime by default free to use, however it has Dev channel where you need to pay to use it.

Everyone who has creativity, can sell their products on their own wish. Love it, buy it. Not interested, ignore it. But this sort of criticism is not expected!

>Everyone who has creativity, can sell their products on their own wish.

Agreed. But HN isn't really the place to promote your for-pay products.

> I carefully selected 4 monospaced programming fonts that fit perfectly with Dracula PRO.

What does that mean? Is he just bundling some free fonts, or did he actually license some commercial fonts?

Rather fishy that it’s so vague on details.

Creator on the sales of this: "From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project

A thread... https://t.co/8Sb9ZprsQT"

As someone who studied typography and who knows color by heart from both the scientific as well as the artistic side I can't believe people fall for the mumbo jumbo written on this page.

Nice color theme, but $49 for three computers seems a bit high when comparing to what's available in the market.

That's the "intro price", the regular price is $79! I don't fault the dev for trying to make money on this, but I don't see this making much money, especially for editors like Vim.

And what's to stop someone from knocking this off? Can you copyright a color theme?

You'd be surpised, he's made $20k so far: https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1249348452095373312 I think there was a HN thread about it already

When your color scheme costs as much as Sublime Text...maybe you should lay off whatever you're smoking.

it's insane when it cost more than a complete IDE (eg: Webstorm is $59 a year)

If you like his themes, fine, but there are plenty high quality OSS themes out there. My favourite being Nord (no affiliation). https://www.nordtheme.com

If you use Intelli-J IDE's you should check out https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui "Dracula Pro" looks a lot like this with a different font (which is also an option in Material Theme)

"Hand-picked Typography"

lol

As opposed to, ya know, computer-picked typography? what is this?

No mention on what's picked also. That's a shame.

99% certain it's Fira Code, Ubuntu Mono, IBM Plex and Hasklig.

If I manage to get the actual color hex codes, can I create themes based on them? No copyright involving colors, correct?

Do I need to buy this just to find out which fonts they're recommending?

Fira Code appears to be one of them, at least that is used on the website. A handcrafted recommendation of mine would be to try Iosevka (https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ ) or Input (https://input.fontbureau.com/ ). I really like the narrow-width fonts, lets you fit more code on screen.

They're the ones I'm already using. I want to know what I'm missing out on! I've never seen Input though, so thanks for that.

He cited color theory. Isn't color theory made up of an arbitrary choice of three colors? Additionally the color spectrum is one dimensional because it's really just frequency of light.

Geometric symmetry on an arbitrary mapping of the actual one dimensional concept of color to a two dimensional plane doesn't really "improve" anything. If you like it, you like it because of your opinion, please don't cite any pseudo science to make your case.

If you use Intelli-J IDE's you should check out https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui

"Dracula Pro" looks a lot like this with a different font (which is also an option in Material Theme)

oops, didn't mean to post as a reply

It's slightly more than just frequency. Magenta colours don't show up in the spectrum for instance.

But yeah it's basically just hue, saturation and brightness. And your choice of colourspace is more or less arbitrary although there's been quite a bit of research on what colours humans consider to be 'close' or 'equally bright' and even which combinations are 'pleasing' but that last one is hard to make precise.

"Color theory" can describe pretty much anything working with color. I asked the developer of Dracula some technical questions last time this got traction on HN but didn't receive any responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306449

My guess is that instead of spacing things out equally by RGB , (e.g. [0,0,0]...[128,128,128]...[255,255,255]) they may be using another "colorspace" like HCL or Lab, where there are still three values that signify each color, but the vectors are complex instead of just "Red", "Green", and "Blue". See http://hclwizard.org:64230/hclwizard/

the colour spectrum is not one dimensional because it is determined both by the frequency of light and by the response of each of the different cones in our eyes to it. I have no opinion on the claims made by the article either way, I just wanted to point out that just because the frequency of light had a single dimension, it did not follow that there was a single colour axis.

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