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It's a nice little color scheme, but why in the world does this simple thing have that boilerplate corporate conversion-optimized landing page that every startup and their brother is using? I expected the page to try and sell me yet another disruptive cringy SaaS at the end, but no - it's literally just talking about a color scheme for my terminal.

And I just noticed there's a "community" page. What? A community centered around a color scheme for my computer? I get to wax poetic to others about those cool blue frost tones we're using?

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Reminds me of the business card scene in American Psycho:

"Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark."

The Silian Rail font is up for download. You can use it in your projects to subtly detect people of taste and distinction among your peers.

https://bigbrandboys.com/downloads/silian-rail.zip

This looks like the actual article for that download: https://bigbrandboys.com/luxury/silian-rail-font-american-ps.... It's one of those half-written clickbait-style artcles that repetitively mashes together easily googleable crap and leaves its main claims unsupported, specifically:

> Today we’re glad to tell you that you can download the actual real Silian Rail font on this page.

> Download Silian Rail font

> On this page you can download the Silian Rail font for free. It’s the actual Silian Rail TTF file, and it can be imported to your computer, Photoshop, or used on your website. Click the button below to start your download.

Why should I believe this is the "actual real Silian Rail font"? It seems far more likely that it's a knock-off lookalike, probably of dubious quality. If it is the "actual real" font, I'm almost certain it's a pirate download (which I'm fine with, but it's the kind of thing I'd like to know).

I think the undisputed masterpiece is this comment, a premise so catchy, most people probably don't read the words. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of contrarianism, and the importance of superiority, it's also a personal statement about the commenter themself.

> It seems far more likely that it's a knock-off lookalike, probably of dubious quality.

FWIW the font is Garamond Classico, Small Caps, Regular

Let's see Paul Allen's color palette.

Bone, Egg Shell, Pale Nimbus, Ivory

Honestly this sounds like a good way of learning how to share and market your side project:

1. build something super simple(e.g. a colour scheme, mini-app, toy*) so you're less tempted to yak-shave, and then

2. use most of your energy on getting the thing out (marketing, community, ads, etc...)

* proper colour scheme creation is far from trivial, I know

I feel like this recipe exists a lot about the current state of the internet. As in its terrible current state.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Care to elaborate?

Too much half-assed, needless shit being heavily marketed.

I use nord. Honestly, the community is really centered around it's implementations. Nord makes it SO easy to use their theme almost everywhere. Use Vim? They got you. Emacs? Got you? $EDITOR? Got you. Gnome/XFCE/iterm2/etc - yep got you there too.

Honestly, not only is the color scheme excellent (speaking as someone who stares at a computer 18 hours a day) it's so easy to use compared to others it's hard to pass up. Even zenburn and solarized are frustrating to use because of subtle differences between implementations of the palette.

vim? emacs? where are those. Didn't find them.

Both Vim [1] and Emacs[2] are on the ports page [0]. In Emacs it's as easy to install as `package-install nord-theme` and then `load-theme nord`. I will note that I tried it out in Emacs running in Windows Terminal and it looks terrible, completely different from the demo and almost unusable - I quickly went back to one of the default themes, tango-dark. This is probably only going to work in the GUI version.

[0] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

[1] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim

[2] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/emacs

Ah, thanks. I didn't find them because, the "Ports" link at the bottom of the page doesn't actually link to the "Ports" section at the top!

Why not provide the same thing and make the colors variable, tho?

Reminds me of this: https://draculatheme.com/

It has a community, a blog, a (dead) Youtube channel, a merch shop, and a "Pro" version which apparently has brought in ~$264k.

>"Before Dracula PRO my life was meaningless, colorless and sad. Now it is vibrant, electric and full of the best code I've ever written."

100% agree /s

I guess you are not familiar with https://reddit.com/r/unixporn ?

Tangentially related and relies on the person asking the question to already know the answer, but to remind themself given your context.

I'm really having trouble to parse your sentence. Care to edit it?

When one approaches perfection, best not.

It feels like you a word.

This has to be the most word soup comment I've read in a while.

Unixporn is a community centered on fancy-ing up Linux systems in general (mostly, I guess BSD shows up occasionally). It seems like the type of topic that could support a whole community. A single colorscheme is a bit more specific, so it is surprising to me (at least) that it can support a whole community (but hey, not judging, if people want to join more power to them).

Right, but then you have the people that want to make all their applications according to one specific color theme, then you have the ones that make wallpapers according to the theme, even PC builders who want to have their desktops following the palette...

Anything nowadays is a community.

At least Nord has a community. The Dracula community is dead.

I can't see the sense in a community for a small color palette. Are there mods? Power-grabbing drama? Maybe even a subreddit coup?

Undead?

Funny you brought this up. I was literally scouring the site to see if it was backed by VCs somehow. These days that wouldn't even surprise me.

Maybe that's just what well-thought-out landing pages look like?

I think this landing page design has been made popular by Bootstrap.

First I thought they'd sell "Nord VPN".

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