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I love that light gray text on a light gray background. Can't get enough of it. Super readable.

Yes, I realize there's other themes, but they're terrible too. I find light text on a dark background fine for code, but terrible for writing prose.

For a good Markdown editor, I recommend Mou. It's been my choice for a while now. http://mouapp.com

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I dropped Mou in favour of LightPaper http://clockworkengine.com/lightpaper-mac which has more features (tabs, edit or preview panels hiding), better themes and customisation imho.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

I personally like MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com/, windows only), but for some non-basic features (GitHub Flavored Markdown, PDF export) you have to buy it for $15.

Mou is a great app, it also has a GitHub style live preview which is very nice, but it can be very slow on large Markdown files. I also had some problems with the syntax highlighter on lists.

>I love that light gray text on a light gray background. Can't get enough of it. Super readable.

Well, it is to me. I can't stand too much contrast, it hurts my eyes.

Seconded, Mou is great.

Is anyone able to get the Dark theme to work? I just installed it by Package Control and it only wants to give me light or yellow backgrounds.

Nope. No other color scheme seems to be working for me. I'm on linux; Crunchbang.

Got it working on ST 2 on Windows.

Ensure that you're editing the right flavor file, and restart ST for good measure.

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