Should dev tool themes be light or dark?
I spend hours every day writing code and find that having a dark theme is a lot easier on the eye.
Using high contrast colours such as pink, green, yellow and blue I find it's much easier to skim read and get to what I'm after fast.
So much so, I wrote a dark theme for Chrome Dev Tools based on my favourite theme - Monokai.
/devthemez.com/themes/so-dark-monokai-v3 (no longer online)
Currently I'm working with Maurice making Chrome Dev Theming easier using LESS.
https://github.com/mauricecruz/zero-base-themes/blob/master/themes/s10wen-monokai.less
Also Firefox have done a great job on their dark theme:
Firefox > dev tools > settings cog > DevTools theme: Dark = Great job @firefox pic.twitter.com/qv7nw1DpA3
— Simon Owen (@s10wen) February 6, 2014
I'm interested to know what you preference is, light or dark?
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