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baby
it's really beautiful and for ONCE it actually works when I install it!

I just tried the Markdown theme as well and I had to remove this line for it to work: "wrap_width": 80

beautiful as well! Good job!

You should note that changing Sublime's icon is not doable (at least easily) in Windows.

Ryel
Really, really great. Thanks for sharing!

Also thanks for extensive documentation.

Raphmedia
I have been using it for a while now. Nothing wrong with it, I like it very much and have yet to find a better alternative.
Navarr
Reminds me a lot of IDEA's Darkula - the only theme I can stomach these days.
manuelflara
After installing it, only the colors on the code editor change. How do I get the tabs and file list panel to look like in those screenshots? It looks like a standard OSX control in mine.
mathieuh
{ "theme": "Afterglow-<variant>.sublime-theme", "color_scheme": "Packages/Theme - Afterglow/Afterglow.tmTheme" }

stick that in your user pref file

colinramsay
Did you restart Sublime?
manuelflara
It did require both what mathieuh said, and restarting. Thanks!
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Inversechi
Have you tried reloading the editor? Worked for me on Windows.
JustinAiken
Does this have colored gitgutter icons?
bigdubs
gitgutter works in the editor window, not so much in the sidebar.
jbrooksuk
Colours are decided by the scheme though I believe.
theVirginian
Late to the party, I've been using this for months.
strictnein
Should have posted it months ago then?
CmonDev
It's not an #indieband discovery thread.
octatoan
Vim version please?
darcyparker
I second that. I'd like to give it a try in vim and see if I still like it after a day of use.
atmosx
Me too. I'm currently using 'jellybeans' as my default and I love it but I'd give a try to this one.
StavrosK
Hmm, I wonder if there's a site/utility where you input a theme and it converts it to everything else.
mrinterweb
Unfortunately, I don't believe that an afterglow theme for vim exists yet, but if you want to try some different themes out, I'd recommend https://github.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes. My favorites are solarized, flatland, and codeschool. Solarized is likely the most advanced/complete vim colorscheme by looking at the solarized.vim.
coreymgilmore
Great theme, I do enjoy it. A few suggestion:

- make the bad bar thinner: it takes up a good chunk of usable screen real estate for just showing file names (especially important on laptops)

- The scroll bars could be a bit "lighter". They blend into the dark a bit too well.

colinramsay
Did you mean the tab bar? It's specifically mentioned that you can change this with a setting.
adregan
Try:

    "tabs_small": true
for small tabs. I just turned it on and now it takes up about as much space as space grey did.
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mangeletti
I used http://colorsublime.com/ - it took me about 1 second to install Afterglow.

Colorsublime installation instructions (using Package Control):

  1. CMD ^ P

  2. Type "install" and select "Package Control: Install Package"

  3. Type "Colorsublime" and select "Colorsublime"
Installing the theme:

  1. CMD ^ P

  2. Type "theme" and select "Colorsublime: Install Theme"

  3. Type "afterglow" and select "Afterglow"
Profit.

When using Colorsublime (steps 1 + 2 of the second set), you can also arrow up and down through the themes and get a live preview of each as you do so.

Note: Colorsublime only installs the color scheme. If you want to take full advantage of a theme like this (includes custom tab styles, custom sidebar styles, etc.), you'll need to follow the directions on their website.

jastanton
This is better than their instructions just marginally.

  1. CMD ^ P

  2. Type "install" and select "Package Control: Install Package"

  3. Type "Afterflow" and select "Theme - Afterglow"

  4. Press: Command + ,  (to go into settings).

  5. Paste the two lines from Github page, add any additional settings and restart sublime.
edit: Ah I just saw your update, previewing is a nice little feature for sure, especially when you're not sure how they handle colors for the languages you use most often. Sounds nice
mangeletti
I was just about to say, "see my latest edit"... when I saw your latest edit :)

The preview feature also lets you move between your open files while previewing a theme (without selecting it), so you can check HTML, CSS, Python, etc. all without changing your theme.

jaytaylor
Notably this is compatible with ST3 only. No backport for Sublime Text 2 users.
swang
Thanks. Kinda annoying this wasn't mentioned in parent, spent a couple minutes wondering why I couldn't find it in package manager.
pidg
This doesn't install the whole theme though (at least for me), just changes the colour scheme.

To that, you'll need to install the theme by following the instructions on the Afterglow github page.

mangeletti
You're right. Until this very moment, I just realized, I haven't ever "installed a theme", so I've never experienced the customizations available for the entire UI, just the color scheme. I'm going to try installing the theme now, and I'll update my OP to note this. Thanks.
baby
It's awesome for simple color theme, but for big themes with icons and other stuff it just doesn't work.
Tyguy7
Differents colors?
louhike
Yes, click on the link to their Github page.
avinassh
They also have crated a icon for ST2/ST3, which is also nice! link - https://github.com/YabataDesign/sublime-text-icon

I just applied, this is how it looks in Dock - http://i.imgur.com/zFFP9wq.png

mcescalante
same, just noticed this and changed the icon. I really like it so far :)

Note: if you do replace it, you probably will need to kill your dock, and clear the icon cache; here's a good command to do so:

rm /var/folders///*/com.apple.dock.iconcache;killall Dock

joshka
there's a couple of missing stars in that command between the slashes. That said, this didn't replace the icon for me. I needed to touch the app folder as well for the update to work

    touch /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app
    rm /var/folders/*/*/*/com.apple.dock.iconcache;killall Dock
mcescalante
Yeah, thanks on the stars - I forgot to actually enter them as commands and for some reason it removed the stars when the comment was parsed.
devll
This is gorgeous. I wish there was one for Emacs :(
elwell
The scheme I use looks similar:

  (custom-set-variables
   '(custom-enabled-themes (quote (tango-dark))))
  
  (custom-set-faces
   '(default ((t (:family "Consolas" :foundry "outline" :slant normal :weight normal :height 90 :width normal))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-1-face ((t (:foreground "#A0FA67"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-2-face ((t (:foreground "white"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-3-face ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-4-face ((t (:foreground "dodger blue"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-5-face ((t (:foreground "hot pink"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-6-face ((t (:foreground "cyan"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-7-face ((t (:foreground "lawn green"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-8-face ((t (:foreground "firebrick1"))))
   '(rainbow-delimiters-depth-9-face ((t (:foreground "SeaGreen1")))))
  
  (require 'rainbow-delimiters)
  (global-rainbow-delimiters-mode)
jacobsenscott
If you like that low contrast style you might like the zenburn emacs theme. It is a bit too low contrast for me so I use hc-zenburn (high contrast zenburn)
mswift42
You can easily port it:

Step 1: write down the colors for default foreground face, background face, keyword face, string face, comment face, functionname face, type face, variable face and constant face.

Step 2: Go to http://emacs-theme-creator.appspot.com/, paste the colors and click done.

Step 3: have fun with your new emacs theme.

mcescalante
I just installed it with Package Control, and added the two config lines to my User Prefs and it immediately updated everything without me even quitting and re-opening Sublime. I've been using the same ol' boring Soda dark theme for years now, so this is pretty refreshing. Thanks :)
ninebrows
Any scientific reason behind using a dark theme?
RansomTime
Does there need to be? People think it looks nice. I personally find text hard to read on a dark background, some people don't.
mtbcoder
Not scientific, but I find I have less eye strain with dark themes.
bsimpson
I don't have eyestrain problems on most devices, but the Retina MacBook I have at work wears my eyes out in just a few hours. I can stare at my Chromebook Pixel indefinitely without issue in the same environment.
mhomde
I find using a dark theme when coding in the dark is better because the bright white background won't blast your face.

light themes are better if you have a glossy display and there's some sunlight since you won't see so many reflections

chatmasta
I've heard dark themes can actually damage your eyesight because the contrast isn't high enough. I like white themes because it's just like paper. Black text is easy to see.
honksillet
Well, there are high contrast dark and light themes.
CmonDev
Sublime people are creating promo pages for something like IDE themes? That's interesting.
Sir_Cmpwn
Sublime is a culture of people where a larger portion of the users are design oriented when compared to most editors.
bstar77
It's not just sublime, you can find the same thing for old textmate themes and even some vim themes.
rkuykendall-com
> old textmate themes

I really wish the people working on Textmate right now would do SOMETHING to indicate on the homepage that Textmate is now open source, free, and actively developed on Github. Instead, they leave the Textmate 1.0 homepage up and people think it's an archaic, dead editor :(

1st Google result ( years out of date ): http://macromates.com/

2nd Google result ( actually the current project ): https://github.com/textmate/textmate

stdgy
Neat theme. I've been enjoying Space Gray for a few months now: http://kkga.github.io/spacegray/

Any other suggestions for somewhat minimal themes out there?

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Leimi
Nil is pretty cool https://github.com/nilium/st2-nil-theme
runaway
I switched to Nil w/ the Big Duo color scheme about a year ago and since then no other theme/scheme looks right. To me, it's the perfect use of contrast while still pleasing to the eye.
swah
Soda Light theme + Mac Classic scheme works for me.
smhg
Shameless plug:

I created an ST3 plugin called SynCycle[1]. It switches themes at sunrise and sunset.

e.g. a light theme during daytime and dark theme during nighttime.

For who's interested: you can install it with Package Control.

[1]: https://github.com/smhg/sublime-suncycle

baby
Oh so a bit like f.lux but for Sublime :) nice
bsimpson
I use dark themes whenever I can, but I could be convinced to use a similar package that let me switch themes on command. You could even call the bright command Go Outside and the dark one Go Inside.
smhg
That should have been SunCycle, not SynCycle...
decentrality
Before this I was using Soda Dark 3 -- also a theme which changes tabs, etc.

After installing Afterglow, my tabs and sidebar are badly distorted and garbled after restarting SublimeText3 with the configuration lines added.

Am I missing something, or do I need to clear something?

fierycatnet
Is there an easy way to port this to IntelliJ?
suyash
I would love to have this theme in my IntelliJ too.
teekert
Sorry for being a bit of topic but why is everybody so enthusiastic? I just installed the editor in Windows and it costs 70$! Is it that good? I remember installing it in Arch Linux for free without warnings... What is the deal? The website is not very clear on the exact license plus I found some alternatives that look the same on first glance (i.e. Lime Text).
Nemcue
70$ is not much money if you use it 8 hours a day. Also, you can use it without paying — it'll show a popup window now and again telling you to buy it; just a minor annoyance.