Out of interest, are they automatically classed as light or dark? For instance by some heuristic or algorithm. I saw it's reporting some contrast measures which is handy.
I wonder how feasible it might be to use some colour distance heuristics to find similar themes: then if you find one you mostly like but it's slightly off due to some preference, you can still easily browse that "neighborhood"
They're classified automatically, though I did make it so I can change the light/dark classification in the Admin tools if something is off.
Since the Similar Themes functionality was built, there has been work done on accessibility, tags, and the color profiles, so Similar may need to be revisited for its classification. I'll note to check that
Also, there is a Find My Theme link in the nav that asks a few visual preference questions, then shows themes related to the answers. If you have feedback about that, and what works/doesn't work well for you, I'd love to hear it!
Love your work on this and the previous site. Thanks!!!
One comment I had (I think I may have posted something like this on a github issue too) is that the site has that feel a bit of the sort of UI from the early 2000s - like helm, or cold fusion dashboards. There's something about it that screams developer generated UI rather than designer influenced. The light mode looks ok, but the greys on the dark mode don't feel particularly scream well suited to a theme website. (Obv. just my purely subjective opinion here).
The swatches preview on the search results pages probably should be much smaller swatches - similar to the copy embed perhaps. And the background of the top part of the card should match the background of the theme.
Heya! Thanks for the kind words and the feedback! Yeah, I'm still iterating on things and tweaking UI stuff, but these suggestions definitely help. I am more interested in the site's usefulness as opposed to modern design and don't really know how to get both without losing the functionality, etc. But over time, it will get better!
Very neat! One thing I noticed is the "remember" function doesn't seem to work properly. It seems functional when defaulted to iTerm but when I deselect that and pick some I actually use, the button seems to be disabled as it is unclickable. I imagine the account-based version would help but I haven't tried that yet.
You can set it if you have an Account, in your preferences. I don't think I built it in for stickiness in the guest mode, so that's great feedback. I'll check it out. I do preserve other settings in guest mode, and that one may have been overlooked.
Oh my. I have been using that repo and the themes on any new computer I have setup in the past 8-10 years at least (can't remember exactly, this repo is older than my career). I tried finding alternatives. While some worked, I have seen myself coming back to this repo again and again. Thank you for maintaining it for so long.
Oh wow, thanks! I'm glad the repo has been useful to you all these years! It was surprising how it took off years ago! I've had people mention it to me at tech gatherings, and a few times it randomly showed up on a few of the Helpful Tools lists at companies I've worked for, when the person who created the list had no idea I was the maintainer
It would be nice to freeze the terminal preview after it generates the text for when you want to flip between color modes and color vision settings. Otherwise it gets annoying to wait for each one to complete the animation.
Awesome. I would make the themes much more visible on the main feed so that you can scroll through them on the phone and get a good impression. For me they were way too small so you end up entering every page to get a better glimpse.
Very nice site.
Out of interest, are they automatically classed as light or dark? For instance by some heuristic or algorithm. I saw it's reporting some contrast measures which is handy.
I wonder how feasible it might be to use some colour distance heuristics to find similar themes: then if you find one you mostly like but it's slightly off due to some preference, you can still easily browse that "neighborhood"
Hi there!
They're classified automatically, though I did make it so I can change the light/dark classification in the Admin tools if something is off.
Since the Similar Themes functionality was built, there has been work done on accessibility, tags, and the color profiles, so Similar may need to be revisited for its classification. I'll note to check that
Also, there is a Find My Theme link in the nav that asks a few visual preference questions, then shows themes related to the answers. If you have feedback about that, and what works/doesn't work well for you, I'd love to hear it!
Thanks!
Love your work on this and the previous site. Thanks!!!
One comment I had (I think I may have posted something like this on a github issue too) is that the site has that feel a bit of the sort of UI from the early 2000s - like helm, or cold fusion dashboards. There's something about it that screams developer generated UI rather than designer influenced. The light mode looks ok, but the greys on the dark mode don't feel particularly scream well suited to a theme website. (Obv. just my purely subjective opinion here).
The swatches preview on the search results pages probably should be much smaller swatches - similar to the copy embed perhaps. And the background of the top part of the card should match the background of the theme.
Heya! Thanks for the kind words and the feedback! Yeah, I'm still iterating on things and tweaking UI stuff, but these suggestions definitely help. I am more interested in the site's usefulness as opposed to modern design and don't really know how to get both without losing the functionality, etc. But over time, it will get better!
Thanks!
Very neat! One thing I noticed is the "remember" function doesn't seem to work properly. It seems functional when defaulted to iTerm but when I deselect that and pick some I actually use, the button seems to be disabled as it is unclickable. I imagine the account-based version would help but I haven't tried that yet.
You can set it if you have an Account, in your preferences. I don't think I built it in for stickiness in the guest mode, so that's great feedback. I'll check it out. I do preserve other settings in guest mode, and that one may have been overlooked.
Thanks!
Oh my. I have been using that repo and the themes on any new computer I have setup in the past 8-10 years at least (can't remember exactly, this repo is older than my career). I tried finding alternatives. While some worked, I have seen myself coming back to this repo again and again. Thank you for maintaining it for so long.
Oh wow, thanks! I'm glad the repo has been useful to you all these years! It was surprising how it took off years ago! I've had people mention it to me at tech gatherings, and a few times it randomly showed up on a few of the Helpful Tools lists at companies I've worked for, when the person who created the list had no idea I was the maintainer
Thanks for the kind words!
It would be nice to freeze the terminal preview after it generates the text for when you want to flip between color modes and color vision settings. Otherwise it gets annoying to wait for each one to complete the animation.
Yeah I've noticed that myself and have it as a roadmap item to look into. Thanks for the feedback!
I forgot to mention, themes added to TT do sync back to the GitHub repository, and vice versa!
Awesome. I would make the themes much more visible on the main feed so that you can scroll through them on the phone and get a good impression. For me they were way too small so you end up entering every page to get a better glimpse.
Yeah, I was expecting something more similar to https://vimcolorschemes.com/i/trending
I haven't focused much on mobile yet, but it is in the plans. Thanks for the feedback!
https://terminal.sexy/
my humble effort in that direction : https://terminal-theme-studio.pages.dev/
Nice!
keep going