Best Practices: IDE Code Color Scheme and Font

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I was reading http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/01/27/asp-net-mvc-1-0-release-candidate-now-available.aspx and noticed a Fantastic color scheme used to illustrate their code in Visual Studio.

The white background is starting to hurt my eyes after long periods, but the black I find is also to abrasive.

Does anyone have a exported version of that color scheme, or in leiu, care to share their color schemes thwy find for a developer whic spends about 15 hours a day in Visual Studio?

Thermae answered 28/1, 2009 at 1:40 Comment(0)

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I'm not sure which color scheme is the best - it pretty much depends on your individual preference. But take a look at the pages below for some schemes

Stotinka answered 28/1, 2009 at 1:47 Comment(3)

I did "Is your IDE Hot or Not?" years ago and it is still one of the top referrers to my blog.... – Dorset 28/1, 2009 at 14:57

"Is your IDE Hot or Not?" seems to be down now. – Meldon 20/2, 2013 at 12:45

"Is your IDE Hot or Not?" link fixed – Cromagnon 17/6, 2014 at 3:29

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Try "Ruby Blue" from this page.

Thermae answered 28/1, 2009 at 2:3 Comment(4)

I was just looking for it myself and luckily I just found it at gist.github.com/236449 it is hosted there by Dylan Thomas from dylandoesdigits.blogspot.com/2009/11/… – Hexastich 22/11, 2009 at 13:37

Thanks for sharing this, Dave. I should add that the font that seems to work best for these darker colors--for me at least--is Monaco (webdevkungfu.com/textmate-envy-aka-monaco-font-for-windows). – Entablement 22/11, 2009 at 19:26

The folks over at Elegant code also have a version of the "Ruby Blue" theme that they blogged about at elegantcode.com/2009/11/22/visual-studio-color-scheme – Hexastich 23/11, 2009 at 14:38

I'm also maintaining my own version, based on the emacs theme: bitbucket.org/jasulak/ruby-blue-visual-studio-theme/wiki/Home – Showboat 23/1, 2010 at 23:15

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Zenburn

Oh and the VS2005 port by Jeff Atwood Zenburn VS2005

Microparasite answered 28/1, 2009 at 2:8 Comment(0)

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Consolas font works pretty good for me. It was designed for developers. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en

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