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Specials Board is a light-on-dark .seestyle theme for the Panic Coda text editor

I've never been a big fan of light-on-dark text editor themes, generally finding the contrast insufferable. However, after noticing that a bright display was giving me headaches, I started searching for a good light-on-dark theme for the text editor I use the most, Panic Software’s Coda. Following an unrelated tweet I discovered Ryan Bates' beautiful Railcast Theme for TextMate and decided to re-create the essence of that theme for Coda. The end result references both the Railscast theme as well as its inspiration, idlefingers by Damien Timewell.

The Specials Board theme includes .seestyle files for all programming languages that Coda supports out of the box. Not just Ruby, PHP, XHTML, CSS and the others referenced in the demo screencaps, but ASP, Python, Smarty, Action Script, Java and all the others. In addition to the default modes included with Coda, Specials Board includes a .seestyle for the Django Template language mode that I've created (SpecialsBoard no longer supports the Django or Django Template modes created by BigNerdRanch) and, with the help of Rudolf Adamkovič, Andrew Porter, Christopher Hendrix and Mark Learst it also includes .seestyle files for bash, CoffeeScript, i18n, Makefile, YAML, jQuery, MooTools, LESS, SASS and WordPress. More instructions on finding, downloading, and installing custom syntax modes can be found in the Readme file.

I've shared [this theme] with all of my coworkers, and have it in my dropbox account so that I can install it whenever I encounter a fresh copy of Coda.

Eli Horne

Excellently done, sir. Really easy on the eyes.

Leland

Great theme! Thanks for sharing!

Jimmy

This theme is great. I love the colors.

Jochem

This [theme] looks great. Thank you!

Bruce

Frequently Asked Questions

What font are you using?: The font used in the screencaps is Panic Sans which is installed by default with Coda and is a modified version of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. I've tried others including Inconsolata, Menlo, and Monaco but Panic Sans remains my favorite monospaced font.

Updates

To keep track of changes to this Coda .seestyle Theme, you can follow the project on GitHub or grab the RSS Feed of updates.

Installation

View the Readme file for installation instructions.

License

Specials Board is licensed under an OSF approved BSD License.