Dracula
Dark color theme for code editors, terminals, and apps with consistent syntax highlighting.
Overview
Dracula is a widely-adopted color scheme designed for consistency across code editors, terminal emulators, and applications. Originally created in 2013 by Zeno during a hospital stay, it has grown into one of the most popular themes available, now supporting over 463 different applications including VSCode, Vim, iTerm, Sublime Text, and many others.
The theme is community-driven and lovingly maintained, with contributions from developers worldwide. It emphasizes reducing context switching by providing a unified visual experience across all your development tools, helping you stay focused and in the zone.
Dracula is available as both a free open-source theme and as Dracula Pro, a premium offering with additional features like the Alucard light mode variant.
Key features
- Available for 400+ applications
- Consistent color palette across editors and terminals
- Community-maintained and open-source
- Dracula Pro with premium variants
- Light mode variant (Alucard)
- Support for VSCode, Vim, iTerm, Sublime Text, and more
- Extremely wide application support
- Community-driven development
- Reduces context switching between tools
- Free and open-source base version
- Well-designed color scheme optimized for readability
- Active maintenance and updates
- Requires manual installation in each application
- Premium features locked behind Dracula Pro
- Limited customization options in base version
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