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Products that do what I built a web app to generate Emacs and Vim themes from VSCode theme does

Screenshots: https://nice.github.io/themeforge/screenshots/ Website: https://nice.github.io/themeforge Source: https://github.com/nice/themeforge Written in Vanilla JS, generation happens entirely in browser. Automatically adds some default faces for few Emacs packages. Vim version also comes with 256 color support for terminals.

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   I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser▲375

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   VSColors, a Visual Studio theme browser▲52

   2021 · vscolors.com

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   VSLook▲130

   Easiest way to create vscode theme.

   2022

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   VS Code Theme Studio▲141

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   2022

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   Hey, I built https://ShadcnThemer.com - a web app for creating and sharing themes for shadcn/ui, made with my some of my favorites, Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS 4, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase. The goal was to make it easy to visually design shadcn color themes, preview them live across various example UIs, and export them straight into your projects (as CSS or via the shadcn CLI registry command). I had a bit of experience going into this because I built the Theme Studio for VS Code in the past, but it was fun using a modern stack and leveraging Cursor to help me along the way this…

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   2018

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    Theme your VSCode like Slack

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    2013 · github.com

13. 13AW
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    Pint for GitHub▲71

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16. 16SH
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