#and then i realized that i wasn't using a monospaced font (Comic Sans)
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Theme Adventure
i was gonna start this post with "okay, i know i haven't posted in a couple days", but then i found that queued post in my frozen queue, so that's not even true anymore. anyways. i haven't been productive because i went on an Editor Theme Side Quest which went from an hour to 3 days. At first, I found a theme when I was looking for plugins to add to the Project Template, but it didn't look the way I wanted. It was a little darker than vanilla, with more saturated colors for the text editor, but it had a yucky font and some of the text colors were questionable. I had to directly edit the Godot settings text file, which was suuper fucking annoying, but it was kind of interesting, I guess. After I discovered I wasn't a fan, I reset all my editor stuff to default, and started changing the colors myself.
Initially, I was only changing the background/accent color, so I could have a slightly darker mode with orange details (gotta rep the niche favourite color pick). Then I realized I could just steal only the colors from that theme, and then I could tweak them to my liking. I was originally gonna just boost their saturation and be done with it, but (like everything else in this damn story) it got a little out of control, and I ended up making an image in ms paint to visualize what the different text colors would look like together.
If you look closely at what the final product looks like (which took WAY MORE TWEAKING after this), and compare it to my silly paint blueprint, you'll notice just how much I ended up changing between the two. I tried to maintain the original saturation values, to keep a similar vibe in the editor. I'm particularly happy with the blue strings, teal node references, and orange functions - they make everything look really pretty with the pink keywords. The entire editor just has a very different vibe that satisfies my rabid urge to be quirky.
God, if there's two things I love in design, it's bright, saturated colors on a dark background, and fucking ORANGE, BABY!!!!! It looks wonderful. So wonderful, in fact, that I completely forgot that normal people don't code in Comic Sans. Since I started coding 4 years ago, I have coded in Comic Sans (or Comic Mono, to be exact), and I have not been able to code in anything else. It's just the norm for me. Any time you see something I create, remember that it was made in Comic Sans. Anyways, I wrote way too fucking much about my silly editor theme, and I need to get back to actually doing work. Take care, Mike! :)
#game dev#godot#the reason i use comic mono is actually incredibly funny#when i was in high school we had an assignment where we would make the computer draw rectangles#but it would draw them with text. like you would print a string that said “------” and then one that said “| |”#and mine would never look right and neither me nor the teacher could figure it out#we were so pissed#and then i realized that i wasn't using a monospaced font (Comic Sans)#and when i changed it back everything was fine#and i was so embarrassed i never brought it up to my teacher again and downloaded Comic Mono instead of using a normal person font#now every new IDE i start using i have to install Comic Mono on as part of the initial customization process#i secretly feel like i'm gonna end up hating my theme but i'm gonna keep using it because i'm stubborn
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