It was only a matter of time, but I’ve created a second TextMate theme, “Clouds Midnight,” a dark-background version my popular first theme, Clouds.
Like Clouds, this theme was built to work nicely with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. As always, please provide feedback if you use it with another language.
I’ve been developing this dark version for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve added some new highlighting that isn’t found in Clouds: HTML attributes are now a different color to stand out from the tag name (thank you to the talent Marc Amos of Boston Web Studio for this suggestion). I’ve been using this with my favorite 14px Inconsolata-dz (as pictured below), but I’ve found that this also works quite well with the old stand-by of 10px Monaco with Anti-Alias turned off.
The New Clouds Midnight
So, if you want it, here it is.
How to Install a TextMate Theme
There are a couple of ways you can do this: you can double-click on the file inside the zip file download, and assuming you have TextMate installed, the theme should load up.
Or, you’ll want to drop the file inside of the zip file download into:
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Themes
Then, go into TextMate’s preferences, choose the Fonts & Colors tab and choose “Clouds Midnight” from the drop-down. Poof, done.
And that’s that. Again, tell your friends and/or leave me feedback.
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