Dominion Day
for TextMate 1.5.8
It’s no secret that your average computer nerd can barely dress himself let alone put together a harmonious color scheme, and as such, looking at the vast majority of the TextMate themes available for download—like looking at your average computer nerd—has a tendency to make your eyes explode. A neon color here, an unnecessary italic there, and pretty soon every letter on the screen is screaming for your attention so loudly that you just reflexively tune them all out and reach for the damn Nuprin.
In keeping with the regal purpleness of the TextMate brand identity, I crafted this theme to draw the user’s eye to the things that I feel are most important, while allowing other elements to fall quietly into the background. It’s a little too dark for older laptop monitors, but I think it looks just peachy on a well calibrated display, and it’s been fairly well tuned for HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Python.
Yes, I stole the name from Gary Numan.
