greybeard devtools theme

greybeard is a fork of SO-Dark-Monokai-v3 chrome developer tools theme. in addition of the monokai color scheme, all dev-tools ui…

What is greybeard devtools theme?

The 'Greybeard DevTools Theme' is a Chrome extension providing a new appearance to your developer tools. It adopts a dark Monokai color scheme combined with a matching dark grey palette to give your Chrome a refined and eye-friendly makeover. To apply, you need to activate 'Developer Tools experiments' in your Chrome settings. A feature also exists to adjust the tab widths to accommodate tab names. The theme, originated as a fork of the SO-Dark-Monokai-v3, is open for further customizability and improvements via GitHub.

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By: xero

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Users: 753 ▲ 26

Rating: 4.05 (19)

Version: 3.1.5 (Last updated: 2014-12-17)

Creation date: 2014-12-17

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 551.94K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 32534 ▼ 173

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#6352 in Developer Tools ▲ 18 #105 in developer tools keyword 56 ▼ 1 #171 in reload keyword 44 ▼ 3 #224 in theme keyword 48 ▲ 5

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greybeard is a fork of SO-Dark-Monokai-v3 chrome developer tools theme. in addition of the monokai color scheme, all dev-tools ui elements have been updated to a matching dark grey palette. this is the packaged version for chrome v33+.

after installing you need to enable custom themes:

navigate to chrome://flags/
enable Developer Tools experiments
reload chrome
open devtools
click settings > experiments
click allow custom ui themes
reload devtools for theme to fully apply

feel free to fork it on github! https://github.com/xero/greybeard-devtools

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Pros

Saves user's eyes
Aesthetically pleasing
Similar to the Sublime Text theme
Easier on the eyes than the default
Helpful for development

Cons

Unreadable colors for elements tab
Line numbers are too brightly colored
Doesn't work well on the latest version of Chrome
Font is too dark especially for console errors
Complete framework not styled as shown in screenshots

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Works like a boss. This extension is literary saving my eyes.

PaddyElm, 2018-03-31

Unreadable colors for the Elements tab

Elia Grady, 2016-10-06

Great theme, I have used for quite a while, but recently a the line numbers are all colored very brightly and I had to switch, hopefully that gets fixed, thanks!