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: 663 ▼ -3

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

Ranking

# 36862 ▼ 247

Other rankings

#7445 in Developer Tools ▼ 25 #96 in developer tools keyword 59 ▼ 3 #178 in theme keyword 56 ▼ 13 #179 in reload keyword 48 ▼ 2

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Extension summary

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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

User reviews

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Pros

Easier on the eyes than the default theme
Great design and aesthetic appeal
Helpful for developers
Saves eyes from strain
Good compatibility with Sublime Text theme

Cons

Unreadable colors for the Elements tab
Bright line numbers that are distracting
Difficult to operate on console due to font color
Not fully stylized as per screenshots
Issues with the latest Chrome version

Most mentioned

Works like a boss
Saving eyes
Colors are not appropriate
Bright line numbers
Difficult to read console font

Recent reviews

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!