lukebrooker / slate

A quick but clean Textual IRC theme

Slate

Quickly and badly adapted from Satorial

A pleasantly clean dark theme for the Textual IRC client, specifically Textual 2.1.1 and up, which is newer than what's currently in the Appstore. If you don't feel like building it yourself, you can get a binary build courtesy of Zain's Qwalitee Software Buildz™®.

Hey, did you notice the part about 2.1.0 not working?

No?

How about now?

Srsly, the Appstore 2.1.0 version will not work with this theme.

What's awesome about it?

• It's dark.
• Nice colors! (Mostly appropriated from Chris Kempson's Tomorrow theme).
• Sensible typography courtesy of Brandon Grotesque
• Timestamps are faded on the right, but show up brighter when you hover, to reduce visual clutter

Fonts?

The screenshot below is using Brandon Grotesque Light. If you don't have typekit or want to pay for the font a free alternative, Josefin Sans is worth a look.

You can choose a different font, but the entire theme assumes you'll be working with this typeface. You can choose a different typeface for the body of the window, but as the commercials say on teevee, "results may vary."

If you're looking to replicate the look in the screenshot below, choose Brandon Grotesque Light at 22pt (Yes I'm blind).

Screenshot?

Here you go:

Installing?

It depends if you have a sandboxed build of Textual. Check out the theme folder to the relevant location:

• Sandboxed: ~/Library/Containers/com.codeux.irc.textual/Data/Library/Application Support/Textual IRC/Styles/slate
• Non-sandboxed: ~/Library/Application Support/Textual IRC/Styles/slate

Hacking?

License is BSD. See copyright.txt.

If you'd like to edit the style, you'll need the sass and bourbon ruby gems installed. Assuming you're in the sass/ directory inside the project, you invoke sass as follows:

sass --watch .:.. -r ./bourbon/lib/bourbon.rb

Happy hacking!

slate's Issues

Testing