feedback/showcase: Dracula inspired Leonids theme

[bigpick]

Background

Hi there! Just as soon as I finished looking at the first Dracula community I heard this was the place instead, so posting this here.

Long time Dracula user, and hopefully soon to be contributor (looking for projects). I wanted to share with you all my personal page, which is a Dracula inspired take on the Leonids Jekyll theme.

You can see the site here.

Questions/thoughts

I'm curious what are thoughts on readability, and overall proper representation of the Dracula theme? In general, but at least specifically for

• the Cyan accent on the main page (date, author)
• link highlighting as green (wasn't sure if that is covered by this spec listing?)

I just found out about the Dracula specification, though that is tailored towards syntax highlighting (which for the site is done using the Dracula Pygments theme)

I know there is a Github pages theme already, but I really prefer the initial layout that the Leonids them provides.

It's all pretty hackily done by just changing values inplace in css/scss files. If interested, I could try to clean it up into a single separate file + option, but I'm no front end developer so might take some time :)

[benknoble]

Random thought after a quick browse: some of the code snippets (e.g., the scala intro post) use a dark main color on a dark background... not easy to read.

[bigpick]

Hey, thanks for the look! That's something I actually went back and forth on originally.

It's the syntax for generic or non-specifically highlighted code. Originally I had it as #f8f8f2 (foreground) on #282a36 (background), as that would match the code syntax which is the same, and also and seem to be in alignment with the Pygments values; it seemed like a lot of foreground text on pages with not a lot of specific code, but just general code-block formatted sections, though.

I'm not particularly tied to the current #6272a4 (comment) on background for generic, but was trying to pick something nice looking but still easier to read.