MD-Dashing Theme 1.0

General Overview

This is an original, custom theme designed to work with several current Markdown Editors and Viewers.

Fonts

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Ideally, this theme is intended to make use of Adobe's Open Source fonts, Adobe Source Sans Pro and Adobe Source Code Pro. You can check out the GitHub Projects (code - sans) or download the OTF files directly from SourceForge (code - sans). The easiest way to install the fonts though, is using Typekit (code - sans) - assuming you have an account either directly or through Creative Cloud.

Alternate fallbacks have been defined in the stylesheet, but, I really would encourage you to get the Source fonts.

Applications

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This theme was originally created for LightPaper.

Thanks to @staudi's Clearness Dark+ Theme and it's documentation, I discovered that it also works well with:

MOU

Marked 2

QLMarkdown

Installing it as a theme for QLMarkdown will have an effect on the Finder Previews of MarkDown Files as well.

In theory, this theme should also play nicely with any other markdown apps that use CSS to style the preview, and TXT files for the theme of the editor. If you happen to try it in any, I'd love to know how it turns out.

Fun Fact

I'm also building out a version of this theme for FoldingText which is available in this repo: ft-dashing-theme

I've been tinkering with these fonts and colors for quite a while, across most apps I use regularly that allow for much customization of their appearance. I hope to continue rounding them up, polishing things, and sharing them. Apps that are hopefully coming sometime sort of soon-ish include:

• OmniGraffle
• OmniOutliner
• OmniFocus
• Sublime Text 3/2
• iTerm 2
• Alfred
• Path Finder
• LibreOffice

If you would like to request support for any other apps, let me know and we can take a look. Contact info is at the bottom of this doc.

Installation

• Clone or download and unzip this repo
• Install Source Code Pro and Source Sans Pro
• Follow the rest of the steps listed below for the app(s) of your choice

LightPaper

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~/.lightpaper/Themes/

• copy md-dashing-theme/ into ~/.lightpaper/Themes/
• Open LightPaper's Preferences
• Switch to the Styles Tab
• select "dashing" from the Theme dropdown in both the Markdown and Preview panels
• If you want to match the appearance of the example image
  • In the markdown panel
    • Set the font to Source Code Pro
    • Set the font-size to 16

Marked 2

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~/Library/Application Support/Marked/Custom CSS

• Open Marked 2's Preferences
• Switch to the Style Tab
• Click on the [+] button below the Custom CSS list
• Select md-dashing-theme/dashing.css from the location you saved it to earlier

Mou

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~/Library/Application Support/Mou/CSS/

• copy md-dashing-theme/dashing.css into ~/Library/Application Support/Mou/CSS/
• copy md-dashing-theme/dashing.txt into ~/Library/Application Support/Mou/Themes/
• Open Mou's Preferences
• In the Themes Tab - set Use Theme to "dashing"
• In the CSS Tab - set Use CSS to "dashing"

QLMarkdown

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~/Library/QuickLook/QLMarkdown.qlgenerator/Contents/Resources/style.css

• Navigate to either /Library/QuickLook/ or ~/Library/QuickLook/
• Right-click/ctrl-click on QLMarkdown.qlgenerator
  • Select Show Package Contents
• Navigate to Contents/Resources/
• copy md-dashing-theme/dashing.css into the folder
• Rename style.css to style-ORIG.css
• Rename dashing.css to style.css

Contact

Please feel free to open an Issue.

Mundane but Important

Dashing Theme is released under the MIT license and is copyright 2014 Jordan Pagels (@jpgls). The full license is located in the project repository for more information.