Darkness: Dark Themes for Popular Websites
Darkness is a Chrome extension that provides dark themes for popular websites such as Google, Facebook, Gmail and YouTube.
Using dark themes reduces the eye strain and fatigue caused by a bright screen, helps you sleep faster and better at night, and generally makes you awesome!
Major Contributors to Darkness (10+ commits): Lior Grossman, Theis Villumsen, Nicolas Botello, Derek Bytheway
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Features
- Supports 16 websites: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, Inbox, Google Docs, Dropbox, Twitter, Reddit, Quora, Facebook Messenger, StackOverflow, GitHub, Trello, CloudFlare, ShareLaTeX (help us add more)
- Select from 5 color themes: Iceberg, Tomorrow, Material Design, Dusk, Red Alert (help us add more)
- Written in JavaScript, uses SASS
- Self-hosted. Easy to install on Windows, Mac, Linux
- Also available on Chrome Web Store.
Installation
Installing Darkness Developer Edition:
- Recommended: join our developers community to discuss and ask questions.
- Fork the Darkness repo: https://github.com/liorgrossman/darkness/fork
- Clone your fork locally:
- If you use SSH:
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USER/darkness.git
- or using HTTPS:
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USER/darkness.git
- If you use SSH:
- Go to the root Darkness directory:
cd darkness
- Set up a the original repo as a remote:
- If you use SSH:
git remote add upstream git@github.com:liorgrossman/darkness.git
- or using HTTPS:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/liorgrossman/darkness.git
- If you use SSH:
- Get the code:
git fetch upstream
- Install Node.js, unless you already have it installed
- Install packages and compile all SCSS files to CSS:
npm install
(run it from the same directory as package.json)
Loading it in Chrome:
- On Chrome, browse to chrome://extensions
- If you have already Darkness installed, disable it
- Check Developer mode in the top of the Extensions page
- Click Load unpacked extension...
- Choose the sub-directory darkness/darkness-chrome (where manifest.json resides)
To keep Darkness up-to-date, please pull occasionally:
git checkout master
git pull upstream master
npm install
Contributing fixes and new themes
Pull requests are welcome! Please see our contribution guide to quickly improve and extend Darkness.
Be in touch
- Join the Darkness Developers Community on Facebook
- Contact us at: contact@lifehacklabs.com
- Check out our other projects: BookAuthority and Select New Tab
License
GPLv3