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Darkness: Dark Themes for Popular Websites

Darkness Logo

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 :)

Screenshot

Features

  • Supports 4 websites: Google, Facebook, Gmail, YouTube (help us add more)
  • Boasts 3 color schemes: Iceberg, Tomorrow, Material (help us add more)
  • Written in Javascript and SCSS (basically CSS with variables)
  • Self-hosted. Easy to install on Windows, Mac, Linux
  • Also available on Chrome Web Store.

Installation

Installing Darkness Developer Edition:
  1. Fork the Darkness repo: https://github.com/liorgrossman/darkness/fork
  2. 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
  3. Go to the root Darkness directory: cd darkness
  4. Set up a the original repo as a remote: git remote add upstream git@github.com:liorgrossman/darkness.git
  5. Get the code: git fetch upstream
  6. Install packages and compile all SCSS files to CSS (required): npm install
Loading it in Chrome:
  1. On Chrome, browse to chrome://extensions
  2. If you have already Darkness installed, disable it
  3. Check Developer mode in the top of the Extensions page
  4. Click Load unpacked extension...
  5. 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

Contributing Code

Pull requests are welcome! Please see our contribution guide to help us improve and extend Darkness.

Got more questions?

License

GPLv3