Introduction

You know all of those code screenshots you see on Twitter? Although the code's usually impressive, we saw room for improvement in the aesthetic department. Carbon makes it easy to create and share beautiful images of your source code. So what are you waiting for? Go impress all of your followers with your newfound design prowess. 🎨

Visit dawnlabs.io/carbon or read our post to learn more about the project.

Features

• Import from GitHub gist. Simply append a GitHub gist id to the url
• Customization. Customize things like your image's syntax theme, window style, and more
• Share quickly. Save your image or Tweet a link with one click

Usage

Import

There are a few different ways to import code into Carbon:

• Drag a file onto the editor
• Append a GitHub gist id to the url (e.g. www.dawnlabs.io/carbon/GIST_ID_HERE)
• Paste your code directly

Customization

Once you've got all of your code into Carbon, you can customize your image by changing the syntax theme, background color, window theme, or padding.

Export/Sharing

After you've customized your image you can either Tweet a link to the image, or save it directly.

Contribute

If you have discovered a bug or have a feature suggestion, feel free to create an issue on Github.

If you'd like to make some changes yourself, see the following:

1. Fork this repository to your own GitHub account and then clone it to your local device
2. Build the webpack bundle and start the application: yarn build && yarn start
3. Finally, submit a pull request with your changes!

Authors

Carbon is a project by

• Mike Fix (@mfix22)
• Brian Dennis (@briandennis)
• Jake Dexheimer (@jakedex)