Introduction

You know all of those code screenshots you see on Twitter? Though 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 carbon.now.sh 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

Example

Usage

Import

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

• Drop a file onto the editor
• Append a GitHub gist id to the url (e.g. carbon.now.sh/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.

Community

Check out these projects our awesome community has created:

• IntelliJ IDEA carbon-now-sh - Open up the selection in your current IntelliJ IDEA file in Carbon through a context menu
• Atom carbon-now-sh - Open up your current Atom file in Carbon with shift-cmd-A
• VS Code carbon-now-sh - Open up your current VS Code file in Carbon with command carbon
• Sublime Text 3 carbon-now-sh - Open up the selection in your current Sublime Text 3 file with a custom bound key
• Vim carbon-now-sh - Open up the selection in your current Vim/Neovim using function CarbonNowSh()
• Emacs carbon-now-sh - Open up the selection in your current Emacs using interactive function carbon-now-sh

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. Make sure yarn is globally installed (npm install -g yarn)
3. Run yarn to download required packages.
4. Build and start the application: yarn dev
5. If you contributed something new, run yarn contrib:add <your GitHub username> to add yourself below
6. Finally, submit a pull request with your changes!

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

A note on adding themes/languages

We're happy to accept any PRs adding new themes and languages to Carbon! Currently there are a few ways to do so:

1. If the theme or language is supported in Codemirror, all you have to do is add a constant for it.

2. If it's not supported, you can add a Codemirror compliant custom file to implement it and add a constant like above.

Thanks To

▲ ZEIT for sponsoring Carbon's hosting.

Authors

Carbon is a project by

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

Contributors

Thanks goes out to all these wonderful people (emoji key):

briandennis 💻 📖 🚇 👀	mfix22 💬 💻 🤔	jakedex 💬 💻 🎨 📹	andrewda 💬 💻 🐛 👀	yeskunall 💻 📖 🔧 🐛	stoshfabricius 💻	jkling38 📖
otobrglez 💻	darahak 📖	dom96 💻	elrumordelaluz 💻	cjb 💻	Krzysztof-Cieslak 💻	fernahh 📖
g3r4n 💻	Mat Gadd 🐛 💻	Brad Davies 🐛 💻	Rafael Câmara 💻	Gleb Bahmutov ⚠️ 🔧	Iván Munguía 💻	Dillon Mulroy 💻
Nihad Abbasov 💻	Hugo Torzuoli 📖	Bruno C. Couto 💻	Mark Molnar 💻	Takahiko Inayama 💻	François Martin 💻	Raphael Amorim 💻