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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

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Usage

Import

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

carbon.now.sh/GIST_ID_HERE

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:

Editor Plugins

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

CLIs

CLI carbon-now-cli - Open a file in Carbon or download it directly using carbon-now , featuring an interactive mode, selective highlighting and more