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Useful Apps: Carbon

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Suwon Yoon
Suwon Yoon
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What is Carbon?​

Carbon lets you create and share beautiful images of your source code.

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Basically, instead of taking tacky screenshots from your IDE, you can simply use this tool to create beautiful showcase for your code.

How do you start using Carbon?​

You can get started by clicking this link. This link will take you to their homepage, where you can directly start to use Carbon.

Import​

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

  • Drop a file into the editor
  • Append a GitHub gist id to the url (example)
  • 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/image, window theme, or padding.

You can even drop an image file onto the editor to set the background to that image.

How do I use Carbon?​

I usually use it when when I am making presentations that needs slides that showcase code. It also comes in handy for code snippets needed in academic papers.