To me, all three look bad. Eclipse - no colors for different things, hard to find what I'm looking for (if I compare to the Emacs example, if I was looking at

To me, all three look bad. Eclipse - no colors for different things, hard to find what I'm looking for (if I compare to the Emacs example, if I was looking at this code trying to figure out what members this class has I'd be looking for brown and finding it much more quickly) Emacs - terrible color scheme, both the brown and the green are too bright, not enough contrast to read. Proposed - all the bold text hurts my eyes and distracts me from everything else. In my crazy theme almost every "thing" has its own color, and it is very easy to find what I want by looking for the right "thing" or combination of things. As an example for where highlighting keywords would help (which is what you mentioned in your post), if I'm looking for "that for loop that does the main logic" I'd look for the place with the small blue blob on the left and a long bright blob to the right (if it was an "if" likely both blobs would be smaller ;)).