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100%, I always tweak any color theme I use to have comments highly contrasting green or orange... dunno what's with the modern trend of making everything eyes-h

by nnq 7y ago

100%, I always tweak any color theme I use to have comments highly contrasting green or orange... dunno what's with the modern trend of making everything eyes-hurtingly-colourful, but then going and muting out the parts that should stand out the most. Another pet peeve I have is why tf do all color themes try to color variable vs. functions vs. fields differently: they never get this right in dynamic languages, and they couldn't anyway bc variables often hold functions in them. Basically all modern / editor-default color themes are dead wrong and annoying! (VSCode and Visual Studio ones may be on point occasionally, but they fail at dynamic languages too and only end up spewing meaningless distracting colors everywhere.)

chrismorgan 7y ago
A few years back I decided to start a new colourscheme in Vim which I called “bland”. It started out with reverting all of the colour and term portions of syntax/syncolor.vim, and using black (#000) on white (#fff) (I had hitherto used a dark colourscheme, but decided to try a light one), with keywords bold, and that was it. After a week of that (a deliberately enforced delay), I succumbed to adding a little bit of text colouring, #cc0000 for strings, #009900 and italics for comments, and for no particularly good reason #0000cc for numbers. I added pale background colouring for diffs too. It’s grown a very little more complex since then, but not much. I haven’t ever switched back. I made a dark variant of it last year for the odd occasions where I want a dark colourscheme. Then it’s primarily white on black. Most colourschemes out there are absurdly low-contrast. Part of my inspiration in finally getting round to making this colourscheme, and going for a light background, was experience several years earlier of using Vim on a not-too-bright laptop on a bus with substantial sunlight: I always had to switch to a dark-on-light colourscheme to be able to read the code at all.

by nnq 7y ago

chrismorgan 7y ago

A few years back I decided to start a new colourscheme in Vim which I called “bland”. It started out with reverting all of the colour and term portions of syntax/syncolor.vim, and using black (#000) on white (#fff) (I had hitherto used a dark colourscheme, but decided to try a light one), with keywords bold, and that was it. After a week of that (a deliberately enforced delay), I succumbed to adding a little bit of text colouring, #cc0000 for strings, #009900 and italics for comments, and for no particularly good reason #0000cc for numbers. I added pale background colouring for diffs too. It’s grown a very little more complex since then, but not much. I haven’t ever switched back. I made a dark variant of it last year for the odd occasions where I want a dark colourscheme. Then it’s primarily white on black. Most colourschemes out there are absurdly low-contrast. Part of my inspiration in finally getting round to making this colourscheme, and going for a light background, was experience several years earlier of using Vim on a not-too-bright laptop on a bus with substantial sunlight: I always had to switch to a dark-on-light colourscheme to be able to read the code at all.