I tried both ends of the spectrum. There’s definitely something real about too much colours; the archetypal example of colouring our human language tokens by t

I tried both ends of the spectrum. There’s definitely something real about too much colours; the archetypal example of colouring our human language tokens by type (verbs, nouns, etc) making no sense sure rings home after a while. But I found very much use of “colour”+ themeing for two things: - comments vs code, one toned down vs the other, ideally swappable with a hotkey - delimited content such as strings. It sure saves a lot of time when you get an imbalanced delimiter nested in a forest and the whole of your file changes colour starting near the imbalance. I’m very much of the opinion that a lot of syntax highlighting is just dumbed down token matching and badly designed (if at all designed), when it should be much smarter in alerting you of inconsistencies, and putting relevant content forward. + by colour I don’t necessarily mean literally in colour, bold or italics can serve well.