> the styling used for comments (which is normally de-emphasised) And that’s wrong. Syntax highlighting should be emphasising comments, not making them almost

> the styling used for comments (which is normally de-emphasised) And that’s wrong. Syntax highlighting should be emphasising comments, not making them almost invisible. But some colour schemes do get it foolishly wrong, and the only reason I can think this might happen is because their authors write the wrong sorts of comments, comments that largely shouldn’t be written. But proper comments are at least as important as the code. As for “normally”, that doesn’t match my observations. I’d say the significant majority are just different without obviously increasing or decreasing notice—though this is often inherently mild emphasis. Very few clearly increase it, and they’re mostly more conservative schemes that are less frivolous about changing colours.