Alfred R. BaudischApr 28, 2024

Experimenting with two minimal syntax highlighting themes with at maximum 3 different colors and minimal styling.

Reason? I have a gut feeling that the spectrum of colors out of a "unicorn puking rainbows" of my main theme (Atom One Dark customized) is making me dizzy and making my eyes confused lately (3rd screenshot).

Lately when I'm reading code, my eyes "jump" and get "crossed out" which does not happen when I'm reading monochromatic text articles/books, for example.

Show threadAlfred R. BaudischApr 28, 2024

Minimal dark theme alternatives.

But I'm leaning towards the 1st version of it, with just a color for strings and another for comments, the rest all plain light gray text (3rd screenshot).

Show threadAlex (moved to @alexmu@mastod)Apr 28, 2024
@alfredbaudisch back when I was using intellij, I created a custom theme based on the one in @robpike's acme. It only highlighted strings and comments in different colours. The rest was semantic highlighting in a combination of italics, bolds and underlines. Granted, I may have taken it a bit too far with the underlining, but C# has a lot of scopes :)
Show threadAlfred R. BaudischApr 28, 2024
@alexmu got any screenshots of the theme?
Show threadAlex (moved to @alexmu@mastod)
@alfredbaudisch I don't sadly. It used the acme color scheme and had something like italic for params, bold for methods and class names, italic underline for fields, bold underline for static fields
Apr 28, 2024 at 10:28pmWeb