i don't see enough people with one of the best tool improvements i've ever made for reverse engineering, so i had to write a blog post about it!

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

your hex editor should color-code bytes

@simonomi In my #Apple_II emulator, I use different colors for ranges 00-3F, 40-7F, 80-BF, C0-FF which makes it a lot easier to identify ASCII characters and highlight where the final character of a string has the high bit set. I also have special dimmed colors for 00 and values that often represent spaces. Having used these colors for a while, I can't imagine looking at hex dumps in monochrome again.