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Re: Darkening font-lock colors
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Darkening font-lock colors |
Date: |
Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:37:08 -0700 (PDT) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> >>> Suggestions welcome. I'm afraid I don't have the time to tinker around
> >>> finding an optimal color scheme---I just wanted to fix the legibility
> >>> problem. If you can come up with something better, let us know.
> >
> > I think there are two essential things to cover:
> >
> > - Readability, ie luminosity color contrast.
> > - Color distinguishability.
>
> Yes, distinguishability is an important thing, and the current colors
> lack it. font-lock-builtin is indistinguishable from font-lock-string-face,
> and font-lock-variable is indistinguishable from font-lock-comment
> because generally dark colors are indistinguishable from black
> foreground color as can be seen on the screenshot below.
>
> I propose to use Magenta3 for font-lock-builtin, PaleVioletRed3 for
> font-lock-string and return font-lock-variable back to DarkGoldenrod.
>
> These colors are:
>
> 1. Readable;
> 2. Clearly distinguishable from other colors;
> 3. Close to original colors.
>
> This is a comparison chart of 3 color schemes: Emacs22, current colors
> in CVS, and proposed new colors:
Thanks for doing this, if you are looking for opinions: your way is
better that both the current CVS and emacs22.
- Re: Darkening font-lock colors, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/02
- Re: Darkening font-lock colors, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/08/02
- Re: Darkening font-lock colors, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/02
- Re: Darkening font-lock colors, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/08/03
- Re: Darkening font-lock colors, Miles Bader, 2009/08/03
- RE: Darkening font-lock colors, Drew Adams, 2009/08/03
- Re: Darkening font-lock colors, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/03
- Re: Darkening font-lock colors, Daniel Clemente, 2009/08/03
- RE: Darkening font-lock colors, Drew Adams, 2009/08/03