Re: Darkening font-lock colors

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/7/30 Chong Yidong <address@hidden>:
> While doing some testing, I went back to the default white background,
> and noticed that some of the font-lock colors have rather poor contrast.
> I'm not sure if this is partly due to anti-aliasing, but it sure makes
> the text difficult to read.
>
> What do people think about making the following changes for the
> light-background settings?
>
>  font-lock-builtin-face:  "LightGray" -> "MediumOrchid4"
>  font-lock-constant-face: "CadetBlue" -> "dark cyan"
>  font-lock-string-face:   "RosyBrown" -> "VioletRed4"
>  font-lock-variable-name-face: "DarkGoldenrod" -> "OrangeRed4"
>
> This does not alter the existing color scheme, except for darkening the
> fainter colors.  (The dark-background color scheme seems to be fine.)
>

I agree that the current faces are a bit too bright and I'm in favor
of this change. Someone said that the colors become too similar to one
another with this change, but I don't agree. Also, the "problem" of
too similar-looking faces already exists anyways, e.g.
font-lock-preprocessor-face vs. font-lock-builtin-face or
font-lock-doc-face vs. font-lock-string-face. It is more important to
be able to see the actual text than having different faces for
different kinds of text.

As a side note, I don't think many people would even notice this
change unless they were explicitly told about it.

-- 
Deniz Dogan