Re: bad default faces now

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/3/22 Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Leo <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2010-03-22 05:28 +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> The default faces were changed after Emacs 23.1, and the result is worse, 
>>> IMO.
>>>
>>> I don't care for myself, since I don't use the default faces, but see the
>>> attached screenshot. The faces for the comment, the variable name, and the 
>>> doc
>>> string are all about the same.
>>>
>>> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>>>  of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON
>>> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
>>> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'
>>
>> I also hope that 23.2 will not have the colour scheme it has in 23.1.94.
>> It makes lisp source code visually very difficult to read, for example.
>> May it be possible to invite someone who is good at designing colour
>> themes to contribute or learn from other editor such as textmate?
>
> We discussed this back in last autumn:
>
>  http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/address@hidden/12638321.html
>
> I made an elisp file to help testing new colors. It is available here:
>
>  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/font-lock-color-test.el
>
> I think the idea of inviting someone to create new suggestions for
> colors is good. Could we please then add them to the test file above
> so people can test?
>
>
>

For those with web browsers and JavaScript, there is also this website
which was incidentally posted to the python-mode mailing list a few
hours ago: http://alexpogosyan.com/color-theme-creator/

-- 
Deniz Dogan