Re: Darkening font-lock colors

[tomas]

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 05:12:54PM -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> 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"

FWIW, I had exactly the same problem (especially with strong ambient
light) -- so I did similar changes:

 font-lock-string-face:        brown
 font-lock-variable-name-face: dark orange
 font-lock-comment-face:       dark blue

I seem to focus much on comments whereas I don't seem to care very much for
builtins :-)

I tried your changes and it definitely gets a +1 from me (although I'll
stick to my changes because of the comments).

Regards
- -- tomás
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