Re: [PATCH 1/4] rcfile: accept prefix "lit" to make a color brighter without bolding it

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 13-06-2020 om 03:05 schreef Saagar Jha:
> I was referring to its meaning as “intoxicated” or “cool”
> (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lit). Those meanings are not
> really negative but surely not what you meant, so I just thought I’d give you 
> a
> heads-up if you hadn’t heard it before.

Well, I don't think it's a problem if some people would read "litred" as
"drunken red".  :)  It still gets the meaning across: all-out red.

> And yes, I did share the concern about the two looking similar; I figured that
> was probably part of why you went with “lit” in the first place. Sadly, I 
> don’t
> have a solution that brings back that property but I do think that “light” is
> still better in spite of that.

"Light" being so similar to "bright" was a reason to choose "lit", but also
"lightblue" not really being a light color: it is an intense dark blue color.

I've considered "max".  But red, maxred, blue, maxblue, green, maxgreen,
yellow, maxyellow, cyan, maxcyan, magenta, maxmagenta...  It does convey
that it is an intenser color, but not that it is lighter, shinier.  So...
"light" it will have to be.

Benno

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