From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Darkening font-lock colors Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:54:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20090731035419.GA32514@tomas> References: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249012101 25663 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 03:48:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 05:48:14 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWj6L-0003TO-OV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWj6L-0005Ja-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWj6G-0005JN-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWj6C-0005Ir-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43387 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWj6C-0005Io-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:53546 helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWj6C-0006G2-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E1DA090003; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:54:19 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113444 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. >=20 > What do people think about making the following changes for the > light-background settings? >=20 > 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 f= or 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 - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKcmrrBcgs9XrR2kYRAj5KAJ9zSpFneddjDAKeT19AMfqhcDMyBwCffrY0 XWl18GjCvh+oVfZi/qk4i4I=3D =3DOm1T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----