From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: solarized
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:38:39 +0200 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <87wo0uazy7.fsf@protesilaos.com> (Protesilaos Stavrou's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:27:44 +0300")
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Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:
> On another note, do we really need to strictly conform with the
> 16-colour palette?
Batsov's Solarized gives you total of 32 colors. I certainly don't want to see
all 32 colors at once in the gui :-). Anyway 16 of those are ment for
extreme cases, and are just shades of eight accented colors, ligher and darker.
If those are not enough for some extreme case, user can always do what
they do now, specify rgb value directly; but for *most* part, hopefully
16 colors would be enough. Nobody said it has to be enough for
*everybody everywhere*.
> In my experience, 16 colours is too limited of a set to design bespoke,
> usable, and pleasing interfaces that match the wide array of needs an
> Emacs user has.
Design literature on contrary says something in lines of "less is more",
both when it comes to color and form.
Too many colors and you get rainbow. Look at dired+ screenshot I
attached. Every "property" is coded in different color, and it just
looks horrible when put together.
Another subject, similar to gui theme colors, is syntax highlighting. Too much
syntax highlighting can be as detrimental as none, see for example this paper:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d14b/edf3f58080ecf7a92f60746371b894a7bc08.pdf
and this screenshot:
https://imgur.com/zhCs4Bv
Maybe some thoughts here:
https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-14 3:48 solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 8:29 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 9:14 ` solarized Yuri Khan
2020-09-15 10:16 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 13:39 ` solarized Theodor Thornhill
2020-09-15 14:05 ` solarized Gerry Agbobada
2020-09-15 14:40 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 16:26 ` Theme generator Arthur Miller
2020-09-15 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 20:44 ` Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 1:49 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Tim Cross
2020-09-17 0:25 ` chad
2020-09-17 14:25 ` Theme generator Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 5:03 ` Theme generator (was: solarized) Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 20:28 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-15 20:50 ` solarized Praharsh Suryadevara
2020-09-16 5:05 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-16 8:27 ` solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-16 13:38 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-09-17 3:57 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-17 7:53 ` solarized Gian Uberto Lauri
2020-09-17 15:56 ` solarized Drew Adams
2020-09-18 4:08 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 4:08 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 16:44 ` solarized Drew Adams
2020-09-17 14:11 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 23:39 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-18 4:13 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-18 5:49 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-18 6:43 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 13:06 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 3:53 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-15 11:26 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-15 12:15 ` solarized Elias Mårtenson
2020-09-15 12:56 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-16 1:30 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-16 10:21 ` solarized Göktuğ Kayaalp
2020-09-16 12:53 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-16 22:09 ` solarized Tim Cross
2020-09-17 14:29 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-18 13:32 ` solarized Stefan Kangas
2020-09-18 15:53 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-18 16:03 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-19 4:00 ` solarized Richard Stallman
2020-09-20 20:18 ` solarized Bozhidar Batsov
2020-09-15 12:05 ` WCAG AAA and Emacs themes Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-15 20:22 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
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2020-09-16 18:07 solarized Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-09-17 14:55 ` solarized Arthur Miller
2020-09-17 15:27 ` solarized Arthur Miller
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