From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Darkening font-lock colors Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:41:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248990091 12906 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 21:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 23:41:24 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 1MWdNI-0004p5-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdNI-0007ll-F6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdND-0007lE-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdN8-0007jx-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60248 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWdN8-0007ju-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:63141) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWdN8-0006DJ-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f193.google.com ([209.85.210.193]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWdN7-0005bq-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: by yxe31 with SMTP id 31so3250412yxe.24 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4muZG3oOfrrDXp06NXmgc5BwP8ikXfEqyJnKPo2yV5E=; b=vgXyBdoPWSse8B+8XCc/thxdi7yvEtSrEM0gFagTpYt47lHQYfT1NBtyH7LZQbESUJ iDBBBiLa9iVot39USTaQKxASsjdBSiIHvMuHBHZdCnK5JfcGy4skM+Zmk4iGem57nGwM 13RUosQQu4AnqWdSX5ougMFIIUb1u2g32u/gw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZTMNsbysDu1k9id9HTdV7lLn1a7fj+YLH4U3U9oVP6iQS9v3uBtWv89n0lcrr7oqJZ R1Aa6AB6qz/4fFmVzxF4m65y1wnoakfpjbTSuMdDkrhUXTuoz0DKr76gboAV9OOwWUaw 8H2s44GyAKOlEgJOWNSg7c4/EQx3N1iJNYXPI= Original-Received: by 10.100.42.19 with SMTP id p19mr1152035anp.15.1248990068186; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:41:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:113424 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:12 PM, 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? > > =C2=A0font-lock-builtin-face: =C2=A0"LightGray" -> "MediumOrchid4" > =C2=A0font-lock-constant-face: "CadetBlue" -> "dark cyan" > =C2=A0font-lock-string-face: =C2=A0 "RosyBrown" -> "VioletRed4" > =C2=A0font-lock-variable-name-face: "DarkGoldenrod" -> "OrangeRed4" > > This does not alter the existing color scheme, except for darkening the > fainter colors. =C2=A0(The dark-background color scheme seems to be fine.= ) I think the colors becomes to similar with your change. I have no problems with the existing colors. Are you using a white backgrou= nd?