Re: Darkening font-lock colors

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

  > 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"
  > 
  > This does not alter the existing color scheme, except for darkening the
  > fainter colors.  (The dark-background color scheme seems to be fine.)

What do they look on a light gray background?  While not the default,
many people use a light gray background (like gray91) because white is
too bright.