Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

+1 Neil Smith’s remarks. I got zinged by this when I first tried dark themes. Entire sections of the interface became illegible when you only set the theme and not the look and feel. Once I got the theme set though… it helped a lot. Now I am pretty happy with my dar theme. I feel like it wo

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

The g18 standard is at least a 4.5:1 ratio for accessibility. I’m pretty poor of sight so i use 19pt, but softer is better to avoid eye burn :) It’s funny, in netbeans I’ve been using the standard theme only because java looks great in drakula but some other langs need work. In intellij i’ve be

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

On 2018-01-19 11:00 AM, David Cogen wrote: On 01/19/2018 10:44 AM, Thomas Wolf wrote: Highest contrast does not always translate to highest legibility.  When lettering is small (as it tends to be in many developers' editor), a white font on a black background leads to lesser legibility due to

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

On 2018-01-19 10:55 AM, Neil C Smith wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 at 14:07 David Cogen > wrote: "Lack of contrast"? Let's start with the editor window: light gray text on dark gray background?  Also, don't forget that editor themes and the look-and-feel (Da

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

On 01/19/2018 10:44 AM, Thomas Wolf wrote: Highest contrast does not always translate to highest legibility.  When lettering is small (as it tends to be in many developers' editor), a white font on a black background leads to lesser legibility due to overpowering background color.  Out of curio

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 at 14:07 David Cogen wrote: > "Lack of contrast"? Let's start with the editor window: light gray text on > dark > gray background? > Also, don't forget that editor themes and the look-and-feel (Dark Metal) are related but not the same thing. In terms of editor themes (fonts

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:06 AM, David Cogen wrote: > > "Lack of contrast"? Let's start with the editor window: light gray text on > dark gray background? That's low contrast, and very hard to read. My > feeling is, at least one of foreground color or background color should > almost always be fu

Re: How to undo dark metal theme?

On 01/18/2018 03:58 PM, Thomas Wolf wrote: Not sure what lack of contrast you’re talking about with Darcula. To my eyes everything that is of interest or always in my face has good contrast - to the extent possible and still distinguish between different types of text (keywords, comments, etc