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 curiosity, what point size do you use? I use
Monaco, 12pt. Yellow/amber works better with smaller fonts, imho, and white
works better with larger fonts. In the old days, my eyes were very happy when
I got to move from a green-on-black CRT to an amber-on-black one.
I use Monospace 12pt. Although I do prefer a dark theme, (and personally I find
pure white on pure black very readable even at 12 pt), I found there were just
too many separate colors to tweak to adjust them as I preferred, so I gave up
and went back to netbeans default "metal". That is not a criticism of the
Darkula theme, just a frustration of the entire color customization process of
netbeans. It is just too complicated, with too many things to adjust and it is
not clear what option controls what specifically.
Besides, almost every application nowadays uses a light theme. Even if I somehow
manage to customize Netbeans to a dark theme that I really like I will still
have to live with firefox and the many other apps I use on a database. So I
decided to just give up and accept the defaults, (and concentrate on getting
some actual work done!)
