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| 15 | <div class="date">31/12 2019</div> | ||
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| 17 | Color Conundrum | ||
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| 20 | <p>This piece aims to highlight (pun intended) some of the | ||
| 21 | reasons behind my <a href="https://files.nerdypepper.tech/bF.png">color | ||
| 22 | free</a> editor setup.</p> | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | <p>Imagine highlighting an entire book because <em>all</em> of it is | ||
| 25 | important. That is exactly what (most) syntax highlighting | ||
| 26 | does. It is difficult for the human eye to filter out noise | ||
| 27 | in rainbow barf. Use color to draw attention, not diverge | ||
| 28 | it.</p> | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | <p>At the same time, a book devoid of color is <em>boring!</em> What | ||
| 31 | is the takeaway from this 10 line paragraph? What are the | ||
| 32 | technical terms used?</p> | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | <p>Prose and code are certainly different, but the fickle | ||
| 35 | minded human eye is the same. The eye constantly looks for a | ||
| 36 | frame of reference, a focal point. It grows tired when it | ||
| 37 | can’t find one.</p> | ||
| 38 | |||
| 39 | <p>The following comparison does a better job of explaining | ||
| 40 | (none, ample and over-the-top highlighting, from left to | ||
| 41 | right):</p> | ||
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| 43 | <p><a href="https://files.nerdypepper.tech/lt.png"><img src="https://files.nerdypepper.tech/lt.png" alt="hi.png" /></a></p> | ||
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| 45 | <p>Without highlighting (far left), it is hard to differentiate | ||
| 46 | between comments and code! The florid color scheme (far | ||
| 47 | right) is no good either, it contains too many attention | ||
| 48 | grabbers. The center sample is a healthy balance of both. | ||
| 49 | Function calls and constants stand out, and repetitive | ||
| 50 | keywords and other noise (<code>let</code>, <code>as</code>) are mildly dimmed | ||
| 51 | out. Comments and non-code text (sign column, status text) | ||
| 52 | are dimmed further.</p> | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | <p>I’ll stop myself before I rant about color contrast and | ||
| 55 | combinations.</p> | ||
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