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Suggestion - B&W color scheme

#1

Hello, although I really love Sublime Text, I find the included color schemes (for syntax highlighting) much too busy and distracting. I’d like to suggest including a plain, black text on white background color scheme that only uses bold to highlight language keywords, etc.

An additional color scheme in the old style green text on black background using bold again to highlight would also be fun.

Personally, I use Python a lot, plus sometimes view html markup. That’s all I’m interested in, although I’m sure including other languages would be good.

I haven’t tried using sublime-syntax yet. I did strip down a tmLanguage file to all B&W, but man, are those files unwieldly :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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#2

I’m not sure I’m understanding you right: Do you want to change the color scheme, or the syntax definition?

  • .tmTheme: defines the colors (it uses the scopes)
  • .sublime-syntax: defines the scopes (this word is a keyword, this letter a punctuation sign, etc)

So, if you want a B&W color scheme, it’s going to be easy to do by yourself. Install this plugin ColorSchemeEditor.

Open which ever file you want, press shift+f12, click on a word, and now you can choose the color, and the style (bold, italic)

<key>settings</key>
<dict>
    <key>foreground</key>
    <string>#3e999f</string>
    <key>fontStyle</key>
    <string>italic bold</string>
</dict>

Here’s basically how it works.

Hope this helps

Matt

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#3

The Vintage Terminal color schemes might be a good starting point for further customizing.

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#4

Great, thanks everyone for the quick replies.

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#5

Look at this: https://github.com/estevanmaito/allblack

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#6

Very nice, thanks for the reply!

Regarding my initial post, I still think having a default style in a single color with bold for keywords and language constructs would be nice. So I will leave it open as a feature request.

On the other hand, now I have several styles to choose from…white text on a black background, old style hacker green on black, and also a color scheme creator program. Overall, this forum has been very helpful :slight_smile:

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#7

The best B&W or monochromatic color scheme, IMO, is “Carbonight” from Daylee Rees: http://daylerees.github.io/

You can install these color schemes with this package: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Dayle%20Rees%20Color%20Schemes

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#8

On a more darker note, in the same package: Carbonight Contrast

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