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This makes me think of my favorite vscode theme: Default High Contrast. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/accessibility You can see it there if you scroll down.

It reminds me of old vector graphic games like Tempest. I don't know much about design, but I feel like it's "harder" to contrast with black than white, and so the bright lines of color against the black background actually give me happy feelings. Weird, but I genuinely think it improves my coding experience.

I like it so much I've been slowly porting the theme to Emacs: https://github.com/komali2/Emacs-VSCode-Default-High-Contras...

When I have some spare time I'd like to sit down and actually learn more about design concepts around these kinds of dark high contrast visualizations, and old vector graphics. Ideally I'd like to learn how to incorporate them into my own web and game design... one day!



That’s also my favorite theme! I love the simplicity. If only they had a slightly less contrasty version of it, I’d use it 100% of the time.




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