The minions, ever vigilant for opportunities to engage in another skirmish in the light vs. dark theme war, brought this to my attention and insisted that I run with it.
Maybe it’s time to make another #emacs color scheme. I need to do my part to fight the 20 year olds creating all this low contrast garbage. Code comments should not be low contrast. Nothing should be low contrast for that matter.
— Ryan (@Pixel_Outlaw) February 25, 2023
It’s not really a light/dark theme issue but it is related. It’s possible, of course, to have low contrast text with a light theme but you almost always see it with dark themes. A horrible example is dark gray on black or—even worse—dark blue on black. It’s essentially unreadable but some folks think it looks cool. Those of us with aging eyes are not as enthusiastic.
The minions are jumping up and down with glee about that tweet but maybe we should stop feeding the trolls: quit rendering low contrast text already.