The other night I was enjoying a sound, dreamless sleep when at 3 AM there was pounding on my bedroom door and the minions started jumping up and down on my bed. “Mrrflx. Wha? Wha’s happening?” It turns out the Minions had seen another dark theme and were aching for a cage match.
In the morning, after coffee, I took a look at the theme and had to agree the Minions had a point. Take a look. Maybe it’s just my old eyes but those screen shots are borderline illegible. I just don’t get this obsession some folks have with low contrast dark themes. Those people will claim that they’re easier on the eyes but research says otherwise. And, if you must have a dark theme, there’s still no reason to forego legibility.
It’s almost as if there’s a secret contest, that most of us aren’t privy to, to see how close to illegible you can make your theme and still be able to get work done. Of course, the contestants are going to get wrinkles from all that squinting.
As an afterword, I should remind everyone that Red Meat Friday posts are supposed to be humorous. In particular, although I’ve made a lot of fun of the Creamsody themes, we should all thank jasonm23 for his work and for sharing it with us. It’s just another example of Emacs letting us have it our way. Even if we can’t read the result.