Source code colors: Contrast / Readability / Ergonomics

[cranioscopical]

another turbo pascal/c fan here; borland's turbo language tools were amazing when they came out for the pc - they must have raised a generation of programmers.

-mouser (February 10, 2006, 12:17 AM)

When I first bought Turbo Pascal it was about $69.
At the same time Microsoft Pascal was about $400.

The value was so good that I remember being wary lest TPas was some kind of scam.

[allen]

Slightly updated recently, little brighter in a few places . . . still generally prefer light on dark.

[Renegade]

Haven't had time to try these out, but here are some VS schemes:

http://www.winterdom...BColor%2BScheme.aspx

http://jheidt.com/ar...io-color-scheme.aspx

http://www.stefandid...-schemes-and-themes/

I'll need to give these a spin real soon.

(Thanks for providing the motivation in this thread!)

[harmonv]

http://hubel.sfasu.e...research/AHNCUR.html
"Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles"

The above link is from a readability study done in 1997 at Stephen F. Austin State University.