"Negative" colors for syntaxes

Rosseiro · Post by **Rosseiro** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:20 am

Hi, I'd like to suggest the possibility to "toggle negative colors": this is why some people prefer dark backgrounds, and the syntax files come based on a white background, so they'll use darker colors for the keywords, text, selected text, and so on.

I love Textpad and use it to edit plain text files, including html and css. I have a hard time finding the most suitable light colors to fit with the black background I chose, and I have to edit each one of the individual items inside the document classes under the preferences.

So, if we could "toggle negative colors", the white background would automatically become black, the green keywords would become orange, and so on for the opposite colors in the color wheel. Much more practical than setting up a new config manually!

Tks

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:03 pm

Built-in support for 'Solarized' themes would be a nice way to achieve this.

Rosseiro · Post by **Rosseiro** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:09 pm

Something 'quite exactly' like that!

by the way, what is the font used inside that 'yin-yang' pic?

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:32 pm

I think the font that's used there is likely to be Pragmata Pro.

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:11 pm

I'd have to disagree with you there, SteveH. Compare the N (in ENOENT) in the Solarized screenshot with the N in PragmataPro. Or the w (in windowset).

I think it's Letter Gothic.

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:29 pm

Looking at it again I agree. The 'l' is also very distinctive and doesn't match any of my usual fixed width fonts.

Edit: The best match I've come up with so far is Letter Gothic:

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:04 am

That's what I said before

Rosseiro · Post by **Rosseiro** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:26 am

Thanks people!
Hope they implement something like what I suggested