"Negative" colors for syntaxes

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Rosseiro
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"Negative" colors for syntaxes

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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
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Post by SteveH »

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

Something 'quite exactly' like that! :D

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

I think the font that's used there is likely to be Pragmata Pro.
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Post by ak47wong »

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.
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Post by SteveH »

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:

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Post by ak47wong »

That's what I said before :)
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Post by Rosseiro »

Thanks people!
Hope they implement something like what I suggested :)
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