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"Negative" colors for syntaxes

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:20 am
by Rosseiro
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

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:03 pm
by SteveH
Built-in support for 'Solarized' themes would be a nice way to achieve this.

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:09 pm
by Rosseiro
Something 'quite exactly' like that! :D

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

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:32 pm
by SteveH
I think the font that's used there is likely to be Pragmata Pro.

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:11 pm
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:29 pm
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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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:04 am
by ak47wong
That's what I said before :)

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:26 am
by Rosseiro
Thanks people!
Hope they implement something like what I suggested :)