Getting into Emacs slowly ft. Everblush Colorscheme

It's just doom but well i've started building from scratch. :D

Pretty

Why such low contrast to comments? It makes hard to read them, marking them as not as important as the rest, when it’s the opposite.

This! So many themes do this, and I absolutely hate it! Fortunately, it's easy to override `font-lock-comment-face`, but it's annoying to have to do so with so *many* otherwise very nice themes!

Could you share your config

Tell me the right contrast ratio and I will update my own theme accordingly

It's just default doom Emacs with everblush colorscheme

Ok I'd try to improve it.

Some people like that, its all personal opinion. That's the beauty of personalization :)

How did you get the frame on the left and it's fun functionality?

Great work, looks solid.

It's done with imagemagick the background and shadows

Using doom and starting from scratch are mutually-exclusive. Doom pulls in a ton of packages.

My 2c: the code is source of truth and comments are just supplementary. But hey, to each their own

Prot’s modus themes are a great reference for this sort of thing. He put a huge emphasis on accessibility and the contrast ratio is on point (if I remember correctly they have a minimum of 7:1 for all colors).

The code is not the source of truth, as it only tells you what the code *is* doing. Generally one is more interested in what the code is *supposed* to do, what the original programmer *intended* it to do, *why* it was written, and so on. Most of the time you read code because it is (1) wrong / buggy, (2) lacking, or (3) behaves weirdly, counter to your expectation. Rarely will code without documentation yield an answer to the primary questions in such situations. Reading code as if it is the source of truth is a bit like taking apart a machine to understand it, rather than reading the manual+blueprints penned by the designer. Occasionally it is a useful learning exercise, or simply a necessity. But to suggest it's the first and foremost approach an engineer should take when working on a project would be quite ridiculous.

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you mean this post belong to emacsporn subreddit ?

Yes, or /r/unixporn

Hmm, nah i don't like unixporn like before now

mhmmmmm

Looks nice.

7:1 seems to be the accessibility standard. I will make sure that my faces are as close to this as I can get. I admit that my preference has always been low-contrast comments but I am hoping people can enjoy my little theme.

I think that is eww Elkowars wacky widget

I was just remembering seeing this comment a few days ago, when I was watching Prot's recent video about his new ef themes. In it, he specifically addresses the readability of comments [here](https://youtu.be/h7VOd7CVz10?t=164). I'm glad there are so many of us that actually value comments.

Because code comments are secondary information. The lower the contrast, the less pronounced these less important information is, and the more your focus goes to the actual code.