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For a light color theme with a slightly different take than usual, I would recommend Flatwhite.

The differentiating idea behind it is that for dark syntax themes, it makes sense to have the foreground of text be different colors. In contrast, for light syntax themes, it makes sense to have the background of text be different colors.

Atom: https://github.com/biletskyy/flatwhite-syntax Sublime Text 3: https://github.com/Willamin/flatwhite

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Ooo, I like this. This seems like a close-ish replacement in VSCode but the pic doesn't even exist: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esz.them...

I don't think VS Code actually supports background color styles for syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3429

I ran into this trying to do a Code theme a few months ago. (My favorite light theme -- and I am mostly a light theme person, as I have never believed dark mode was a particularly good idea except for terminal windows -- is the default theme from the all-but-defunct Mac editor Espresso, which used subtle background coloring in some places.)

Thought it looked familiar, and I realized I saw the idea in an old Nikita Propokov screencast. Nice to see him mentioned there and Clojure code as an example.

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