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Most readable, low eye-strain colorscheme?

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I suffered a pretty bad concussion and ever since I have become quite sensitive while looking at my screen. I wanted to know if you all have suggestions for readable colorschemes that won't strain my eyes over a long period of time. Something pleasing and easy on the eyes.

I use neovim and JetBrains IDEs.

Thanks!

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The Modus Themes, which are included with Emacs, are great. These are high contrast themes adhering to WCAG AAA.

They have been ported to Vim and VSCode, but IDK about JetBrains.

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes

https://github.com/ishan9299/modus-theme-vim

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Binx.mod...

Not a direct answer, but last year I got a 13" eink second screen and it's been the best investment I made for my eye health since getting glasses. The difference was noticeable from the start, at the end of a day without the eink screen my eyes feel tired, similar to sand in your eyes. After a day of using the ink screen my eyes feel a lot better, still relatively tired, but like the tired you get at the end of a day not in front of your computer.

Here's the screen that I got, it's pricey, but in my case was well worth it: https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-e-ink-paperlike-hd-f...

High contrast themes are the only thing that have worked for me (black background, bright foreground). I also use keyboard shortcuts in my IDE to increase/decrease the fontsize if I'm really having trouble focusing on text.

Although I have noticed that no matter what I do nothing beats eye strain better than taking a break away from the screen, if that's possible.

I need the opposite of what solarized tries to do. So default VsCode themes are ok, light/dark depending on the room brightness. To be honest, with dark themes almost everything works, I prefer Dracula still.

Aesthetically I enjoy the "almost monochrome" themes, but more colors just work better for me.

Sorry to hear about the concussion

Have you tried solarised themes https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

Not sure if this theme will cater to your specific needs, I hope so.

Give everforest a try. They have both light and dark themes with a few variants for each. https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest

Solarized dark has been the easiest on my eyes in both light and dark rooms

Gruv box for neovim

+1 it comes with 3 contrast settings

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