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Finally an introduction that has screenshots which don't remind you of the 70's.

Fonts and color schemes do matter, specially nowadays with the likes of Sublime and Textmate. Even more so for new users.

This is one of the most beautiful theme I've come across, and the one I am currently using:

Interestingly, I use Soothe (https://github.com/jasonm23/emacs-soothe-theme) also by the same guy, which is also one of the most beautiful themes to ever grace one of my editors.

Any reason why you guys chose these themes other than it looks nice? :)

Solarized seems to be the de facto theme these days. I always wanted a theme that had some kind of "science" behind it. It also looks pretty good.

Indeed, I used Soothe for a while too. Loved that as well.

If you want to preserve your vision, you probably want to change those colours. You need dark text on light background.