Code highlighting is wonderful, but we're having too much of it

Anyone know of any sublime themes which take this less is more philosophy to heart? Tending to agree with this for the most part.

I find the usefulness of syntax highlighting more or less to be a kind of always on linter in that I can see when I make a typo in that if and can see where I'm missing a closing quote.

I dont know what the optimum middle ground would be but I think I'm going to play around with some different sets tomorrow and see if I can strike the right balance.

I think he has a point especially regarding underlining and highlighting by coloring the background of words, which can often be hard to distinguish. I am quite used to IntelliJ's Darcula theme though and like most of the defaults there.

Does anyone know if there was ever done some serious research on this?