Mute all colours a bit

Mute all colours a bit

[mrBuran]

Especially plain diffs and magit diff look very bright for me, i had to change them to more "flat"..

Having looked at the colour palette in the source code, I think there are only few colours I need to override, especially mute down green+4 and make the background a bit darker. So, manual overriding will work for me.

[impaktor]

Github recently introduced a "discussion" feature, (example: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions ), that can be activated in the github repo settings. I'm thinking if that was to be turned on, then the bug tracker wouldn't have to be used for issues that are questions / discussions.

[bbatsov]

I'll enable it soon. For someone to notice I also have to update the contribution templates, as everyone goes to tickets by default. :-)

There's no built-in way to mute/brighten all colours, but I guess it'd be trivial to just modify the list with the color definitions.

[ksjogo]

My customzied version https://github.com/ksjogo/labburn-theme/ has more muted colours and gives you a lightness const which you could tune to your liking as all colours are calculated in lab colour space.
It also has all/most bold attributes removed as these look too bright imo.

[impaktor]

@ksjogo the png linked in your labburn page gives "Cannot proxy the given URL", would be interesting to see some examples of what it looks like.

My customzied version https://github.com/ksjogo/labburn-theme/ has more muted colours and gives you a lightness const which you could tune to your liking as all colours are calculated in lab colour space.
It also has all/most bold attributes removed as these look too bright imo.

Thanks, the colours indeed look more muted. Also, you are right about the bold faces, I think it's better to have them as normal.

[bbatsov]

@ksjogo Btw, it seems to me it would have been easier for you to just have defined your new colours and used (setq zenburn-override-colors-alist ... with them. Then you wouldn't need to fork and track the upstream theme. I've pondered at some point adding some functionality to defined derived themes (e.g. like what exists in Solarized), but in the end I opted to keep Zenburn as simple as possible.