![]() You can download the updated version for NetBeans version here: includes minor tweaks, such as changing the semi-comma character to light gray. See what my color scheme looks like at the bottom of the post. My light color scheme (Netbeans, Textmate and Sublime Text): I am experimenting with a off-white background to slightly reduce contrast and eyestrain. Hence I changed comments to be de-emphasized (gray) as well as any HTML tags (which are less important than the code in views). For me, these would be the keywords, variables and class names. This was mentioned in Garret Dimon's Application Interface Design presentation, and I think it is a good point: Don't highlight every syntactically different part of the code with sharp colors, just the stuff that matters the most. "If everything is important, then nothing is important". Jeff Atwood did some background reading into this and quotes from a study that "When light text is placed on a dark background the text may seem to glow and become blurred this is referred to as halation, and it may make the text harder to read." Subjectively, I find white text on dark backgrounds to be a bit uncomfortable. Personally, I prefer white or off-white with dark text. Full contrast schemes are considered more hard to read, which means that slightly off-white or off-black backgrounds are easier to read. The basic choice is between a dark background and a light background. ![]() The Code Project has a great compilation of the 42 best programming fonts. My second choice is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, which is free and widely available. It looks awesome with ClearType and the zero character is different from the letter O. My font of choice is Consolas (included in Vista/Win7 and available for download). There are two important things to try out in picking the IDE settings that work best for you: 1) the font you use and 2) the color scheme for syntax highlighting.
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