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Kalolo is a dark 256-colors scheme for the [kakoune](https://kakoune.org/) editor, designed with usability and consistency in mind.
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Kalolo is a dark 256-colors scheme for the [kakoune](https://kakoune.org/) editor, designed with consistency in mind.
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Features
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Color schemes are often perceived as a matter of taste.
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While this is true in essence, there are still some usability guidelines that may be followed.
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Most of color schemes for text editors show some of the following anti-patterns:
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- themes with too few colors (e.g. the default theme for Eclipse),
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- fancy rainbows which tries to pack so many colors on each lines that it becomes difficult to parse the text visually (e.g. the "one" theme for Atom),
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- use of colors without semantic consistency (e.g. some control-flow keywords are red, some are blue),
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- a lack of understanding of what information are important (e.g. making comments less visible),
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- no visual clue on the current status of the (modal) editor (e.g. grey status bar, single-color cursors).
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Kalolo tries to address those kind of problems.
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- So far, Kalolo only exists as a dark theme (but contributions are welcomed).
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- The design is limited by a compromise with the syntax parsing engine: less keyword types necessarily means less color shades. Adding more keyword types would mean more configuration.
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