Cool & Clear

A tastefully minimal, high contrast, light-mode syntax coloring scheme for Sublime Text.

Cool & Clear is...

Tastefully Minimal

Many color schemes use a large variety of colors for various syntactic and semantic elements, resulting in code listings that look quite festive, but which do not necessarily aid comprehension. Cool & Clear keeps it simple by using only a few different colors:

• Green for comments
• Blue for language keywords
• Purple for literals, such as strings and numbers
• Red-on-red for syntax errors (which in practice will rarely be seen)
• Black for everything else

High Contrast

Many color schemes use text colors that do not contrast well with the background, especially for comments. Some schemes go so far as to make comments nearly invisible! Cool & Clear keeps code easy to read by using full white for the background, and sufficiently dark colors for text.

Light-Mode

There seem to be more light-on-dark color schemes available than the reverse. But I prefer to work with dark text on a light background.

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Installation

Via Package Control

1. In Sublime Text, invoke Tools > Command Palette in the menu bar
2. Select Package Control: Install Package in the command palette
3. Type "Cool & Clear" in the search bar, and click on "Cool & Clear" in the list of results

Manual Installation

1. Download the Cool & Clear.sublime-color-scheme file
2. Invoke Sublime Text > Settings... > Browse Packages... (Mac) or Preferences > Browse Packages... (Windows) to open the Packages folder
3. Move Cool & Clear.sublime-color-scheme into the User subfolder

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Copyright © 2022 Karl von Laudermann. MIT Licensed.