Syntax Highlighting Colors

It was better before they removed the colors.

It does seem like they use darker/lighter shades instead of redder/greener/bluer at the same intensity but I don't have the means to check if that's true

The colors used to be very prominent. It was ugly, but more usable than the current dot.

It's probably just aesthetics. Those colors are more commonly used in illustration and design, so they tend to get labeled. There might be some perception involved in there as well as it's easier for our eyes to pick apart the more pastel colors from each other than the darker colors from each other.

Even the "fake" colors are a lot more representative of reality than black and white.

Reminds of "fugi film": the standard development make the colors brighter than reallife. The customers liked that better, even if less accurate.

Maybe people back then want something different because the most common monitor back in the day was a green on black monitor. Having blue is refreshing looks new.

Did you RTFA? It's not about the colour, it's about the contrast.I wonder if the contrast has changed over the years. It could be a worse green today than originally.

the car color thing may be real, but also it may be that people went overboard with color because they could, and then color got boring.For the percent of colors in photos, i m not sure. Older technologies oversaturated colors and probably underrepresented greys (or turned them to red/green) , but maybe newer photo technologies allowed more blues and greys.The cinema thing is real and very annoying to the point where i have to oversaturate all my screens in order to stop seeing

Is there any reason they took the most ugly colours? They could have just used 16 nice colours or?