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I created this theme because I wanted something unique that fully utilized VSCodium's ability to provide semantic token highlighting. I have found that most popular dark themes lack proper contrast to be able to differentiate between UI components, barely(?) meet WCAG guidelines for accessibility, and are very bland. I am not a fan of the general washed out look that most dark themes tend to have.

Although I created the theme simply for my own use, now that it is public and published to the extension repository, I feel a bit of a sense of obligation to correct the issues this project has.

The main problem with this project, as I see it, is the lack of maintainability. I did not plan for there to be a few thousand lines of color directives. As such, I kind of just added, changed and removed things as I went until I liked it a bit better. After many iterations, it has become a bit of a mess.

I would like to clean up the main theme config file, removing duplicate entries and conflicting rules. For example, textmate rules tend to be far more precise, but they are overridden by "editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations". This is a problem, because it is very difficult to tell when a rule will actually be applied or whether it will be overridden.

This issue will remain open until the repository is in a proper state. A non-exhaustive list is as follows:

• Duplicate entries should be removed
• Conflicting rules removed and replaced with textMate rules when possible
• Consider building a parser and generator
• Begin documenting changes in the CHANGELOG.md

Suggestions are welcome. If anyone uses this theme and would like to help out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!