A beautiful syntax theme that helps focus on the important and avoids being distracted by multitudes of styles and (signal) colors.

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Principles

Minimal highlighting, just 5 classes:

1. Strings
2. All statically known constants (numbers, keywords, boolean, etc)
3. Global definitions
4. Standard language keywords (def, if, else, etc)
5. Comments

Comments highlighting

Comments are clearly visible - unlike in many other syntax themes! I think if there are comments we should see and read them first.

Readability / contrast

For good readability text has contrast 6:1 and it is consistent for all colors. Contrast calculated with HCL color model. Secondary color contrast is 2.5:1

Supported languages

• Clojure
• CSS
• Elixir
• GitHub Markdown
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• XML
• YAML

Install

From the command line:

apm install handsome-light-syntax

If the command line isn't your thing:

• Go to Settings > Install
• Search for handsome-light-syntax and click Install
• Go to Settings > Themes and choose Handsome Light from the dropdown menu
• Happy coding! ❤️

Thanks

Forked from the (inactive) Chestnut Light Atom syntax theme by Dmitry Biletskyy.

Thanks also to Ferdinand Vogler for the excellent native-ui UI theme that plays exceptionally well with this syntax theme.