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@krinkle@mastodon.technology I don't know of anyone using difftastic by default, including me! (I use it >50% of the time though.) I toyed with background colours but I didn't find anything that I really liked. Contrast is hard, and depends on the user's theme. Background colours look bad with syntax highlighting (e.g. red background with blue comment text). It also looked silly due to ignoring whitespace between symbols. It's an interesting space and I'm still experimenting :)

I'm feeling reasonably happy with the light and dark styles of difftastic now: there's a reasonable amount of contrast on both sides. I'm now using ANSI bright colours for the dark theme and it works pretty well. I had to give up on cyan as it's too pale on light backgrounds.

Experimenting with syntax highlighting for difftastic. I'm trying hard to stay within the limited terminal colours. It works everywhere and requires no detection of terminal capabilities or theme. It's a very limited palette though. Using bold for keywords saves a colour.