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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.

I'm still trying to find a colour scheme I like for my diff tool. I need two different styles: added code should be more prominent than moved code. ANSI colours are extremely limited, so I tried using green / green background. Using bold and bright green seems to work better.

"it’s safer to add or remove classes on a specific HTML node than to add or remove styles in a class that applies on many elements" A defence of utility-first CSS, and how semantic classes can convey less information: