Related: high- versus low-contrast. Most colour schemes are low-contrast, and I haven’t the foggiest idea why, because I’ve always hated that, and find it makes no sense whatsoever (zero) as a decision. I used to use molokai (dark, fairly high contrast); a few years ago I decided to build a new minimal, light, high contrast one from scratch, which I called “bland”, inspired by the printed code of yesteryear. Paired w…
I think the "molokai" theme mentioned a couple times might actually be "monokai" getting autocorrected. This is probably better known as "the Sublime Text 2 default theme" to most.