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Add new color theme: VSCodium Dark

Henri K requested to merge henrik/syntax-highlighting-fork:new-theme into master

Theme is similar to default “Dark” and "Dark+" themes used in VS Code and VSCodium. "VS Code" is Microsoft's trademark so it's probably better to use this name instead. About their brand name usage: https://code.visualstudio.com/brand#brand-name. VS Code repo where original themes are is MIT-licensed.

Not all contexts have same color as original mainly due differences in code parsing and because language specific settings are limited. Adding more of these can offer better match for the original if that is wanted. At the moment, there's definitions mainly for CSS / SCSS, Markdown, Javascript and Typescript. I've tested it with different languages and it's still highly usable.

Theme also has some other slight enhancements / distinctions from original like:

  • Usage of bold and cursive font variants for some contexts.
  • Visible separator between same color text area and background. Original doesn't have any which makes it hard to see where the actual text area starts.
  • Kate uses for highlighting of current line a background color instead of lines at top and bottom of line.
  • Some colors are slightly enhanced when selected to offer better contrast.

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