Consider lightening up some of the darker colours?

[pmonks]

As an old person with aging eyes, I find the dark colours in the dark theme (which I otherwise greatly like) too dark to see. I've had better success with this override file, and was wondering if you might consider adopting these (or something similar) in the default colour scheme?

{
    "globals":
    {
        "line_highlight":    "hsla(210, 13%, 40%, 0.5)",
        "gutter_foreground": "hsl(210, 10%, 30%)"
    },
    "rules":
    [
        {"name":       "Symbol namespaces",
         "scope":      "meta.namespace.symbol, source.symbol punctuation.definition.namespace",
         "foreground": "hsl(210, 10%, 50%)"},
        {"name":       "Metadata",
         "scope":      "meta.metadata, meta.metadata keyword.operator, meta.metadata string, meta.metadata constant, meta.metadata punctuation.definition.constant, meta.metadata punctuation",
         "foreground": "hsl(210, 10%, 50%)"}
    ]
}

Worst case this issue can live here as a worked example for anyone else who experiences the same issue. On my system, this lives in a plain text JSON file at the location: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text/Packages/User/Clojure Sublimed Dark.sublime-color-scheme

[tonsky]

For reference. This is current state:

And this is with your changes applied:

I think I can bring up brightness of line numbers, ns and meta up, like you suggested. I like slight blue tint as well.

I only have a question about current line. In your version, current line is more visible, yes, but the code inside it is way less readable (making line’s bg brighter lowers text to bg contrast). I don’t really want to do this, but I am also curious: does it not bother you? How does it work?

[pmonks]

Yeah I basically can't see the line highlight in the original theme, and that newer one is better (though yeah, might have swung a bit too far the other way).

And to clarify: I didn't spend much time actually carefully tuning these specific colours - I just copied the colour values over from the default Sublime Text theme (which works well for me), then crudely messed with the brightness until I could see the associated elements in Clojure code. Please don't be shy to discard those specific values and come up with ones that fit better into the rest of the Clojure Sublimed theme if you'd like!