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I'm not sure how to do all of that, but the bit about reducing the dynamic range resonates. I think syntax highlighting should exist to highlight three categories of syntax:

a) comments. What is never run?

b) literals. What is just plain data?

c) punctuation -- mostly so it can be deemphasized.

Sample of my minimalist 'scheme': http://imgur.com/NrrS9.png



Which brings us almost full-circle to early monochromatic highlighting, where you didn't have many options besides adding bold and italic to the mix.


Your scheme reminds me of CGA colour palettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter


I think different colors/shades for different types and highlighting profiling data for functions could be useful also.


Funny you should mention profiling; I was just reading http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html today. The Go profiler seems extremely impressive.




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