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Apophis Monolith Theme Change Log

Engine: VSCode Themes Master v. 1.12.253 - Update: 2022-04-19 19:16:01

Note 1: This Changelog is for the whole Monolith Suite, not just for this specific Theme.

Note 2: [Development] and [UI Manager] sections in Changelog are addressed to the developer to remind him of any important changes that occurred during the writing of the code and do not always concern improvements made to the extension or to the theme.

Last added fonts

Note: Fonts marked with a symbol ⭐ have a high readability at 10px, or have a size of 9px-12px such as to occupy the space of common fonts at 10px and always guarantee high readability.

[1.1.199]

  • [Theme] Revised HCUI global color parameters (less saturation and opacity) to obtain more contrast on hover / active elements.
  • [Theme] Dark Matter Suite: revised the menu foreground configuration array parameters due to some sequential colorimetric calculations that had generated too bright and light colors;;
  • [Theme] Revised inactive foreground and focused/unfocused active/inactive foreground focused/unfocused active/inactive bacgrounds and colors for all standard themes to improve readability on a wider range of monitors.
  • [Readme] Improved Fonts Table: added Font Preview button (🅵). At this time system uses ProgrammingFonts.org to show font appearance, but not all fonts are presents on site. In the coming months I will try to create a site that offers the possibility to visually compare the various fonts in different sizes.
  • [Readme] Added some new fonts and revised options for script fonts to add in settings.ini;
  • [Development] Changed Badges Provider vsmarketplacebadge.apphb.com to vsmarketplacebadges.dev, due to a temporary badges issue.
  • [Development] Fixed Fake UI previews: gutter/line realignment, addedd "line with errors" and "file with errors" example, removed random position for Welcome page, increased "editor" height;
  • [Development] Improved Statistics Table readability;
  • [Development] Added Down Major / Minor / Patch Ver. to step down version of themes for testing.

[1.1.196]

  • [Readme] Improved Fonts Table: added Google Search button (🅶) (if the link for the font page no longer works) and added information if the font is Bitmap (🅱);
  • [Readme] Revised some parameters and ratings of Fonts.
  • [Development] Improved Poweshell Commands / Output messages;

[1.1.195]

I apologize to those of you who use the HCUI versions of the themes as you will have to set it up again due to the name change.

  • [Theme] Added Hearthstone theme color.
  • [Theme] Contrary to what I said about the Opal sub-theme, and tanks to configuration arrays reworking, I decided to introduce the HCUI version for it too. Obviously the theme will reflect the characteristics of the standard Opal sub-theme, but, possibly, with a proportionally greater readability on monitors that do not comply with the sRGB standard and/or at a resolution lower than FullHD;
  • [Development] Introduced handling of font rendering problems;
  • [Development] Improved Previews Control Monitor (Console Log Monitor) messages output in JS and PHP engines;
  • [Development] Improved HCUI config customization. I have reworked the construction arrays of the HCUI sub-themes and, for this reason, you may find differences in both the name of the theme and, probably, also in the colors compared to previous HCUI versions. This change was necessary to allow me to have more control over the global parameters for the optimization of the HCUI theme subset as well as in the standard versions;
  • [Development] Improved fonts previews distribution over all Fake UI previews;
  • [Development] Fake UI has been conformed to the VSCode UI, to get previews closer to the appearance of the new interface;
  • [Development] Fixed randomization of Fake UI;
  • [Readme] Added some new fonts (see Last added fonts), revised some parameters of the existing ones.

[1.1.193]

  • [Readme] Added ⭐ (star) symbol on fonts with 5.0 readability rating at 10px.

[1.1.192]

  • [Theme] Monolith Suite - added Opal sub-themes, with extra dark background and low token colors saturation for use in dark rooms, and, for this reason, there is no HCUI version of Opal sub-themes (it would not make sense);
  • [Theme] Fixed and added some colors;
  • [Development] Added Relative Alpha and Percent Relative Alpha calculation capabilities;
  • [Development] Added Relative Saturation and Percent Relative Saturation calculation capabilities;
  • [Development] Added function get_relative_value(...) to improve the flexibility of the themes configuration params: up to the previous version, relative values ​​and percentage values ​​could only be calculated for direct color modification and not for saturation and transparency changes which accepted only absolute values.
  • [Readme] Added some new fonts (see Last added fonts), revised some parameters of the existing ones and added some clarifications.

[1.1.191]

  • [Development] README.MD / Fonts Table: fixed table generation in some conditions and updated Fonts data sheet symbols legend.

[1.1.188]

  • [Development] README.MD / Fonts Table: added flag to show new characters added in the latest version.

[1.1.184]

  • [Development] Fixed some problems with the README.MD generator in the theme Help.

[1.1.163]

  • [Theme] Fixed some colors;
  • [Theme] Fixed the HCUI (High Contrast UI) colors.
  • [Development] Improved GitHub commit.

[1.1.162]

  • [Theme] Introduced the HCUI versions (High Contrast UI) for each sub-theme of Monolith Suite (in Dark Matter Suite will be implemented in next future), for low resolution and/or high contrast monitors that, with the default theme settings, had problems of poor readability due to the transparency applied to the text and to the drop-down menus (thanks Alan Welsh!).

[1.1.159]

  • [Development] Optimized Preview Generator.

[1.1.158]

  • [Development] Fix Preview Generator.

[1.1.157]

  • [Theme] Improved editorBracketMatch highlight color;
  • [Development] Addedd editorBracketMatch as independent from automatic colorization keywords;
  • [Development] Added Daily / Hourly / Delta foresights to Statistics Table;
  • [Readme] Added some new fonts: "Dank Mono", "Ginotronic", "Monego" family, "M+ 2m" Family, "Operator Mono Lig", "Monaco", "BPmono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Luculent", "Whois mono", "NotCourierSans", "KawKab Mono", "Metrickal".

[1.1.155]

  • [Theme] Added tab.lastPinnedBorder color (VSCode 1.50);
  • [Theme] Fixed some UI and Token colors;
  • [Readme] Fixed some issue and improved Fonts Data Sheet table readability. Removed Font Weight from columns to prevent a partial cut-out of Fonts Table in Marketplace;
  • [Readme] Added some new fonts, revised some parameters of the existing ones;
  • [Development] Added Famous Quotes from Movies to Fake UI to better show font applied in fake screenshot;
  • [Development] Fix Fake UI elements due to browser or html2canvas.js improvements (partially hidden UI objects or wrong location in rendering).
  • [Development] Minor bugs fixed;

[1.1.151]

  • [Theme] Fixed some UI and Token colors;
  • [Readme] Added some new fonts, revised some parameters of the existing ones;
  • [Readme] Fixed some issue and improved Fonts Data Sheet table readability;
  • [Development] Some code improvements;
  • [Development] Fix for some randomizations of Fake UI;
  • [Development] Added Search to Fake UI Activity Bar and removed from Panel according to VSCode 1.46.00 Insider Preview;
  • [Development] Added Week Days to survey data weekly (count of each week day from publication, downloads in week day from publication, average downloads in week day, peak of the week)
  • [Development] Added Delta (Δ) to get difference between last values and previous values, Week Day of Downloads Peak, Survays Numbers (with previous value stored in Days from Publication) columns to Stats table and fixed value of Days from Publication.

[1.1.147]

  • [Theme] Added new theme colors for VS Code 1.45.00;
  • [Development] Fixed some visual bugs in Fake UI (Minimap and Indent Guides);
  • [Development] Optimized Stats columns generation;
  • [Development] Added last n (default = 30) surveys downloads trend and column color for Last Interval Survey.

[1.1.146]

  • [Readme] Fixed some issues in README.md and CHANGELOG.md generation.

[1.1.144]

  • [Readme] A little improvement to table of Suggested fonts, repeating headers every 10 items for more readability;
  • [Readme] Waiting for GitHub and VS Code Market to agree on how to generate the ids for the internal hyperlinks of the table of contents, I tried to optimize (as it was some version ago) the title text so that the hyperlinks are working both on the Marketplace ceh on Github (and not only on Github)
  • [Theme] I know, the need was not felt, but I created a new theme for my favorite tokencolors. Apophis Monolith and Zenburn Monolith are based on a single color in various intensities for each skin;
  • [Theme] Renamed skins Golem to Morion, Monolith to Aquamarine and Salamander to Sulfur;
  • [Development] Improved function alphamatte and alphaifbright for better color results.

[1.1.140]

  • [Theme] Added skins Golem, Monolith and Salamander, based on a single color in various intensities;
  • [Development] Added function alphamatte wich use color_blend function with current background color, to fix issue with VSCode terminal colors that do not accept alpha channel and render color as full white;
  • [Development] Added function alphaifbright function which reduces the alpha if the color is too white.

[1.1.136]

  • [Theme] Improved some UI skin's main colors;
  • [Readme] Found a little mistake that involving my Table o Contents generator: GitHub and Visual Studio Marketplace not uses same method to hash bookmarks: offline, in VSCode, MD preview seems to behave like GitHub, but once published, no: when README.md showed in preview or in Extension Documentation or on GitHub, bookmarks works correctly, but in the same version, in Marketplace, some bookmarks not working (those that have some particular characters that GitHub replaces each with a -, while Marketplace replaces all those sequential with a single -): - e.g.: # All work [ and no play ] makes Jack a dull boy: - GitHub / Markdown Preview on VSCode » #all-work---and-no-play---makes-jack-a-dull-boy; - Visual Studio Marketplace » #all-work-and-no-play-makes-jack-a-dull-boy;
  • [Readme] Added tab char to Suggested fonts default settings and symbols for font properies;
  • [Readme] Added font properties columns Zero Slashed or Dotted, Serif and Cursive in table of Suggested fonts. Also some new fonts added;
  • [Development] Added skinUiColorsOverrides array. This array takes priority over some colors already calculated, to better adapt some shades to the main color of single skin.

[1.1.134]

  • [Theme] Added Kronos skin's main color;
  • [Theme] Added Equinox skin's sub-set, with Deep Dark/Blue background and desatured token colors;
  • [Theme] Satured Viserion skins's main color;
  • [Theme] Some improvements to theme colors (highlights, errors ad badges color) fol all themes and some tokencolor scopes for Apophis;
  • [Readme] Now Suggested fonts shows the default settings in JSON format, to quickly test the fonts in Settings.ini with reasonable minimum values, for each of them, to limit visual fatigue;
  • [UI Manager] Added Console Log Monitor for check the progress of skin's rendering in html2canvas;
  • [UI Manager] Added Incremental Counter Monitor for check the progress of skin's rendering in page;
  • [UI Manager] Added checkbox to enable randomization of Fake UI elements;
  • [Development] Fixed a bug in the README.md / Table of Contents generator: the bookmarks, under certain conditions, were not generated correctly.
  • [Development] Each preview is generated using a different font from those listed among the fonts suggested on this page;
  • [Development] Added HTML example master file for Fake UI generator;
  • [Development] Added function to randomize Fake UI elements while maintaining consistency between sections;
  • [Development] Improved function to exclude themes by generation, for themes without expected imminent improvements;
  • [Development] Functions and visual improvements (colors, tokencolors, new elements and icons) for Fake UI Generator;
  • [Development] Improved function for cleaning SVG icons for theme-dependent coloring;
  • [Development] Improved function for Alpha Blend Color calculation (previously called Middle Color) between two colors. This function, in combination with the Text Color function, returns the most suitable color for text on a given background, better than previously function versions;
  • [Development] Improved function for Text Color calculation on background color (based on better Luminosity Contrast and no longer on Luminance);
  • [Development] Added Equalize color function to equalize color to near gray color, used for foreground text color based on satured main color.

[1.1.132]

  • [Theme] Some improvements to theme colors;
  • [Theme] Some improvements to token colors;
  • [Readme] Added new fonts suggestion in README.md;
  • [Development] Some improvements to Markdown Table Maker;
  • [UI Manager] Added button to go directly to marketplace of extension (override the label of first SVG badge).

[1.1.129]

  • [Theme] Satured Mystic River skin's main color and added to Apophis Dark Matter Theme;
  • [Theme] Added Cold, Flat, Warm (Grays) skin's sub-set to Apophis Dark Matter Theme;
  • [UI Manager] Added live badges strip under each theme panel.
  • [Development] Added functions for get installs number dynamically from badges;
  • [Development] Added functions for themes installs statistics;
  • [UI Manager] Solved CSS issue with sticky header.

[1.1.128]

  • [Development] Improved function that determine VSCode Themes Master version based on each included file;
  • [Development] Improved function for Text Color calculation on background color (based on Luminance);
  • [Development] Improved function for Luminance calculation (with calculation of Middle Color when colors are overlayed and with transpacency);
  • [Development] Added function for Middle Color: overlay result of foreground color wit opacity on background color whit/whitout opacity on default (deep) background color;
  • [Development] Improved line highlight background for foreground readability.

[1.1.127]

  • [Development] Solved issue with export value of Notifications opacity;

[1.1.125]

  • [Theme] Added more opacity to selection background;
  • [Theme] Tanks to bugfix #85690 in VSCode 1.42.0, added a bit of transparency to dropdown menu and notifications pop-up;
  • [Theme] In all the themes, only for token colors, the saturation filter has been replaced with the alpha filter to better blend the colors of the tokens with the background color. This avoids (or reduces) non-harmonic overlaps of text with background;
  • [TokenColors] Added Apophis tokencolors set an new Themes based on Dark Matter skins. Apophis, use only a subset of Dark Matter skins with which it is more in color harmony;
  • [Readme] Added some font suggestion in README.md;
  • [UI Manager] Added support for testing themes in VSCode insiders;
  • [UI Manager] Added Apply & URefresh button for refresh page without regenerate UI colors and Fake UI previews and apply options (e.g. step-up version);
  • [UI Manager] Added Ultra Refresh button for refresh page without regenerate UI colors previews and Fake UI previews;
  • [Development] Fixed some comments in Token colors JSON: removed, with RegExp, encoded html chars and some PHP explicited tags to avoid conflicts with PHP scripts of VSCode Themes Master;
  • [Development] Fixed some inaccuracies in the in PHP function make_code_example that emerged after the introduction of Apophis tokencolors;
  • [Development] After introduction of excluded_tokencolors_set_main, excluded_tokencolors_set_skin, excluded_tokencolors_set_combo, added generation of UI colors preview for each tokencolors file.
  • [Development] Added excluded_tokencolors_set_main, excluded_tokencolors_set_skin, excluded_tokencolors_set_combo arrays in _cfg.themes.colors.php wich respectively exclude:
    1. All token colors set in array from Main Theme (Group);
    2. All token colors set in array from Single Sub-Theme;
    3. All token colors set in array from Colors Combo for each Sub-Theme; This allows me to better manage the combined colors and exclude those that are not harmonic.
  • [Development] Generic code bug fix and improvements;

[1.1.122]

  • [Theme] In Low Blue sub-theme, skin Moai was replaced by skin Obsidian;
  • [Theme] Added Obsidian skin to some sub-themes;
  • [Readme] Added big picture preview of a random skin of set;
  • [UI Manager] Added Quick Refresh button for refresh page without regenerate Fake UI previews;
  • [Development] Generic code bug fix and improvements.

[1.1.114]

  • [Theme] Some keywords changed;
  • [Readme] Some README.md corrections;
  • [Development] Improved function to get the harmonic colors;
  • [Development] Generic code bug fix and improvements.

[1.1.109]

  • [Readme] Fixed bug in gallery with direct link of images preview;
  • [Development] The gray-scale determination criteria have been modified to try to improve the readability of the text on some background colors in themes.
  • [Development] Improved function to get the grayscale (using HSL instead of the common RGB to gray) of a background color to better evaluate the color of the text to be used on it.

[1.1.106]

  • [Themes] Removed fontStyle: bold from tokencolors: this make code more readable at low font size;
  • [Readme] Added Table of Contents;
  • [Readme] Added some informations about fonts rating;
  • [Development] Fixed a bug in load and manage JSON export from Visual Studio Code. Added a code to remove special PHP symbols from JSON that can be recognized as "active code" by VSCode Themes Master;
  • [Development] Added options to remove fontStyle => bold/underline/italic form Token Colors (tokenColorsOptions can be different for for each sub-theme);
  • [Development] Implemented function to make hierarchical Table of Contents;
  • [Development] Rewritten function to make Themes Gallery to solve a bug with table generation;
  • [Development] Implemented function to manage suggested fonts for coding.

[1.1.102]

  • [Themes] Added Insomnia sub-theme, clone of Nadir, with flatten colors, low UI contrast, and ultra-satured token colors: although this skin is the opposite concept to the others, in conditions of excessive brightness of the room, it may be convenient to have a theme with greater contrasts;
  • [Readme] Added sample color previews of UI (1st row) and Token Colors (2nd row) to UI previews;
  • [Readme] The organization of the previews is more orderly;
  • [Readme] Added font suggestion section;
  • [UI Manager] Improved Token colors Inspector: now, if opacity is present, shows the same color in two swatches: with and without opacity;
  • [Development] Implemented function to manage colors using HSL/HSV and improved some ColorMath functions.

[1.1.101]

  • [Themes] Added Deep Sea sub-theme, with extra deep blue background, flatten colors, low UI contrast, and ultra-desatured token colors;
  • [Themes] Added Nadir sub-theme, with extra cold gray background, flatten colors, low UI contrast, and ultra-desatured token colors;
  • [Themes] Change Open a remote window button colors (background and foreground);
  • [Themes] Added/Changed some skin main colors;
  • [Development] Some improvements to the README.md output;
  • [Development] The assignment of some relative colors has been revised;
  • [Development] Added selection menu to go to UI preview on the page and on page reload, to better recognize the impact of the changes applied to the skin;
  • [Development] Improved function for UI colors override: now is possible to override main colors and apply transformations o apply only transformations without override;
  • [Development] Addedd lastest 3 (but number si customizable) changelogs to README.md.

[1.1.100]

  • [Development] Solved graphic issue with rendering of background in Find/Replace Widget (Fake UI for preview generator);
  • [Development] Minor bug fix and optimizations: solved issue with placeholder of "vscode_marketplace_url" variable in master-readme.md.

[1.1.99]

  • [Themes] Added colors for some UI improvements introduced in Visual Studio Code 1.40.0;
  • [Themes] Added EclipseDS sub-theme, pretty faithful to Eclipse DevStyle theme, with extra cold gray background and more ultra-desatured token colors;
  • [Themes] Restyled icon and added Cover to README.md;
  • [Themes] After some UI colors revision, removed some sub-themes combo from Anthracite, Low Blue and Midnight, for similarity to the others skins;
  • [Themes] Downgrade of Visual Studio Code minimum required version from 1.33 to 1.29 to evaluate-it in Code-OSS (VSCode for Raspberry Pi/Raspbian, that have an issue in versions later than 1.29 at this time);
  • [Development] Minor bug fix and optimizations;
  • [Development] Improved function to generate at one time themes based on multiple tokencolors;
  • [Development] Implemented the function to generate theme based on my UI color with JSON file token colors export directly from VSCode (e.g. Dark+ wich not have an on TextMate equivalent version);
  • [Development] Implemented the function to generate previews in GIF/PNG/JPG of VSCode UI tanks to HTML2Canvas library;
  • [Development] Implemented the function to generate previews in HTML of VSCode UI (in order to obtain greater fidelity to the final result without testing everytime);
  • [Development] Fixed some issues of VSCode Themes Master in PHP 7.3.9.

[1.1.94]

  • [Themes] Dark Matter suite only: added Anthracite sub-theme, with extra cold gray background;
  • [Themes] Deprecated Zenburn Cold Gray in favor of Zenburn in Grays;
  • [Development] Added function for deprecate old themes that insert deprecation in favor of theme indicated;
  • [Development] Short badge on README.md;
  • [Development] Improved VSCode Themes Master UI PHP and JS functions to auto-unselect harmful build options after build theme/extension.

[1.1.85]

  • [Themes] Reintroduced Midnight sub-theme on certain combination of colors for all my skins;
  • [Development] Added code based on array excluded_combo that can exclude some combinations of color variants in sub-theme for unsightliness or similarity to other skin due to filtering: basically i've excluded some skins based on cold colors from Low Blue sub-theme and some skins based on warm colors from Midnight sub-theme.

[1.1.83]

  • [Themes] Dark Matter only: added Midnight sub-theme inspired by Telegram X Midnight Theme. Appearance of In Grays and Cold Gray skins with Midnight background is unsightly;
  • [Development] Added variable that overwrites the relative colors of the user interface with the relativized colors of the sub-theme for a better management of the color combination;
  • [Development] Added code that get sub-theme descriptions and insert them in README.md;
  • [Development] Added function that send Themes directly in VS Code Extensions Folder and Kill Reload VS Code executable for testing theme without debugging: this solve the issue to to select secondary skin twice before VS Code load her correctly.

[1.1.79]

  • [Themes] Improvements to some UI colors;
  • [Development] Optimized some functions for themes generation.

[1.1.71]

  • [Themes] Added Nirvana sub-theme group, with a warm variation like Low Blue Light but only on token colors;
  • [Themes] Improvements to some UI colors;
  • [Themes] Fixed some colors in themes skins and in Setting;
  • [Development] Add the function that rebuild missing generic token colors scopes, obtaining them from the analysis of different TextMate Themes. This function also build a global token scopes dictionary for futures implementations;
  • [Development] Optimized some functions for themes generation;
  • [Development] Automated assignmet of all Token Colors Themes to Skins based on type (dark/light);
  • [Development] Added function that convert existing TextMate Token Colors Themes in VSCode Token Colors and apply it to skins.

[1.1.59]

  • [Themes] Fixed some colors in themes skins;
  • [Development] Update UI of VSCode Themes Master;
  • [Development] Fixed some bugs in VSCode Themes Master.

[1.1.54]

[1.1.53]

  • [Themes] Colors of Explorer relativized to editor background color and not to active border / active tab (based on theme);
  • [Development] Themes rebuilt with integration of some colors.

[1.0.10]

  • [Themes] Restyled icon;
  • [Themes] Themes rebuilt using my VSCode Themes Master (a localhost PHP Script);
  • [Themes] Addedd some skins;
  • [Themes] Renamed some skins;
  • [Themes] Modified colors of skins.

[1.0.6]

  • [Themes] Restyled icon.

[1.0.2]

  • [Themes] Restyled icon;
  • [Themes] Sugar Paper inactive color more brighten;
  • [Themes] Editor background color darkened.

[1.0.1]

  • [Themes] The prefix $ for PHP variables is more visible;
  • [Themes] Asphalt secondary color darkened.

[1.0.0]

  • [Themes] First release of Zenburn Cold Gray Theme.