> Here’s another test. Close your eyes (not yet! Finish this sentence first) and try to remember what color your color theme uses for class names? Can you?

Yeah. Pink for keywords, orange for arguments, yellow for strings, green for functions, blue for classes and purple for constants.

But it’s not even important if you can. Having different colors helps you quickly / unconsciously filter through different parts of your code. I agree it can be too distracting to have lots of colors (especially with semantic highlighting, which I’m no particular fan of for that reason), but a carefully calibrated theme helps most people I think.

I can also certainly imagine that some brains just work differently. Maybe for some people colors just add more noise?