Make color0 distinct from background/foreground and fix helix theme (#5538)

* Make color0 distinct from background/foreground

The majority of themes have color0 available as a subtle offset from
the background. For flexoki-light, because color0 matched foreground, it
wasn't subtle, and would cause invisible text when used as a background
color (e.g., in text editor rulers). For vantablack, ethereal,
hackerman, and white, color0 matched background and would cause
invisible text when a theme wanted text to be de-emphasized.

This patch makes it consistently a subtle offset from background.

* Make helix selection theme colors more subtle

Helix is more usable if the selection background is subtle. This is
primarily because of [[1]], which makes a bright selection like we had
before often make the foreground text unreadable in the picker preview.

[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/12405

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Luke Hsiao

2026-05-02 11:36:06 +02:00

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commit d80c98f025

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				@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ background = "#060B1E"

				selection_foreground = "#060B1E"

				selection_background = "#ffcead"

				color0 = "#060B1E"

				color0 = "#3C486D"

				color1 = "#ED5B5A"

				color2 = "#92a593"

				color3 = "#E9BB4F"