rainbow-blocks VS paren-face

About tools: This and this can be useful.

For something fancy, there's also rainbow-blocks and rainbow-identifiers

There's a package for Emacs that has a similar idea: https://github.com/istib/rainbow-blocks

Emacs has rainbow-delimiters and rainbow-blocks (and show-paren).

https://github.com/istib/rainbow-blocks

Alternative using Emacs: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face

In the spirit of u/tarsius_'s paren-face, I just pushed a new feature to prism.el: parens can be colorized distinctly from other text, so they can be, e.g. faded out into the background (or made to stand out more, if you like).

There is paren-face-mode that can dim the parentheses, especially useful until your mind gets used to lisps.

In a similar idea, you can also make them less visible, so indentation strikes more: https://github.com/tarsius/paren-face/

I like paren-face mode more. Reduce the contrast on the parens a bit so they're still visible but less prominent and it makes it easier to focus on the indentation, which is usually a better at-a-glance indicator of scope and intent. I ended up liking this setup so much that I eventually set it to dim [] {} and (), and to do it for all languages, not just lisps.

If you are using emacs, you might find paren-face-mode useful