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I have been tinkering away at my personal take on what a modern, monochrome-esque Emacs might look for some years now and it is finally in a place where I think other might find it useful. The approached draws wisdom from the realization that "highlighting everything is the same as highlighting nothing" and tries to remedy the de-facto practice of theme by way of fruit-salad with more considerate approach. Inspired by alabaster's use of backgrounds for subtle syntax highlighting, typographic ideals and my endlessly sore eyes, it leaves text a comfortable black/white while drawing attention to constants, comments, declarations, and strings. A customizeable highlight color (by default a golden beige) provides a bit of life to the otherwise monochrome palette.
Thank you! Pragmata is a surprisingly difficult type to set, as you say, it often turns into something rather asphyxiating (as my earlier attempt at this theme shows). I think the key is to give it a generous line height to offset the narrow glyphs. Emacs ability to control line height is a bit... well, iffy at best, so I usually resort to manually patching the font using this great script. I can't share my copy due to licensing, but I have it set to 1.4 if you want to recreate it.
Looks like some kind of Nord with solaire-mode to provide contrasting backgrounds for secondary buffers.