small contrast of html view in VScode darkmode
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Description
If using xarray inside VScode with darkmode, the new html repr has a small contrast of the text color and background.

Maybe the text color comes from the default setting, but the background color is not.
In light mode, it looks nice.
Versions
Output of xr.show_versions()
INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: None python: 3.7.5 (default, Oct 25 2019, 15:51:11) [GCC 7.3.0] python-bits: 64 OS: Linux OS-release: 4.15.0-1080-oem machine: x86_64 processor: x86_64 byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_US.UTF-8 LOCALE: en_US.UTF-8 libhdf5: 1.10.4 libnetcdf: 4.6.1xarray: 0.15.1
pandas: 0.25.3
numpy: 1.17.4
scipy: 1.3.2
netCDF4: 1.4.2
pydap: None
h5netcdf: 0.8.0
h5py: 2.9.0
Nio: None
zarr: None
cftime: 1.0.4.2
nc_time_axis: None
PseudoNetCDF: None
rasterio: None
cfgrib: None
iris: None
bottleneck: 1.3.1
dask: 2.9.0
distributed: 2.9.0
matplotlib: 3.1.1
cartopy: None
seaborn: 0.9.0
numbagg: None
setuptools: 42.0.2.post20191203
pip: 19.3.1
conda: None
pytest: 5.3.2
IPython: 7.10.2
sphinx: 2.3.0
Contributor guide
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing xarray's new HTML repr in VSCode dark mode and compare it with light mode. Inspect the generated HTML and its text and background colors; the issue is done when the repr has readable contrast in both modes.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, vscode
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100