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FTLOG Don't use light gray on a white background
Environment
- VS Code 1.41.1
- Your primary theme: "PowerShell ISE"
Issue Description
Insufficient contrast between = ! - , and the background, and exacerbated when the use has render white space on.
Screenshots

Notice the last line has a misplaced - sign which is very hard to see. Params is rendered here as the name of a variable which will be splatted, but -@params is treated as a string literal to be passed as a parameter value .
In the ISE the - sign changes the rendering

Supplementary In the ISE, the $ and @ are rendered in the same colour as the variable name.
Expected Behavior
I am now working around this by adding the following to my vs code settings
"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
"[PowerShell ISE]": {"textMateRules": [
{
"scope": "keyword.operator",
"settings": {
"foreground": "#000000",
}
}
]}
},

Code Samples
$Params.Uri = "$repoUri/annotatedtags?api-version=5.1-preview"
$Params['Body'] = [ordered]@{
name = $Name
taggedObject = @{objectId = $env:BUILD_SOURCEVERSION}
message = $Message } | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 2
Invoke-RestMethod -@Params -ContentType 'application/json' -Method Post | Format-List
Suggestion
Maintain a difference of at least 127 (50%) between the background and syntax elements. The rgb values for these elements are A9A9A9 (169 decimal), which is the 2/3 point rather than the 50%
Consider using smaller even differentials between rendered white space/control characters and the back ground or