By default, the various colors used in TeXShop to indicate (La)TeX commands (blue), ordinary text and surprisingly, in-line math (black), comments (red) is horrible: not only ugly, but with so much contrast as to be distracting to the eye.
How can one change the colors for the various elements -- to a scheme that's more subtle and less distracting?
TeXShop ⇒ Change Colors for Syntax Parsing
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