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The error status indicator of the autocompiler (small square in the upper right corner of the code editor) uses dark red to indicate errors and dark green to indicate success. Separating these colours from each other is difficult for (even only slightly) color blind people like me. According to wikipedia, 8% of the male population suffer from red-green color blindness to some extent. Consider changing the success indicator color to a considerably lighter shade of green.
Reassigning to "editor".
These colors in fact should be added to a coloring profile and made customizable in Tools-Options -> Fonts & Colors -> Highlighting. I think it's ok to change the colors. Do you have some preference (eg. post an RGB values here)? Thanks
Since the correct solution depends on many things (monitor, user, workspace lighting), configurability would be the best option. Updating to a better monitor has solved this issue for me so I can no longer provide any meaningful better colors.
Seems like it is not fixed although the TM is set to 6.9. Could you please take a look at this issue? Thanks.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss