selection text background color and occurrences highlight text background color are extremely undistinguishable

[victorteokw]

When editor.occurrencesHighlight turned on (this is turned on by default), it's very difficult to know where is selection and where is symbol highlighting.

[Binaryify]

could you provide some screenshots

[Dassderdie]

I noticed this too. This is esspacially irritating when dealing with variables or strings and you want to copy a word in it.
Untouched:

editor.occurrencesHighlight = disabled
Cursor in string:

word selected:

editor.occurrencesHighlight = enabled
Cursor in string:

word selected:

[Binaryify]

I saw other themes have this issue too, thinking it's vscode itself issue, still don't know how to fix it

[Bandit]

I have this issue too - I just disabled editor.occurrencesHighlight for now 👍

[ghost]

According to Theme Color Reference the color of the setting editor.wordHighlightBackground «must not be opaque so as not to hide underlying decorations». So I changed it from #484e5b to #d2e0ff2f and everything works fine.

Demo: before, after

[ghost]

Same goes for the color of the setting editor.findMatchHighlightBackground. It must not be opaque:

[Binaryify]

just fixed this issues in v2.8.1
thank @exploreMax for his advice