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 ## Motivation
 
 I find existing colorschemes to generally be excessively colorful and
-distracting, rather than informative. I wrote midnight.nvim to focus on code
+distracting rather than informative. I wrote midnight.nvim to focus on code
 structure, specifically for competitive programming and workplace software
 development environments. I included highlighting of constants (e.g. strings,
 numbers, booleans) and language keywords to emphasize the maximally important