This is about the Solarized color scheme from Ethan Schoonover. This is the color scheme I use and love and am grateful to Ethan that he made it. That being sai

This is about the Solarized color scheme from Ethan Schoonover. This is the color scheme I use and love and am grateful to Ethan that he made it. That being said, "The Mathematical History of a Perfect Color Combination" is a stretch - a big stretch. For one thing, going by Ethan's own description of the selection process, there was not much math involved: Schoonover talks a lot about the mathematical nature of his color selections, but he picked the starting colors, a blue and a yellow, for very personal reasons. The blue reminds him of his long standing thalassophobia, the fear of very deep water. And though he says he doesn't otherwise experience synesthesia—such as hearing colors or tasting words—the yellow invokes tastes and smells he associates with his childhood. "My parents are artists, I'm comfortable picking things for obscure reasons," he says. For another thing, even if it was strictly based on a color circle, that wouldn't make it more "mathematical". The color circle of current fashion isn't much more than a historical accident and besides the basic order of the main colors there isn't much science behind it.