11 ms·

Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

496 points by lamnk 16y ago

lamnk 16y ago
Please share your favorite color scheme(s) ! My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk Haven't found any good color scheme for iterm2 yet. Currently i'm using thayer: http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/ http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/
- natesm 16y ago
  My favorite theme is the "Oblivion" one for gedit, but I don't use gedit, so I remade it for TextMate and Xcode 3/4. http://natestedman.com/post/morrowind-for-textmate-xcode/ http://natestedman.com/post/morrowind-for-textmate-xcode/ I am sitting on a mostly-done vim version right now as well, the GUI colors are all good, but I wiped out the terminal colors (I want them to just be the defaults). I'm not exactly a vim expert and I almost always use the terminal vim exclusively for git commits, which don't really need highlighting, so the motivation to fix those sort of disappeared.
  - lamnk 16y ago
    That looks cool, please consider putting your code on github so that others can follow its development.
    - natesm 16y ago
      Here you go: https://github.com/NateStedman/morrowind https://github.com/NateStedman/morrowind Will upload the vim one later after I finish it up.
  - wladimir 16y ago
    Another vote for the Oblivion gedit theme. It's very nice. This is supposed to be the version for Eclipse, but it seems that the colors are kind of different, which is a pity: http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=1 http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=1
- rjprins 16y ago
  I prefer the emacs color-theme 'tangotango': http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-emacs-color-theme http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-ema...
- zargon 16y ago
  My favorite is ir_black: http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/8 http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/8
  - thenduks 16y ago
    IR_White, too! https://github.com/squil/vim_colors/blob/master/IR_White.vim https://github.com/squil/vim_colors/blob/master/IR_White.vim
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
- ilikepi 16y ago
  I am currently using darkspectrum[1] for diff output and candycode[2] for everything else. There is a huge gallery of them, viewable with several code samples, on the Vim Color Scheme Test page[3]. [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2215 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2215 [2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1635 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1635 [3] http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/ http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/
- tomasr 16y ago
  Thanks for the kind words about molokai; took a bit to get it ported, but I've enjoyed it a lot since then. 99% of the props should go to the original authors of monokai and Hamish, though :) Molokai ain't perfect, but I have yet to find one I like more for daily use.
  - eddiegroves 16y ago
    Thanks for the port Tomas - been enjoying it for several years. Always leaves a 'mark' when people see it for the first time.
- entropie 16y ago
  For emacs: https://skitch.com/entropie/ra4ms/emacs-api.rb https://skitch.com/entropie/ra4ms/emacs-api.rb Source: https://github.com/entropie/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/color-theme-bmate.el https://github.com/entropie/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/co...
- hansengel 16y ago
  I love the Railscasts theme (http://railscasts.com/episodes/258-token-fields http://railscasts.com/episodes/258-token-fields for example), which is what I usually use with Emacs. For iTerm2 I copied over the colors from Visor.app's theme.. but Solarized looks really nice, so maybe I'll soon be using that instead.
  - deleted 16y ago
    [deleted]
- telemachos 16y ago
  After years of dark colorschemes, I'm loving vim-github-theme[1]. [1] https://github.com/acarapetis/vim-github-theme https://github.com/acarapetis/vim-github-theme
- adriand 16y ago
  I really like Mustang: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2758 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2758 (Screen: http://hcalves.deviantart.com/art/Mustang-Vim-Colorscheme-98974484 http://hcalves.deviantart.com/art/Mustang-Vim-Colorscheme-98...)
- simonista 16y ago
  I like mustang as well, but I keep coming back to desert: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=105 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=105
- ths 16y ago
  I mostly use IR_black for vim and emacs, that's definitely a classic. But I'm also quite fond of a custom scheme I made; the colors mostly come from Textmate's Made of Code scheme. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Ui93Q.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Ui93Q.jpg If anyone is interested, the theme is here: http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.vim http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.vim The .vim file started out as IR_black, I just hacked at the colors until I was satisfied, so the code's not clean or anything :) [I also have a OS X terminal theme to go with it, and an emacs version.]
  - gnufs 16y ago
    Could you share the emacs theme?
    - ths 16y ago
      http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.el http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.el
- jarin 16y ago
  I use molokai as well, but with some small tweaks (darker near-black background, lighter more visible comments, and a more visible line highlight). Inconsolata font for life, I've tried just about every other programming font out there and I always keep coming back.
- nezumi 16y ago
  Wombat: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/ http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...
  - andyn 16y ago
    There's also a 256 colour version for use in terminals: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465
- jswanson 16y ago
  Used 'elflord' for the longest time, but have lately switched to Koehler. Screenshot with semi-transparent background: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3ORpqSeM1kvLV0lceHpOjw?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3ORpqSeM1kvLV0lceHpOjw...
- fourspace 16y ago
  I also love thayer for iterm2. Here's the github repo for those schemes: https://github.com/larssmit/iTerm-2-Color-Themes https://github.com/larssmit/iTerm-2-Color-Themes
- clvv 16y ago
  Lucius: https://github.com/vim-scripts/Lucius https://github.com/vim-scripts/Lucius
- aquadoctorbob 16y ago
  You might like my molokai-inspired color scheme for xterm: https://gist.github.com/845878 https://gist.github.com/845878
- sandGorgon 16y ago
  is there a reason why most of these color schemes (including solarized), have a very low contrast for comments - making them difficult to read. I personally use the desert colorcheme (http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html)
  - beaumartinez 16y ago
    Perhaps to make them "stand-out" less (so they don't distract you when you're skimming the code).
    - sandGorgon 16y ago
      this is interesting - colorscheme as a reflection of programming philosophy. I actually tend to read (and write) comments a LOT. Which is why, I simply am not able to use any colorscheme that tries to hide comments.
  - notque 16y ago
    Yeah, I'm a huge fan of desert.
- ozataman 16y ago
  I like nuvola for VIM; it has clean, solid colors.
- makeramen 16y ago
  I've actually really grown accustomed to Visor's color theme and use it for all my terminal stuff (including vim). http://visor.binaryage.com/ http://visor.binaryage.com/ IR_Black for Textmate though
- edambauskas 16y ago
  I am using Vim on Windows via an app called Console2. I am not sure how it handles terminal colors. So I just configured Console2 to use Solarized colors and then tried every colorscheme in Vim. "morning" scheme worked best for me. It is so much easier to read my coworkers crammed code.
- gurraman 16y ago
  I wrote my own scheme: https://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/colors/strange.vim https://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/colors/... Python: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/python.png http://files.pipsq.com/strange/python.png Erlang: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/erlang.png http://files.pipsq.com/strange/erlang.png
  - phaylon 16y ago
    I just tried this with Perl, and it looks great (the fold-column's a bit bright, but I don't have that on by default). Have you thought about uploading it to vim.org?
    - gurraman 16y ago
      Thank you. Will do.
      - gurraman 16y ago
        Done. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3534 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3534 https://github.com/strange/strange.vim https://github.com/strange/strange.vim
  - houk 16y ago
    Those are both really nice. I'm finding after a year or so of IR_Black I'm wanting a change. What's your terminal setup like?
    - gurraman 16y ago
      Thank you. I run tmux inside iTerm2. I'll clean the theme up a little and make an isolated repository. Looks decent in 8-color terminal as well.
- 1_player 16y ago
  I love lettuce.vim: http://i.imgur.com/67LH9.png http://i.imgur.com/67LH9.png You can download it here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1975 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1975 Make sure to enable 256 colors.
- 2mur 16y ago
  In MacVim I tend to switch between molokai and ir_black.
- guygurari 16y ago
  I use brookstream [1]. It's dark, somewhat low-contrast, with shades of blue and purple. [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=619 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=619
- nitrogen 16y ago
  I'm using a modified xoria256 in console vim. I gave it a darker background and added some missing colors.
- zem 16y ago
  desert256
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
moe 16y ago
I don't like this scheme and I don't buy the pseudo-science blurb. It's based on shades of blue. Our eyes are the least sensitive to blue. And what's up with the red and pink, is this some cruel joke? I'll stick with Zenburn[1]. [1] http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/ http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/
- pyre 16y ago
  What's the pseudo-science blurb?
  - moe 16y ago
    The monotones have symmetric CIELAB lightness differences, so switching from dark to light mode retains the same perceived contrast in brightness between each value. Each mode is equally readable. The accent colors are based off specific colorwheel relations and subsequently translated to CIELAB to ensure perceptual uniformity in terms of lightness. The hues themselves, as with the monotone ab values, have been adjusted within a small range to achieve the most pleasing combination of colors. Blurby enough? ;-)
    - pyre 16y ago
      What part of CIELAB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space) is pseudo-science? I don't see a section on the Wikipedia page about criticisms or controversies.
      - moe 16y ago
        Point taken, I should have been less hand-wavy. CIELAB might not be pseudo-science, but the claim that the application of CIELAB makes this a good scheme is, at best, dubious. The bright red and pink don't blend with the other colors at all. Their jarring contrast (and red hue) could be adequate for an alert message, but not for innocent and frequent syntax elements. Maybe there is a math model that captures all relevant aspects that make a good syntax highlighting color scheme. But this model clearly doesn't.
julian37 16y ago
Someone started porting it to Emacs: https://github.com/sellout/solarized/tree/master/emacs-color-theme-solarized https://github.com/sellout/solarized/tree/master/emacs-color...
- daleharvey 16y ago
  the emacs port seems a bit too low contrast http://dropup.net/lz64u0ctpcge.png.html http://dropup.net/lz64u0ctpcge.png.html
  - parbo 16y ago
    Yes, that seems strange. Does emacs handle gamma differently?
    - sanityinc 16y ago
      Cocoa Emacs doesn't seem to handle gamma at all; the color you set isn't the color you get. I just raised an emacs bug here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8402 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8402
  - sanityinc 16y ago
    After investigating this (and raising the aforementioned Emacs bug), I've concluded that sRGB hex colors - as used by Ethan - are simply not the right hex colors to enter in Emacs in order to get the desired results. Instead, Emacs apparently works with Generic RGB values, and after some laborious conversion calculations in Apple's "ColorSync Utility", I got the right results: https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized The color fix will probably get into sellout's repo, so interested parties should prefer that one over mine.
    - spacemanaki 16y ago
      That's awesome! Thank you!
- 16y ago
kunalb 16y ago
I found the theme rather comfortable for using in the terminal; however I set TERM=xterm-256color so that vim would also pick up the light colour scheme—there seemed to be some issues with the background colour on gnome-terminal/Ubuntu. Thanks!
- Adaptive 16y ago
  When I was brave enough to test outside of urxvt and iterm2/terminal.app, it seemed that terminal emulators are all over the place in terms of background color support in vim terminal mode. You might have tried this already (and it might not actually be related to your issue), but there is a variable you stick in your vimrc (let g:solarized_termtrans=1) to force it to take the background of your terminal emulator (useful only if you are running with the solarized colors in terminal mode). I should come up with a some recommendations on setting TERM to ensure proper colorscheme support, but that way lies madness (for me at least).
daleharvey 16y ago
Its really rare to see that much thought going into the aesthetics of stereotypically "geeky" applications like vim and terminals, even the website looks entirely different from pretty much every website I have seen around these tools its a refreshing change, awesome work
- Adaptive 16y ago
  Thanks very much. Looking back at my early hg repos on this project I refined it for about six months. As an aside. I have a nominal post in my head contrasting the development and refinement of a colorscheme like this vs the infamous 41 shades of blue. There is room for refinement and testing in design, but I think it has to be coupled with a clear design goals and opinions.
  - edambauskas 16y ago
    Thank you for the work! It would be very interesting to learn about the methods you used to create this. Are you planning to create a palette with more shades? Some time ago I needed lighter Tango tones and created this extended palette: http://emilis.info/other/extended_tango/ http://emilis.info/other/extended_tango/
aidenn0 16y ago
It would be nice to have a script that would start with this as a base, but let you tune the contrast. I like the theme, but would like more contrast than this (I use small fonts, and I really feel like more contrast is necessary when doing so).
- Adaptive 16y ago
  fwiw, there is a high contrast option in the vim colorscheme (let g:solarized_contrast="high"). I'm working on cleaning up some of the build scripts that generated specific files (the mutt directory has an ugly shell script as an example, there are better ways of course).
tptacek 16y ago
So, my mind is blown that you put so much effort into designing a color scheme, and thanks, but maybe put the img/ directory in your git repo somewhere else, so that a git pull of a color scheme doesn't take 50(!) megs.
- Adaptive 16y ago
  I was afraid that would be a pain for people, sorry! You're right, I need to do this. There is a reason, which is that the exact same repo does double duty as the webpage (via Hakyll). It's super convenient because I have hakyll process the README out into an index.html (pulling webserver local imgs, so there is some sed magic). I may try to break out the images as another subtree or make a website subtree. It was lower on my list of priorities, but clearly a pain to others cloning/forking. I'll try to sort it before beta2.
mark_story 16y ago
Fantastic work. If I happen upon some spare time I'll try and port it for TextMate users.
- _frog 16y ago
  Please do, I'd really appreciate it.
  - mark_story 16y ago
    I've got a start going in https://github.com/markstory/solarized https://github.com/markstory/solarized
    - larssmit 16y ago
      Great work, Mark! I see you're progressing well with the TextMate themes.
      - tombot 16y ago
        Hey, I've forked Mark's version and added a bunch of specific styles for the Light version, specifically a lot of rules for PHP and CSS. It's not 100% yet, but it's already the best TextMate theme I've ever used. https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized
iwjames 16y ago
Very nice! It is indeed amazing how much thought and effort was put into this, and it is appreciated. At some point, I'll have to convert for Visual Studio use if someone doesn't beat me to it.
flexterra 16y ago
My favorite vim color scheme is two2tango. Here's a preview http://cl.ly/2Y0v251z0A29203K3d3D http://cl.ly/2Y0v251z0A29203K3d3D
brianr 16y ago
I don't know about the rest of you, but my eyes literally started to hurt when I read the text on that page, presumably because of the color of the text v. background. Doesn't bode well for using it in vim... Maybe it looks better on a different monitor? (I have a Samsung LCD.)
- jswanson 16y ago
  I found the color scheme easy to read. Using a Dell monitor attached to a mac via DVI though, and calibrated to the best of my ability using the OSX calibration tool.
- klutometis 16y ago
  Bizarrely: I, too, had to strain to read the page; which I attributed, however, to the weight of the font: so thin that it won't render without artifacts.
- slashclee 16y ago
  What browser are you using? It looks great to me here in Chrome and Safari.
  - brianr 16y ago
    Chrome on Mac.
- bricestacey 16y ago
  You may need to enable ClearType. If on Windows XP. Display Properties > Appearance > Effects
  - brianr 16y ago
    I'm on Mac OSX; is there an equivalent?
    - epochwolf 16y ago
      For Snow Leopard: Open System Preferences, go to Appearance, and uncheck "Use LCD font smoothing when available"
sdghrtjt 16y ago
ONLINE STORE: ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== Air jordan(1-24)shoes $30 Handbags(Coach l v f e n d i d&g) $35 Tshirts (Polo ,ed hardy,lacoste) $15 Jean(True Religion,ed hardy,coogi) $30 Sunglasses(Oakey,coach,gucci,A r m a i n i) $15 New era cap $12 Bikini (Ed hardy,polo) $20 accept paypal and free shipping ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )====
meemo 16y ago
Wow. Beautiful colors. Beautiful site. Very impressed by how much effort the author has put into this.
gmaster1440 16y ago
Make it for TextMate ;)
argleblargle 16y ago
Is anybody willing to explain how to switch between light and dark? I can't seem to understand the scss snippet that he gives. Apparently, you only have to switch 4 colors, It would be nice to know what those colors were.
- Adaptive 16y ago
  I'll be expanding the webpage to detail that, but essentially: base03 = background base02 = background highlight base01 = background data (comments, etc.) base0 = normal text The scheme was designed to allow for: base1 = optional bold/emphasis Just swap the zeros (initially I was using minus/plus, e.g. base-1 and base+1 but this isn't usable across all apps) to swap dark and light modes. There is a good example of this in the vim script as well as the sass snippet (and the mutt compile script if you are a glutton for ugly bash scripts). base3 = light background base2 = dark background etc. You shouldn't need to do any of this manually, however. The vim script has a light/dark mode built in and where there isn't a way to toggle modes I am distributing light and dark versions (the terminal color schemes).
  - argleblargle 16y ago
    Thanks! I coulden't find a light version of the Xresources script though, that's why I was wondering about switching.
jzawodn 16y ago
Any chance of publishing the Xresources version (or at least hex codes in that file) for the "white" version?
- zaph0d 16y ago
  It's here - https://github.com/altercation/solarized/blob/master/xresources-colors-solarized/Xresources https://github.com/altercation/solarized/blob/master/xresour...
  - jzawodn 16y ago
    That's the dark version.
aperiodic 16y ago
The 64-bit TerminalColours SIMBL plugin that's linked to in the README doesn't play nicely with binaryage's 64-bit Visor plugin, for some reason. However, Evan Phoenix's fork[1] works perfectly for me. [1] https://github.com/evanphx/terminalcolours/downloads https://github.com/evanphx/terminalcolours/downloads
varikin 16y ago
I made a Solarized dark theme for XCode 4. I used the Vim definition as a guide, though varied it a little while staying within the color palette. https://github.com/varikin/solarized/tree/master/xcode4-colors-solarized https://github.com/varikin/solarized/tree/master/xcode4-colo...
gnufs 16y ago
I would really love to have emacs, gnome-terminal and gedit themes made out of this color scheme.
leif 16y ago
the bold colors are bad, this makes most of my terminal apps annoying as hell (ncmpcpp, byobu, aptitude, htop) for one thing, at least one of the bold text colors is the same as the background, this makes this text not even show up when it's present it would be nice if not for this
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
streeter 16y ago
Anybody know of a TextMate port?
- tombot 16y ago
  Yep, come and help finish it :) https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized
swaits 16y ago
Does this work in the console (vim)? I currently have desert256 working nicely in iTerm (xterm-256color). I'm away from my computer or I'd test it myself. Thanks! Never seen anyone put this much effort into a color scheme! I actually feel like I personally owe it to you to give this a shot.
- lloeki 16y ago
  Yes, but the 256 mode is actually an approximation of the real color theme. For exact colors you have to set up the 16 ansi colors of your terminal to the right colors and set a var in vimrc. See the docs for details.
cycojesus 16y ago
any volunteer to submit it for emacs24 @ http://elpa.gnu.org/themes/ http://elpa.gnu.org/themes/ ?
- cycojesus 16y ago
  Did it @ https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-theme.el https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-them... https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-light-theme.el https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-ligh...
Luyt 16y ago
A bit too much color according to my taste - I like a more subdued color scheme, as seen in http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/kwrite-textanalyse.png http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/kwrite-textanalyse.p... (All black on lightgray, strings dark gray, and prussian blue comments).
- lovskogen 16y ago
  A norwegian file! Tekstanalyse. Why are the comments in Dutch?
  - Luyt 16y ago
    It was a prototype I made for a prospective client. I sometimes use Dutch comments (and variable names) in such a case. Btw, 'Tekstanalyse' is also a Dutch word.
bricestacey 16y ago
I cannot seem to get the colors to render properly on Snow Leopard, using Terminal.app, and vim. Anyone else have any trouble but get it to work? I installed the thing as instructed. I installed SIMBL and the SIMBL plugin, installed Solarized Dark Terminal.app theme, installed vim using pathogen, and set .vimrc with the additional g:solorized_termcolors=16 option.
- mduvall 16y ago
  Go to Applications > Utilities, right-click on Terminal.app and set 32-bit mode. Hope that helps!
rane 16y ago
I love the effort put into this, but somehow the background is way too light for my taste, in vim the colorscheme is kind of bland.
xiaomai 16y ago
I haven't looked into how one can export gnome-terminal color palettes yet, but if anyone else is interested, I think these are the correct settings in gconf: /apps/gnome-terminal/palette: #070736364242:#D3D336368282:#B5B589890000:#CBCB4B4B1616:#2A2AA1A19898:#6C6C7171C4C4:#858599990000:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#D3D301010202:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#26268B8BD2D2:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 /apps/gnome-terminal/background_color: #00002B2B3636 /apps/gnome-terminal/foreground_color: #65657B7B8383 Edit: Ok, I pulled down the source for gnome-terminal since I couldn't find a way to export/import color schemes. The color palettes are all hard-coded, so that is unfortunate :(.
- graywh 16y ago
  You can edit the custom palette (it gets saved in .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/XXXX/%gconf.xml).
  - xiaomai 16y ago
    agreed, but there is no mechanism for importing/exporting additional color schemes (I guess you could export an entire profile, but that entails quite a bit more than just color schemes).
- xiaomai 16y ago
  Ok, I think I had this wrong and it looks like I've hit a limit on editing my post. Here's the right values (I hope): (All values are in /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default): palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 background_color: #00002B2B3636 foreground_color: #65657B7B8383
  - Tharkun 16y ago
    And here's the Light version: palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268 B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B363 6:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6 C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 background_color: #FDFDF6F6E3E3 foreground_color: #00002B2B3636 (Same palette, just different FG and BG colours)
pyre 16y ago
Anyone get a chance to test out how this looks with vimdiff? That's one area that usually ends up looking fugly b/c the theme creator neglected to look at it. Other areas that are typically neglected (though not in this case): code folding, split buffer dividers.
- ilikepi 16y ago
  Here's a vimdiff sample from the rvm repo... http://i.imgur.com/IMdt5.png http://i.imgur.com/IMdt5.png
JulianMorrison 16y ago
I really don't get the terminal color assignments. Why are the brfoo colors set to grey?
bloom 16y ago
It's a remarkable work. Although, on the dark background, the red and the magenta colors are too saturated.
stevejalim 16y ago
I don't mean to sound particularly thick here, but is there a way to apply these colours to my OSX Terminal too? I've installed the bundle for Terminal.app, and they look lovely in emacs, but can I use them in my general bash environment, too?
- streeter 16y ago
  Yes, the directions are on GitHub: https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/osx-ter... Once you've activated that theme in Terminal.app's preferences, all your colors in the shell will use the colors defined in the colorscheme. So red will be the red in the colorscheme, blue -> blue, etc.
  - stevejalim 16y ago
    Thanks - seems to be working a treat here. Cheers!
- raju 16y ago
  How did you get it for emacs? Perhaps I am the one being thick here ... :-/
  - stevejalim 16y ago
    It just worked, or at least, seems to be working :o)
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
lbolla 16y ago
I tried to install the iTerm2 colorscheme and also the vim colorscheme, but they look nowhere near the screenshots. Anyone having issues like this?
- landhar 16y ago
  My vim renders everything way darker (or perhaps is just that there is not as much contrast) than in the screenshots. I double checked that I am using xterm-256color (and also checked against rxvt-unicode-256color). It's too bad, I really like how it looks in your screenshots, but in my computer not so much...
GrandMasterBirt 16y ago
Request for intellij impl.
PonyGumbo 16y ago
Am I the only coder who doesn't like working with light text on a dark background? I have 20/20 vision, and I find it really uncomfortable to use these.
- grayrest 16y ago
  My theory is that it depends on when/where you normally work. If you have a tendency to code at night or in dark rooms, dark on light is very bright. At least, that's why I go light on dark.
  - PonyGumbo 16y ago
    That makes sense. I work from home in a room that's all windows.
antihero 16y ago
It looks nice, is there a tmTheme file? Currently I use TwilightMod, which is as the name suggests, a modification of Twilight. This is what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/u802t.png http://i.imgur.com/u802t.png Get it here https://gist.github.com/809720 https://gist.github.com/809720
maayank 16y ago
Any chance someone can pull an Eclipse Color Theme version? (pretty please :)
- oh_no_my_eyes 16y ago
  check it http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?list=all&q=solar http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?list=all&q=solar
  - maayank 16y ago
    Could be that I'm missing something, but the dark versions don't seem to be the same as in solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/img/solarized/solarized-screen-java-dark.png http://ethanschoonover.com/img/solarized/solarized-screen-ja...
freedrull 16y ago
Does the font on the website look extremely blurry for anyone else...?
redsparrow 16y ago
I was interested in seeing what the colour palettes might look like in the real world. Here's are the some multicolr searches for the 5-colour palettes: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,586e75,839496,93a1a1,d30102 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,586e75,8394...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e75,657b83,b58900 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,93a1a1,eee8d5,fdf6e3,268bd2 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,93a1a1,eee8...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,839496,93a1a1,eee8d5,cb4b16 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,839496,93a1...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,93a1a1,eee8d5,d33682,6c71c4 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,93a1a1,eee8...; A search with just the base colours: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e75,657b83,839496,93a1a1,eee8d5,fdf6e3 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...;
- Adaptive 16y ago
  Man, I love those sets. Hadn't used that site before but it's awesome. Very nice to see the stark ocean and ink in water in the last set. Not too far off from the deep ocean feel I was targeting during design. Thanks. Great links.
retrovirus 16y ago
Any chance for gedit and gnome terminal versions? Fantastic scheme, would donate my kidney for a gedit port
- jdorenbush 16y ago
  https://github.com/mukashi/solarized/tree/master/gedit-colors-solarized https://github.com/mukashi/solarized/tree/master/gedit-color...
sashthebash 16y ago
Am I the only person on HN that just happily uses the default color schemes that comes with editors?
- freiheit 16y ago
  Just about, yes.
john2x 16y ago
I made a simple Pygments version[1] for use on my website. I immediately thought it was perfect for my site, but I'm sticking to molokai for Vim. Thanks! [1]: https://bitbucket.org/john2x/solarized-pygment https://bitbucket.org/john2x/solarized-pygment
neurolysis 16y ago
When I use this in my .Xdefaults, my terminal emulator (urxvt) goes hot pink ( http://ompldr.org/vODRtMg/2011-04-05-165103_1024x600_scrot.png http://ompldr.org/vODRtMg/2011-04-05-165103_1024x600_scrot.p... ), any ideas?
- leif 16y ago
  mine goes all blue, it's awful and I haven't found anyone with this problem. Looks great in vim but it's unusable for urxvt/xterm (and also emacs). edit: http://imgur.com/OMjdR http://imgur.com/OMjdR
  - neurolysis 16y ago
    Might have a go later at making one that works with urxvt, hopefully that should get it working with xterm. With that said, if it's not working with urxvt/xterm, what is the Xdefaults working with?
    - leif 16y ago
      nothing, got a response on twitter and he said he borked it but will fix next release

496 points by lamnk 16y ago

lamnk 16y ago

Please share your favorite color scheme(s) ! My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk Haven't found any good color scheme for iterm2 yet. Currently i'm using thayer: http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/ http://ecto-plazm.deviantart.com/gallery/

natesm 16y ago
My favorite theme is the "Oblivion" one for gedit, but I don't use gedit, so I remade it for TextMate and Xcode 3/4. http://natestedman.com/post/morrowind-for-textmate-xcode/ http://natestedman.com/post/morrowind-for-textmate-xcode/ I am sitting on a mostly-done vim version right now as well, the GUI colors are all good, but I wiped out the terminal colors (I want them to just be the defaults). I'm not exactly a vim expert and I almost always use the terminal vim exclusively for git commits, which don't really need highlighting, so the motivation to fix those sort of disappeared.
- lamnk 16y ago
  That looks cool, please consider putting your code on github so that others can follow its development.
  - natesm 16y ago
    Here you go: https://github.com/NateStedman/morrowind https://github.com/NateStedman/morrowind Will upload the vim one later after I finish it up.
- wladimir 16y ago
  Another vote for the Oblivion gedit theme. It's very nice. This is supposed to be the version for Eclipse, but it seems that the colors are kind of different, which is a pity: http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=1 http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?view=theme&id=1
rjprins 16y ago
I prefer the emacs color-theme 'tangotango': http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-emacs-color-theme http://blog.nozav.org/post/2010/07/12/Updated-tangotango-ema...
zargon 16y ago
My favorite is ir_black: http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/8 http://blog.toddwerth.com/entries/show/8
- thenduks 16y ago
  IR_White, too! https://github.com/squil/vim_colors/blob/master/IR_White.vim https://github.com/squil/vim_colors/blob/master/IR_White.vim
deleted 16y ago
[deleted]
ilikepi 16y ago
I am currently using darkspectrum[1] for diff output and candycode[2] for everything else. There is a huge gallery of them, viewable with several code samples, on the Vim Color Scheme Test page[3]. [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2215 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2215 [2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1635 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1635 [3] http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/ http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/
tomasr 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words about molokai; took a bit to get it ported, but I've enjoyed it a lot since then. 99% of the props should go to the original authors of monokai and Hamish, though :) Molokai ain't perfect, but I have yet to find one I like more for daily use.
- eddiegroves 16y ago
  Thanks for the port Tomas - been enjoying it for several years. Always leaves a 'mark' when people see it for the first time.
entropie 16y ago
For emacs: https://skitch.com/entropie/ra4ms/emacs-api.rb https://skitch.com/entropie/ra4ms/emacs-api.rb Source: https://github.com/entropie/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/color-theme-bmate.el https://github.com/entropie/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/co...
hansengel 16y ago
I love the Railscasts theme (http://railscasts.com/episodes/258-token-fields http://railscasts.com/episodes/258-token-fields for example), which is what I usually use with Emacs. For iTerm2 I copied over the colors from Visor.app's theme.. but Solarized looks really nice, so maybe I'll soon be using that instead.
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
telemachos 16y ago
After years of dark colorschemes, I'm loving vim-github-theme[1]. [1] https://github.com/acarapetis/vim-github-theme https://github.com/acarapetis/vim-github-theme
adriand 16y ago
I really like Mustang: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2758 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2758 (Screen: http://hcalves.deviantart.com/art/Mustang-Vim-Colorscheme-98974484 http://hcalves.deviantart.com/art/Mustang-Vim-Colorscheme-98...)
simonista 16y ago
I like mustang as well, but I keep coming back to desert: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=105 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=105
ths 16y ago
I mostly use IR_black for vim and emacs, that's definitely a classic. But I'm also quite fond of a custom scheme I made; the colors mostly come from Textmate's Made of Code scheme. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Ui93Q.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Ui93Q.jpg If anyone is interested, the theme is here: http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.vim http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.vim The .vim file started out as IR_black, I just hacked at the colors until I was satisfied, so the code's not clean or anything :) [I also have a OS X terminal theme to go with it, and an emacs version.]
- gnufs 16y ago
  Could you share the emacs theme?
  - ths 16y ago
    http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.el http://notendur.hi.is/ths46/thor.el
jarin 16y ago
I use molokai as well, but with some small tweaks (darker near-black background, lighter more visible comments, and a more visible line highlight). Inconsolata font for life, I've tried just about every other programming font out there and I always keep coming back.
nezumi 16y ago
Wombat: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/ http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...
- andyn 16y ago
  There's also a 256 colour version for use in terminals: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2465
jswanson 16y ago
Used 'elflord' for the longest time, but have lately switched to Koehler. Screenshot with semi-transparent background: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3ORpqSeM1kvLV0lceHpOjw?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3ORpqSeM1kvLV0lceHpOjw...
fourspace 16y ago
I also love thayer for iterm2. Here's the github repo for those schemes: https://github.com/larssmit/iTerm-2-Color-Themes https://github.com/larssmit/iTerm-2-Color-Themes
clvv 16y ago
Lucius: https://github.com/vim-scripts/Lucius https://github.com/vim-scripts/Lucius
aquadoctorbob 16y ago
You might like my molokai-inspired color scheme for xterm: https://gist.github.com/845878 https://gist.github.com/845878
sandGorgon 16y ago
is there a reason why most of these color schemes (including solarized), have a very low contrast for comments - making them difficult to read. I personally use the desert colorcheme (http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.html)
- beaumartinez 16y ago
  Perhaps to make them "stand-out" less (so they don't distract you when you're skimming the code).
  - sandGorgon 16y ago
    this is interesting - colorscheme as a reflection of programming philosophy. I actually tend to read (and write) comments a LOT. Which is why, I simply am not able to use any colorscheme that tries to hide comments.
- notque 16y ago
  Yeah, I'm a huge fan of desert.
ozataman 16y ago
I like nuvola for VIM; it has clean, solid colors.
makeramen 16y ago
I've actually really grown accustomed to Visor's color theme and use it for all my terminal stuff (including vim). http://visor.binaryage.com/ http://visor.binaryage.com/ IR_Black for Textmate though
edambauskas 16y ago
I am using Vim on Windows via an app called Console2. I am not sure how it handles terminal colors. So I just configured Console2 to use Solarized colors and then tried every colorscheme in Vim. "morning" scheme worked best for me. It is so much easier to read my coworkers crammed code.
gurraman 16y ago
I wrote my own scheme: https://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/colors/strange.vim https://github.com/strange/dotfiles/blob/master/.vim/colors/... Python: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/python.png http://files.pipsq.com/strange/python.png Erlang: http://files.pipsq.com/strange/erlang.png http://files.pipsq.com/strange/erlang.png
- phaylon 16y ago
  I just tried this with Perl, and it looks great (the fold-column's a bit bright, but I don't have that on by default). Have you thought about uploading it to vim.org?
  - gurraman 16y ago
    Thank you. Will do.
    - gurraman 16y ago
      Done. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3534 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3534 https://github.com/strange/strange.vim https://github.com/strange/strange.vim
- houk 16y ago
  Those are both really nice. I'm finding after a year or so of IR_Black I'm wanting a change. What's your terminal setup like?
  - gurraman 16y ago
    Thank you. I run tmux inside iTerm2. I'll clean the theme up a little and make an isolated repository. Looks decent in 8-color terminal as well.
1_player 16y ago
I love lettuce.vim: http://i.imgur.com/67LH9.png http://i.imgur.com/67LH9.png You can download it here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1975 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1975 Make sure to enable 256 colors.
2mur 16y ago
In MacVim I tend to switch between molokai and ir_black.
guygurari 16y ago
I use brookstream [1]. It's dark, somewhat low-contrast, with shades of blue and purple. [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=619 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=619
nitrogen 16y ago
I'm using a modified xoria256 in console vim. I gave it a darker background and added some missing colors.
zem 16y ago
desert256

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

moe 16y ago

I don't like this scheme and I don't buy the pseudo-science blurb. It's based on shades of blue. Our eyes are the least sensitive to blue. And what's up with the red and pink, is this some cruel joke? I'll stick with Zenburn[1]. [1] http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/ http://slinky.imukuppi.org/zenburn/

pyre 16y ago
What's the pseudo-science blurb?
- moe 16y ago
  The monotones have symmetric CIELAB lightness differences, so switching from dark to light mode retains the same perceived contrast in brightness between each value. Each mode is equally readable. The accent colors are based off specific colorwheel relations and subsequently translated to CIELAB to ensure perceptual uniformity in terms of lightness. The hues themselves, as with the monotone ab values, have been adjusted within a small range to achieve the most pleasing combination of colors. Blurby enough? ;-)
  - pyre 16y ago
    What part of CIELAB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space) is pseudo-science? I don't see a section on the Wikipedia page about criticisms or controversies.
    - moe 16y ago
      Point taken, I should have been less hand-wavy. CIELAB might not be pseudo-science, but the claim that the application of CIELAB makes this a good scheme is, at best, dubious. The bright red and pink don't blend with the other colors at all. Their jarring contrast (and red hue) could be adequate for an alert message, but not for innocent and frequent syntax elements. Maybe there is a math model that captures all relevant aspects that make a good syntax highlighting color scheme. But this model clearly doesn't.

julian37 16y ago

Someone started porting it to Emacs: https://github.com/sellout/solarized/tree/master/emacs-color-theme-solarized https://github.com/sellout/solarized/tree/master/emacs-color...

daleharvey 16y ago
the emacs port seems a bit too low contrast http://dropup.net/lz64u0ctpcge.png.html http://dropup.net/lz64u0ctpcge.png.html
- parbo 16y ago
  Yes, that seems strange. Does emacs handle gamma differently?
  - sanityinc 16y ago
    Cocoa Emacs doesn't seem to handle gamma at all; the color you set isn't the color you get. I just raised an emacs bug here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8402 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8402
- sanityinc 16y ago
  After investigating this (and raising the aforementioned Emacs bug), I've concluded that sRGB hex colors - as used by Ethan - are simply not the right hex colors to enter in Emacs in order to get the desired results. Instead, Emacs apparently works with Generic RGB values, and after some laborious conversion calculations in Apple's "ColorSync Utility", I got the right results: https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized https://github.com/purcell/color-theme-sanityinc-solarized The color fix will probably get into sellout's repo, so interested parties should prefer that one over mine.
  - spacemanaki 16y ago
    That's awesome! Thank you!
16y ago

kunalb 16y ago

I found the theme rather comfortable for using in the terminal; however I set TERM=xterm-256color so that vim would also pick up the light colour scheme—there seemed to be some issues with the background colour on gnome-terminal/Ubuntu. Thanks!

Adaptive 16y ago
When I was brave enough to test outside of urxvt and iterm2/terminal.app, it seemed that terminal emulators are all over the place in terms of background color support in vim terminal mode. You might have tried this already (and it might not actually be related to your issue), but there is a variable you stick in your vimrc (let g:solarized_termtrans=1) to force it to take the background of your terminal emulator (useful only if you are running with the solarized colors in terminal mode). I should come up with a some recommendations on setting TERM to ensure proper colorscheme support, but that way lies madness (for me at least).

daleharvey 16y ago

Its really rare to see that much thought going into the aesthetics of stereotypically "geeky" applications like vim and terminals, even the website looks entirely different from pretty much every website I have seen around these tools its a refreshing change, awesome work

Adaptive 16y ago
Thanks very much. Looking back at my early hg repos on this project I refined it for about six months. As an aside. I have a nominal post in my head contrasting the development and refinement of a colorscheme like this vs the infamous 41 shades of blue. There is room for refinement and testing in design, but I think it has to be coupled with a clear design goals and opinions.
- edambauskas 16y ago
  Thank you for the work! It would be very interesting to learn about the methods you used to create this. Are you planning to create a palette with more shades? Some time ago I needed lighter Tango tones and created this extended palette: http://emilis.info/other/extended_tango/ http://emilis.info/other/extended_tango/

aidenn0 16y ago

It would be nice to have a script that would start with this as a base, but let you tune the contrast. I like the theme, but would like more contrast than this (I use small fonts, and I really feel like more contrast is necessary when doing so).

Adaptive 16y ago
fwiw, there is a high contrast option in the vim colorscheme (let g:solarized_contrast="high"). I'm working on cleaning up some of the build scripts that generated specific files (the mutt directory has an ugly shell script as an example, there are better ways of course).

tptacek 16y ago

So, my mind is blown that you put so much effort into designing a color scheme, and thanks, but maybe put the img/ directory in your git repo somewhere else, so that a git pull of a color scheme doesn't take 50(!) megs.

Adaptive 16y ago
I was afraid that would be a pain for people, sorry! You're right, I need to do this. There is a reason, which is that the exact same repo does double duty as the webpage (via Hakyll). It's super convenient because I have hakyll process the README out into an index.html (pulling webserver local imgs, so there is some sed magic). I may try to break out the images as another subtree or make a website subtree. It was lower on my list of priorities, but clearly a pain to others cloning/forking. I'll try to sort it before beta2.

mark_story 16y ago

Fantastic work. If I happen upon some spare time I'll try and port it for TextMate users.

_frog 16y ago
Please do, I'd really appreciate it.
- mark_story 16y ago
  I've got a start going in https://github.com/markstory/solarized https://github.com/markstory/solarized
  - larssmit 16y ago
    Great work, Mark! I see you're progressing well with the TextMate themes.
    - tombot 16y ago
      Hey, I've forked Mark's version and added a bunch of specific styles for the Light version, specifically a lot of rules for PHP and CSS. It's not 100% yet, but it's already the best TextMate theme I've ever used. https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized

iwjames 16y ago

Very nice! It is indeed amazing how much thought and effort was put into this, and it is appreciated. At some point, I'll have to convert for Visual Studio use if someone doesn't beat me to it.

flexterra 16y ago

My favorite vim color scheme is two2tango. Here's a preview http://cl.ly/2Y0v251z0A29203K3d3D http://cl.ly/2Y0v251z0A29203K3d3D

brianr 16y ago

I don't know about the rest of you, but my eyes literally started to hurt when I read the text on that page, presumably because of the color of the text v. background. Doesn't bode well for using it in vim... Maybe it looks better on a different monitor? (I have a Samsung LCD.)

jswanson 16y ago
I found the color scheme easy to read. Using a Dell monitor attached to a mac via DVI though, and calibrated to the best of my ability using the OSX calibration tool.
klutometis 16y ago
Bizarrely: I, too, had to strain to read the page; which I attributed, however, to the weight of the font: so thin that it won't render without artifacts.
slashclee 16y ago
What browser are you using? It looks great to me here in Chrome and Safari.
- brianr 16y ago
  Chrome on Mac.
bricestacey 16y ago
You may need to enable ClearType. If on Windows XP. Display Properties > Appearance > Effects
- brianr 16y ago
  I'm on Mac OSX; is there an equivalent?
  - epochwolf 16y ago
    For Snow Leopard: Open System Preferences, go to Appearance, and uncheck "Use LCD font smoothing when available"

sdghrtjt 16y ago

ONLINE STORE: ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== Air jordan(1-24)shoes $30 Handbags(Coach l v f e n d i d&g) $35 Tshirts (Polo ,ed hardy,lacoste) $15 Jean(True Religion,ed hardy,coogi) $30 Sunglasses(Oakey,coach,gucci,A r m a i n i) $15 New era cap $12 Bikini (Ed hardy,polo) $20 accept paypal and free shipping ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )==== ====== ( http://www.fullmalls.com http://www.fullmalls.com )====

meemo 16y ago

Wow. Beautiful colors. Beautiful site. Very impressed by how much effort the author has put into this.

gmaster1440 16y ago

Make it for TextMate ;)

argleblargle 16y ago

Is anybody willing to explain how to switch between light and dark? I can't seem to understand the scss snippet that he gives. Apparently, you only have to switch 4 colors, It would be nice to know what those colors were.

Adaptive 16y ago
I'll be expanding the webpage to detail that, but essentially: base03 = background base02 = background highlight base01 = background data (comments, etc.) base0 = normal text The scheme was designed to allow for: base1 = optional bold/emphasis Just swap the zeros (initially I was using minus/plus, e.g. base-1 and base+1 but this isn't usable across all apps) to swap dark and light modes. There is a good example of this in the vim script as well as the sass snippet (and the mutt compile script if you are a glutton for ugly bash scripts). base3 = light background base2 = dark background etc. You shouldn't need to do any of this manually, however. The vim script has a light/dark mode built in and where there isn't a way to toggle modes I am distributing light and dark versions (the terminal color schemes).
- argleblargle 16y ago
  Thanks! I coulden't find a light version of the Xresources script though, that's why I was wondering about switching.

jzawodn 16y ago

Any chance of publishing the Xresources version (or at least hex codes in that file) for the "white" version?

zaph0d 16y ago
It's here - https://github.com/altercation/solarized/blob/master/xresources-colors-solarized/Xresources https://github.com/altercation/solarized/blob/master/xresour...
- jzawodn 16y ago
  That's the dark version.

aperiodic 16y ago

The 64-bit TerminalColours SIMBL plugin that's linked to in the README doesn't play nicely with binaryage's 64-bit Visor plugin, for some reason. However, Evan Phoenix's fork[1] works perfectly for me. [1] https://github.com/evanphx/terminalcolours/downloads https://github.com/evanphx/terminalcolours/downloads

varikin 16y ago

I made a Solarized dark theme for XCode 4. I used the Vim definition as a guide, though varied it a little while staying within the color palette. https://github.com/varikin/solarized/tree/master/xcode4-colors-solarized https://github.com/varikin/solarized/tree/master/xcode4-colo...

gnufs 16y ago

I would really love to have emacs, gnome-terminal and gedit themes made out of this color scheme.

leif 16y ago

the bold colors are bad, this makes most of my terminal apps annoying as hell (ncmpcpp, byobu, aptitude, htop) for one thing, at least one of the bold text colors is the same as the background, this makes this text not even show up when it's present it would be nice if not for this

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

streeter 16y ago

Anybody know of a TextMate port?

tombot 16y ago
Yep, come and help finish it :) https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized https://github.com/deplorableword/solarized

swaits 16y ago

Does this work in the console (vim)? I currently have desert256 working nicely in iTerm (xterm-256color). I'm away from my computer or I'd test it myself. Thanks! Never seen anyone put this much effort into a color scheme! I actually feel like I personally owe it to you to give this a shot.

lloeki 16y ago
Yes, but the 256 mode is actually an approximation of the real color theme. For exact colors you have to set up the 16 ansi colors of your terminal to the right colors and set a var in vimrc. See the docs for details.

cycojesus 16y ago

any volunteer to submit it for emacs24 @ http://elpa.gnu.org/themes/ http://elpa.gnu.org/themes/ ?

cycojesus 16y ago
Did it @ https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-theme.el https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-them... https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-light-theme.el https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-ligh...

Luyt 16y ago

A bit too much color according to my taste - I like a more subdued color scheme, as seen in http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/kwrite-textanalyse.png http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/kwrite-textanalyse.p... (All black on lightgray, strings dark gray, and prussian blue comments).

lovskogen 16y ago
A norwegian file! Tekstanalyse. Why are the comments in Dutch?
- Luyt 16y ago
  It was a prototype I made for a prospective client. I sometimes use Dutch comments (and variable names) in such a case. Btw, 'Tekstanalyse' is also a Dutch word.

bricestacey 16y ago

I cannot seem to get the colors to render properly on Snow Leopard, using Terminal.app, and vim. Anyone else have any trouble but get it to work? I installed the thing as instructed. I installed SIMBL and the SIMBL plugin, installed Solarized Dark Terminal.app theme, installed vim using pathogen, and set .vimrc with the additional g:solorized_termcolors=16 option.

mduvall 16y ago
Go to Applications > Utilities, right-click on Terminal.app and set 32-bit mode. Hope that helps!

rane 16y ago

I love the effort put into this, but somehow the background is way too light for my taste, in vim the colorscheme is kind of bland.

xiaomai 16y ago

I haven't looked into how one can export gnome-terminal color palettes yet, but if anyone else is interested, I think these are the correct settings in gconf: /apps/gnome-terminal/palette: #070736364242:#D3D336368282:#B5B589890000:#CBCB4B4B1616:#2A2AA1A19898:#6C6C7171C4C4:#858599990000:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#D3D301010202:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#26268B8BD2D2:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 /apps/gnome-terminal/background_color: #00002B2B3636 /apps/gnome-terminal/foreground_color: #65657B7B8383 Edit: Ok, I pulled down the source for gnome-terminal since I couldn't find a way to export/import color schemes. The color palettes are all hard-coded, so that is unfortunate :(.

graywh 16y ago
You can edit the custom palette (it gets saved in .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/XXXX/%gconf.xml).
- xiaomai 16y ago
  agreed, but there is no mechanism for importing/exporting additional color schemes (I guess you could export an entire profile, but that entails quite a bit more than just color schemes).
xiaomai 16y ago
Ok, I think I had this wrong and it looks like I've hit a limit on editing my post. Here's the right values (I hope): (All values are in /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default): palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 background_color: #00002B2B3636 foreground_color: #65657B7B8383
- Tharkun 16y ago
  And here's the Light version: palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268 B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B363 6:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6 C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3 background_color: #FDFDF6F6E3E3 foreground_color: #00002B2B3636 (Same palette, just different FG and BG colours)

pyre 16y ago

Anyone get a chance to test out how this looks with vimdiff? That's one area that usually ends up looking fugly b/c the theme creator neglected to look at it. Other areas that are typically neglected (though not in this case): code folding, split buffer dividers.

ilikepi 16y ago
Here's a vimdiff sample from the rvm repo... http://i.imgur.com/IMdt5.png http://i.imgur.com/IMdt5.png

JulianMorrison 16y ago

I really don't get the terminal color assignments. Why are the brfoo colors set to grey?

bloom 16y ago

It's a remarkable work. Although, on the dark background, the red and the magenta colors are too saturated.

stevejalim 16y ago

I don't mean to sound particularly thick here, but is there a way to apply these colours to my OSX Terminal too? I've installed the bundle for Terminal.app, and they look lovely in emacs, but can I use them in my general bash environment, too?

streeter 16y ago
Yes, the directions are on GitHub: https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/osx-ter... Once you've activated that theme in Terminal.app's preferences, all your colors in the shell will use the colors defined in the colorscheme. So red will be the red in the colorscheme, blue -> blue, etc.
- stevejalim 16y ago
  Thanks - seems to be working a treat here. Cheers!
raju 16y ago
How did you get it for emacs? Perhaps I am the one being thick here ... :-/
- stevejalim 16y ago
  It just worked, or at least, seems to be working :o)

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

deleted 16y ago

[deleted]

lbolla 16y ago

I tried to install the iTerm2 colorscheme and also the vim colorscheme, but they look nowhere near the screenshots. Anyone having issues like this?

landhar 16y ago
My vim renders everything way darker (or perhaps is just that there is not as much contrast) than in the screenshots. I double checked that I am using xterm-256color (and also checked against rxvt-unicode-256color). It's too bad, I really like how it looks in your screenshots, but in my computer not so much...

GrandMasterBirt 16y ago

Request for intellij impl.

PonyGumbo 16y ago

Am I the only coder who doesn't like working with light text on a dark background? I have 20/20 vision, and I find it really uncomfortable to use these.

grayrest 16y ago
My theory is that it depends on when/where you normally work. If you have a tendency to code at night or in dark rooms, dark on light is very bright. At least, that's why I go light on dark.
- PonyGumbo 16y ago
  That makes sense. I work from home in a room that's all windows.

antihero 16y ago

It looks nice, is there a tmTheme file? Currently I use TwilightMod, which is as the name suggests, a modification of Twilight. This is what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/u802t.png http://i.imgur.com/u802t.png Get it here https://gist.github.com/809720 https://gist.github.com/809720

maayank 16y ago

Any chance someone can pull an Eclipse Color Theme version? (pretty please :)

oh_no_my_eyes 16y ago
check it http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?list=all&q=solar http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/?list=all&q=solar
- maayank 16y ago
  Could be that I'm missing something, but the dark versions don't seem to be the same as in solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/img/solarized/solarized-screen-java-dark.png http://ethanschoonover.com/img/solarized/solarized-screen-ja...

freedrull 16y ago

Does the font on the website look extremely blurry for anyone else...?

redsparrow 16y ago

I was interested in seeing what the colour palettes might look like in the real world. Here's are the some multicolr searches for the 5-colour palettes: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,586e75,839496,93a1a1,d30102 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,586e75,8394...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e75,657b83,b58900 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,93a1a1,eee8d5,fdf6e3,268bd2 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,93a1a1,eee8...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,839496,93a1a1,eee8d5,cb4b16 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=657b83,839496,93a1...; http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,93a1a1,eee8d5,d33682,6c71c4 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=073642,93a1a1,eee8...; A search with just the base colours: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e75,657b83,839496,93a1a1,eee8d5,fdf6e3 http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=002b36,073642,586e...;

Adaptive 16y ago
Man, I love those sets. Hadn't used that site before but it's awesome. Very nice to see the stark ocean and ink in water in the last set. Not too far off from the deep ocean feel I was targeting during design. Thanks. Great links.

retrovirus 16y ago

Any chance for gedit and gnome terminal versions? Fantastic scheme, would donate my kidney for a gedit port

jdorenbush 16y ago
https://github.com/mukashi/solarized/tree/master/gedit-colors-solarized https://github.com/mukashi/solarized/tree/master/gedit-color...

sashthebash 16y ago

Am I the only person on HN that just happily uses the default color schemes that comes with editors?

freiheit 16y ago
Just about, yes.

john2x 16y ago

I made a simple Pygments version[1] for use on my website. I immediately thought it was perfect for my site, but I'm sticking to molokai for Vim. Thanks! [1]: https://bitbucket.org/john2x/solarized-pygment https://bitbucket.org/john2x/solarized-pygment

neurolysis 16y ago

When I use this in my .Xdefaults, my terminal emulator (urxvt) goes hot pink ( http://ompldr.org/vODRtMg/2011-04-05-165103_1024x600_scrot.png http://ompldr.org/vODRtMg/2011-04-05-165103_1024x600_scrot.p... ), any ideas?

leif 16y ago
mine goes all blue, it's awful and I haven't found anyone with this problem. Looks great in vim but it's unusable for urxvt/xterm (and also emacs). edit: http://imgur.com/OMjdR http://imgur.com/OMjdR
- neurolysis 16y ago
  Might have a go later at making one that works with urxvt, hopefully that should get it working with xterm. With that said, if it's not working with urxvt/xterm, what is the Xdefaults working with?
  - leif 16y ago
    nothing, got a response on twitter and he said he borked it but will fix next release