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Solarized

• Ecco 4y ago
  I’ve been using it for probably over 5 years now. I love it. Thanks Ethan!
• freediver 4y ago
  Is there a version for Sublime Text?
  • Brajeshwar 4y ago
    Is this the one? https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Solarized%20Color%20Scheme https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Solarized%20Color%20Schem...
• flobosg 4y ago
  Are there other light color schemes similar to Solarized? The only one I have found is “Base16 Atelier Dune Light”: https://base16.netlify.app/previews/base16-atelier-dune-light.html https://base16.netlify.app/previews/base16-atelier-dune-ligh... EDIT: Thanks for the suggestions!
  • dsissitka 4y ago
    You might like one of the lighter gruvbox variations: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e814989a4842426cbafd88f51cc7f4e0ebc9a211b57ec5709b127a090fb20065/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f354d53626536542e706e67 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e814989a4842426cbafd88f51... https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
  • bradrn 4y ago
    Gruvbox [https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox] has always seemed quite similar to me, particularly in its light modes.
  • nikvdp 4y ago
    catppuccin [1] is similar, had been using solarized for almost a decade, but tried catppuccin about 6 months ago and it was so good I’ve switched over permanently. Like solarized there are light and dark variants and there are versions for vim and vs code and many other editors as well. [1] https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin
  • aorth 4y ago
    Selenized! Is also well thought out and available for the terminal, IDEs, vim, tmux, etc. https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized
    • tommica 4y ago
      Nice share, gotta check this one out!
  • cpojer 4y ago
    Check out licht-theme: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cnakazawa.licht-theme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cnakazaw... And the corresponding dunkel-theme: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cnakazawa.dunkel-theme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cnakazaw... I have a bunch of set-up tips on how to use these across all tools here: https://cpojer.net/posts/the-perfect-development-environment https://cpojer.net/posts/the-perfect-development-environment
  • sbuk 4y ago
    Just posted this in response to another thread. If you’re a Sublime Text user, you might like Breakers.
  • osener 4y ago
    Rosé Pine Dawn https://github.com/rose-pine/vscode https://github.com/rose-pine/vscode Flatwhite (available for emacs as doom-flatwhite) https://github.com/biletskyy/flatwhite-syntax https://github.com/biletskyy/flatwhite-syntax gruvbox-light Nüshu https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wheredoesyourmindgo.nushu-vscode-theme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wheredoe... These are the soft light themes I enjoyed after Solarized Light.
• onionisafruit 4y ago
  Any time I use some new software that can be themed I look for the solarized dark theme. It’s just dark enough without being too high contrast.
  • alwillis 4y ago
    Same. Haven’t used it lately; need to check if it’s been updated for truecolor terminal emulators like Kitty or WezTerm. Big fan of Tokyo Night for Neovim these days: https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim
• phailhaus 4y ago
  Legendary color scheme, been using it for pretty much my entire career. My go-to has been using the light scheme for terminal and dark for vim. Can't live without it!
• masswerk 4y ago
  Mind that the BBEdit information and format is out of date. Updated files can be found at the original project repository [1]. Moreover, due to containerization the "Color Schemes" directory has meanwhile moved and is now at `~/Library/Containers/com.barebones.bbedit/Data/Library/Application\ Support/BBEdit/Color\ Schemes`. (This can be simply navigated to from within BBEdit via the "BBEdit" menu > "Folders" > "Color Shemes". This will open the folder in the Finder, just copy the `*.bbColorScheme` files there.) [1] https://github.com/rcarmo/textwrangler-bbedit-solarized https://github.com/rcarmo/textwrangler-bbedit-solarized
  • rcarmo 4y ago
    Thanks for this. I will add an issue so I can note that in the docs.
    • masswerk 4y ago
      Thanks for providing the color schemes!
• D13Fd 4y ago
  I used Solarized for a long time, but now I’ve moved on to newer themes. For some reason Solarized just looks outdated to me.
  • andbberger 4y ago
    > but now I’ve moved on to newer themes care to share?
    • monkpit 4y ago
      Not the poster but I personally really dig Oceanic Next
    • INTPenis 4y ago
      Not the poster but I moved on to Nord from Solarized and am quite happy.
  • thiht 4y ago
    > For some reason Solarized just looks outdated to me That might just be some kind of fatigue because I've experienced the opposite recently! I've been a happy user of Visual Studio Code's default dark theme for a few years, and one day I snapped and just couldn't stand looking at it anymore. I switched to Solarized Light (yeah) and I find it extremely refreshing. I just had to tweak the color for "deleted block" in the scrollbar which was way too close to the "compilation error" color. I guess some people just need change sometimes!
• AceJohnny2 4y ago
  I credit Solarized with setting the baseline allowing proper "dark" themes to be more commonplace. I'm going out on a limb, but perhaps macOS' Dark Mode, or VSCode's dark mode, wouldn't exist without Solarized blazing that path. It's kinda funny how, before Solarized, I would see tons of gimmicky themes like some that were going for a Matrix or "classic terminal" feel, going all in on a certain theme but eschewing real usefulness. I want my basic terminal colors to remain adjacent to their intended hues! I want different keywords/tokens in my code to be distinguishable! Ethan's application of color theory/science to the landscape was like a beacon in the darkness. Before Solarized, I used Zenburn (I actually still do in some environments, I'm not too keen on the blueish hue of Solarized backround.) I also like Tango Light/Dark.
  • soulofmischief 4y ago
    I feel like we've had a similar theme journey. These days I use darcula and its derivatives I some places, Solarized in others. Tango dark as well. And fond memories with Zenburn. Monokai gets an honorable mention.
  • 29athrowaway 4y ago
    If you used Borland C++, DBase, Lotus 123, WordStar and others... or used a monochromatic monitor (green, cyan or white on black), you used light text on a dark background. By 2010, when Solarized appeared, the larger portion of the people that started coding on a light text on dark background had already retired. Solarized did a good job in terms of distribution, I give you that 100%. But it is not the most important theme in history or anything of the sort.
    • mihaic 4y ago
      Not sure why you're downvoted, but anyone that fondly remembers the "Borland Blue" days probably agrees with you.
      • _0ffh 4y ago
        Certainly! I remember being quite annoyed when I started encountering editors/IDEs, that would not let me type light-on-dark!
• jes5199 4y ago
  I’ve always felt like the contrast was too low, feels harder to read
  • ziml77 4y ago
    I have the same issue with Solarized. I need something with just a little more contrast. One Dark is more like what I want. But even that's not perfect. The color for comments (as with many dark themes) is too dim. Comments shouldn't stand out, but they should also be easy to read when needed. I think that Visual Studio's dark color scheme actually does great there. The green comments separate themselves well from the code, don't draw too much attention to themselves, and they're still clear when you're trying to read them.
    • onli 4y ago
      I think that comments should stand out and modified solarized accordingly in my editors. I made it a bright lightish green (in dark mode) in my main editor. If you haven't yet, I can only recommend to give that a try. Justification: A comment that exists should only exist if it is important, if it is helpful documentation for a function or for some specific code section. If that's the case then a comment should absolutely be the first thing you see, thus it should stand out. That sound a bit like I would advocate to comment less, but that hasn't been the effect of that change. To the contrary, I'd say it was a factor in my placing more (in my eyes important) comments in code bases than many other developers I work with.
  • bscphil 4y ago
    Yeah, a good example of this is here - IMO the background color is just much too bright for the base text color to be so dark. You need a little contrast in the luminosity, even if you have perfect color vision. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/altercation/solarized/master/img/screen-c-dark.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/altercation/solarized/mast...
  • trymas 4y ago
    I concur 100%. It's rather thought out colour scheme and kudos for the success, but contrast is way too low. My eyes got tired very fast while trying to use solarized scheme. I've stuck with `Tomorrow Night Bright` for quite some time now as I enjoy the scheme and the contrastiness of it, though I tweaked it that the text is almost pure white and background is almost pure black.
• dang 4y ago
  Related: Solarized is gone? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776581 - Aug 2018 (3 comments) The Man Behind ‘Solarized,’ the Most Important Color Scheme in Computer History - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10525589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10525589 - Nov 2015 (1 comment) Solarized on The Changelog - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3776077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3776077 - March 2012 (4 comments) Solarized color theme for Emacs 24 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3308271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3308271 - Dec 2011 (11 comments) Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393976 - March 2011 (154 comments)
• pjerem 4y ago
  As someone with an important astigmatism, I cannot stare more than a few minutes at a dark background color scheme, even if I love their aesthetic. So I’m stuck writing code all day long with light schemes. In this context, Solarized is a gift and I’m grateful for it. I just cannot name another light color scheme you could stare at all day long without burning your eyes.
  • bpye 4y ago
    Yep. I tried for a while to use dark themes but eventually realised they were making it worse, not better. Even if Solarized isn't the best light theme in existence, it's also available either built in or an extension for practically every tool I use.
  • tommica 4y ago
    I've found both gruvbox and github light theme to be something that my eyes can handle.
  • sbuk 4y ago
    I’m a weird freakish anomaly that actually prefers lighter color schemes. I’ve found that, with some tweaks, the default light scheme in Sublime Text to be pretty awesome. It’s calle Breakers. The greys are a little too light, but I find there is a bit more contrast than Solarized.
    • cornedor 4y ago
      Dark mode isn't necessary better for your eyes than light mode [1]. I prefer a consistent lightning more, and that is often easier done with light mode. Although, this is getting better since more and more sites and apps implement it. However, not all, this results in sometimes being surprised by a white flash after browsing through some darker sites. 1: https://www.allaboutvision.com/digital-eye-strain/is-dark-mode-better-for-eyes/ https://www.allaboutvision.com/digital-eye-strain/is-dark-mo...
      • dngray 4y ago
• Archelaos 4y ago
  On my screen, Base 2 and Base 3 or respectively Base 02 and Base 03 appear to be quite close. The difference seems to be sufficient for highlighting a whole line, but when used to highlight individual characters they do not stick out enough, so that I need to search for them on the screen.
• Lapsa 4y ago
  my 2nd favorite color scheme after Archery https://github.com/Badacadabra/vim-archery/blob/master/images/screenshot.png https://github.com/Badacadabra/vim-archery/blob/master/image...
• aszantu 4y ago
  and here I am, clicking on this because I thought it's about solar power, can we stop this trend of using words for products that already have some other meaning?
  • cton 4y ago
    Solarisation is a photographic technique
• INTPenis 4y ago
  I used Solarized a long time but recently I've been a Nord.
• mmackh 4y ago
  I've been a big fan of Solarized Light and have been using it for over 10 years, everywhere. Even based my personal site design around it. Thank you.
• manx 4y ago
  This reminds me of my fun experiments with color distances and genetic algorithms to automatically generate solarized-like color schemes: https://github.com/fdietze/chromogene https://github.com/fdietze/chromogene
• kingkongjaffa 4y ago
  Solarized was my first contact with making my terminal look nice and matching it with my editors etc. Nowadays I use nord everywhere but when I first followed the oh-my-zsh + iterm2 tutorials for OSX, I definitely used Solarized for a good 6 months. Nord: https://www.nordtheme.com/ https://www.nordtheme.com/
• alexruf 4y ago
  Does someone know of a tool that helps to generate the themes for the individual applications based on your preferred color scheme? I am currently using Dracula (https://draculatheme.com/ https://draculatheme.com/) as color scheme. Not that it is my favourite color scheme (actually I don’t like it’s colours at all), but the fact that the creator is providing ready to use themes for almost every application is the main reason for me to use it. I want a consistent look across all of my applications.
  • kseistrup 4y ago
    It ought to be possible to do a search/replace operation on dracula themes to get e.g. solarized everywhere. It would be useful with a public repository with [e.g.] solarized theme for “all” applications, the same way Dracula Theme has.
    • alexruf 4y ago
      Actually that’s a fantastic idea. Should have thought of that for myself. But as a warning, a lot of the Dracula themes are are not correctly (for some reason especially the Dracula Pro themes). For example the iTerm and Kitty theme have same foreground and background color set so I had to fix them manually. Doesn’t seem that they are tested by the author.
      • kseistrup 4y ago
        Right, if the dracula files are incorrect then it's gonna be a mess.
  • nilueps 4y ago
    https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
  • kensuke155 4y ago
    I use Base16 to apply Dracula across my terminal applications. https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
• dngray 4y ago
  I used to use solarized, but switched to selenized some time ago. https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-wrong-with-solarized.md https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w... Never looked back. Next best theme would have to be nordtheme.com
  • Tade0 4y ago
    The author of Selenized is known in some circles for applying the same meticulous approach to make some absolutely mad cheesecake.
    • Aeolun 4y ago
      This is a solid reason to try out the theme.
    • roydivision 4y ago
      You can't just leave that there without some sort of reference. Cursory searches haven't revealed anything. I now must try this cheesecake.
      • Tade0 4y ago
        All on GitHub. Unfortunately in Polish, but I suppose you could create an issue to have this translated: The keyword you're looking for is "sernik". https://github.com/jan-warchol/przepisy-programisty https://github.com/jan-warchol/przepisy-programisty EDIT: pull requests with translations are welcome, but you'd have to speak Polish first, which takes us back to square one. Google translate is half-decent with this language though, so you might be able to run off of that.
  • bjackman 4y ago
    Thanks I'll try this - I have discovered exactly the problem described i.e. Solarized does not have enough contrast when using shitty monitors or in a very bright room. Normally I just switch to a random high contrast theme on those days but maybe Selenized would be a universal solution.
• Quequau 4y ago
  I use a Firefox browser extension called "Dark Reader" [1] to force a dark mode on most of the websites I frequent and I'm more or less happy with it. If there was an extension that Solarized them instead, I'd probably go with that instead. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader
  • tigrisc 4y ago
    You can go to color options in darkreader and set solarized as the theme.
    • stefantalpalaru 4y ago
• deliriumchn 4y ago
  solarized dark was my fav theme for a couple of years until I found Ayu (especially ayu mirage). Its a bit easier for my eyes and I very like the color palette. If someone is looking for soft and easy to read theme I always suggest to try one of Ayu ones (they have 3 + 3 bordered)
  • foozed 4y ago
    I really like ayu (mirage is my favorite as well) and pretty much use the colors everywhere except for syntax highlighting where I just can't switch away from monokai pro.
• mgdv 4y ago
  Again, I started with solarized but moved onto other themes. I think it was one of the first themes that was implemented almost everywhere. It was nice to have my browser, IDE, window manager etc all themed up the same way. I also appreciate the work he went into to set the color scheme up. I feel the same spirit with the Modus themes[1] for emacs [1] https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes
• zasdffaa 4y ago
  I don't buy this eg. > Black text on white from a computer display is akin to reading a book in direct sunlight and tires the eye. No it doesn't. I don't know where that claim comes from. In sunlight reading is reduced through glare. Personally his red on black makes those words unreadable. I really doubt his claims of testing it. But good luck to those who it does work for.
• Aissen 4y ago
  Has anyone done a cross-app configuration tool for color themes yet ? It seems most themes just reimplement everything. For example, I like tokyonight, but it seems everyone needs to port it to their favorite tool, just like solarized did: https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme#other-portings https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme#other-port... Even the open source and professional theme Dracula seem to rely on manual porting: https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme
  • Aeolun 4y ago
    I’ve certainly thought of it. In aggregate it would save everyone a lot of work, but it’s never really been worth the time for me personally.
  • M1Sports20 4y ago
    Base16 colors - https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 https://github.com/chriskempson/base16
• kseistrup 4y ago
  Anyone here using Penumbra? https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra > »Penumbra is a mathematically balanced colour scheme constructed in a perceptually uniform colour space with base colours inspired by the shades of colour occurring in nature due to the light of the sun and the sky. It cleanly separates the perceptual properties of colours while optimally utilizing the available colour space of typical displays.« It was mentioned here ~3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348461
  • Aeolun 4y ago
    For some reason I find it really hard to look at. Everything has the same weight (in terms of color, if that makes sense), and I need some things to stand out, not just have a different color.
    • kseistrup 4y ago
      Thanks for the mini-review.
  • KolenCh 4y ago
    This seems interesting. But the claim about being "mathematically balanced" is skeptical to me. It seems it does better than Solarized which claimed a similar but weaker statement. The nasty details in color space is basically that it is a non-Euclidean metric (when considering perceptual uniformity). There are empirical formula describing a metric. And one can probably numerically optimize in that metric. But it doesn't seem to do something like that (I skimmed through only.)
    • kseistrup 4y ago
      I agree, the “mathematically balanced” is a peculiar sales pitch. Are our eyes “mathematically balanced”? If not, then the palette probably shouldn't be either.
      • deleted 4y ago
• cgeier 4y ago
  I loved solarized when it was new (to me). But after several years, I couldn't stand looking at those blue tones all day. I switched (in vim) to gruvbox [0] (better maintained "community" edition [1]), which also has a dark and a light version, which is a lot warmer. 0: https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox 1: https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox thanks, hatsubishi, for pointing out the typo in the second link!
  • hatsubishi 4y ago
    It's https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox
  • iterati 4y ago
    This is the same reason I went to gruvbox from solarized. The warmer colors keep their contrast even with Flux[0] late into the night. 0: https://justgetflux.com/ https://justgetflux.com/
  • xwowsersx 4y ago
    Same. I regularly switch between light and dark mode. For me, dark feels more comfortable in the short-term, but I find that I can't use dark for an entire day. Anyways, I previously used solarized. It's very pleasant for a certain period of time, but like many color themes that I like, it doesn't actually "scale" in the sense that I can't use it for extended periods of time. Gruvbox, on the other hand, I can use for very long stretches.
    • aasasd 4y ago
      I heard that astigmatism is the reason some people find reading white-on-black intolerable: the edges shift from their proper places, look doubled, this kind of stuff. Idk if astigmatism-correcting glasses fix the problem, as I'm not that diligent with my prescriptions. Personally, somehow I'm ok with looking at code and some notes in light-gray-on-black, but reading paragraphs of text is immediately off-putting. The proliferation of ‘dark theme’ sites is not working out for me.
• trabant00 4y ago
  I find Solarized, zenburn, and other low contrast dark themes too hard to read in bright environments. And I try to always work in a decently bright environment. Which leads me to the following question: has anybody migrated from dark themes to light themes after years of use? I've always had my terminal and my editor dark, but my browser light. I have a hard time reading long text like prose or forums in dark mode. So that makes me wonder if my code and terminal could also be better in light themes and I just have to struggle to get rid of my dark theme habit.
• napolux 4y ago
  Came here for the alternatives in comments, not disappointed, thanks!
• sitta 4y ago
  It's odd to me that there's essentially no competition to Solarized Light when it comes to light color schemes, and all of the focus is on dark. Personally, I don't like dark themes and find them way harder to read. I love Solarized Light, but I do sometimes wish there were a few more options available for light users. Funnily enough, I lived next to Ethan for a few years in Seattle, and was not a solarized user prior to meeting him. Thanks Ethan!
  • markeibes 4y ago
    That is simply not true. I can recommend Kai Light, Espresso Light, XCode Classic Light, Horizon Light off the top of my head.
    • sitta 4y ago
      Thank you for the recommendations. I will check them out. To be fair, it's been a couple years since I last looked, and at that time it wasn't that there were _no_ other light themes, but there were very few and they were not nearly as good as Solarized, which I guess is a personal preference. But, I really do appreciate the recommendations, and look forward to trying some new colors.
      • iterati 4y ago
        Default gruvbox light's background is a bit too dark, but light+hard has been my goto for the last 6 years or so.
      • markeibes 4y ago
        . I can probably give you more if you don't like the ones I mentioned but the chance of a taste overlap are pretty slim then I guess.
  • yakubin 4y ago
    I use Alabaster[1]. Contrary to most themes, it is quite minimalistic and it emphasises comments instead of de-emphasising them. I like the minimalism, because it lets me focus, instead of marking every single thing on the screen as a different colour of “important” making my head spin. [1]: <https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster>
• don_albrecht 4y ago
  I give solarized a lot of credit. Before it came out I pretty much stuck with whatever default theme my application used. After using solarized I started caring about my tools much more. Today, I tend to use Darcula most of the time for IDEs, but I also spend much more time customizing my tools beyond just the theme.
• djha-skin 4y ago
  I use solarized light everywhere. It sounds silly because everyone likes using a dark theme but I do it on purpose because I'm often coding from a bus stop or somewhere else outside. With a light theme it's much easier to see the screen even with full sun and glare on the screen. This is not possible with the dark theme. I also have glare coming through a window at work that is in a new office and so there's no window blinds yet. The solarized light theme helps me continue to be able to see what's on my screen no matter what's happening and I appreciate that. I'll switch back to a dark theme if I need to when I'm on a long trip and it's at night and I'm in the car so I don't disturb the driver with my screen. I like that I can switch back and forth with using the same theme and that the light theme is so well thought out.
  • wwkeyboard 4y ago
    I use the same, solarized light is surprisingly easy to read when sitting on a patio or at a coffee shop.
  • sciuromorpha_ 4y ago
    Slight tangent, but you're OFTEN coding from a bus stop?! Why?
    • djha-skin 4y ago
      Because I commute home on a bus. Public transportation is part of my daily commute and I like coding in my spare time.
      • _whiteCaps_ 4y ago
        I'm jealous of your ability to avoid motion sickness!
  • tasuki 4y ago
    I too use Solarized Light. Apart from better readability outside, another reason for me to use the light theme is that many other things I look at use a light theme (eg HN), and switching between my terminal/ide with a dark theme and a browser with (usually) light websites was jarring.
• abraxas 4y ago
  This resembles the colour theme of NEdit on Irix as I remember it from the mid nineties. Hmm, I got nostalgic saying this. Now I'm going to hunt the exact replica of that theme.
• JRKrause 4y ago
  Roughly translated Solarized over to Altium years ago if you're into that kind of thing: https://github.com/JohnKrause/Altium-Solarized https://github.com/JohnKrause/Altium-Solarized
• acedTrex 4y ago
  This is my daily driver in every editor/ide. I make custom themes for the small places i want to tweak the colors
• Adaptive 4y ago
  Developer of Solarized here. Glad that it continues to be a popular design. I've let the github languish and regret that. Luckily since it's just a color scheme the website and info on github has been enough for it to continue to propagate. There have been plenty of other color schemes that I think it's safe to say have been inspired by Solarized and this is very satisfying to see. Many of them have done a better job at thinking through the git structure of their projects :)
  • sriharis 4y ago
    Thank you! :) I love solarized.
  • tasuki 4y ago
    > Many of them have done a better job at thinking through the git structure of their projects :) Perhaps so. I've attempted to find some other color scheme. The most significant color scheme change I was able to stomach during the last ten years was from Solarized Dark to Solarized Light. Thank you <3
  • teucris 4y ago
    Thanks so much for Solarized. Really changed the way I think about syntax highlighting and UI! Have you run common color/font configurations from Solarized through WCAG’s contrast checking tools? As I create more and more UIs I’ve become increasingly aware of contrast for accessibility and I was wondering what your thoughts were in this regard.
    • Adaptive 4y ago
      I didn't run Solarized through WCAG when designing it (I don't believe that was around when I was designing it, though I could be wrong) but I did design it to enable high contrast use (this is mentioned on the site but sometimes overlooked in implementations). The highest contrast base tones as background / foreground colors (base03+base3) do pass with a 13.91:1 ratio. In "low contrast" mode, Solarized passes all but WCAG AAA with a value of 4.74:1. As my eyes age I often use Solarized in higher contrast configuration, so I'm sensitive to this issue.
• sorcercode 4y ago
  I moved from Solarized to Monokai Pro. And it’s hard been to switch out to any other theme. Monokai was Sublime’s default but I urge folks to specifically look at the Pro version here. https://monokai.pro/ https://monokai.pro/
  • foozed 4y ago
    Same for me. I've been using monokai and, since it came out, monokai pro. Every year or so I look at what new themes are out there and try the popular ones for a bit but nothing hits that sweet spot of aesthetically pleasing and functional so well for me.
• blastro 4y ago
  Solarized dark for me, and I boost the blue tones in the background colors. Love it. Thank you!
• AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
  Can anyone speak to the origin of the name? I had heard that the color scheme resembled the color choices on Solaris workstation terminals, but that origin seems to be erroneous.
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