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Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by Adaptive »

moe wrote: post #19
pyre wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the pseudo-science blurb?

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 a b values, have been adju…

I hope that doesn't turn too many other folks off from the page and colorscheme. It may sound like a pseudoscience blurb, particularly if you aren't a color geek, but I sure didn't intend it to. It's all technically relevant and (I thought ;) tightly descriptive.

Lab was actually a big part of the initial inspiration for the colorscheme. I work a lot in lab space (Lab is more correct, but cumbersome to type) and for anything related to actual human vision it is head and shoulders above other color models/spaces. It's also awkward if you think in RGB and notoriously poorly supported outside of Photoshop (though most OS color management systems that I'm aware of translate everything back into Lab or a Lab equivalent).

The color relations are also foundational to palette creation in traditional graphic design. They are super useful in creating a palette that feels harmonious and (subjectively) unified.

I'd be happy to go into more detail, but I tend to go on at length and, much like when I get into talking about code with people not interested in code, talking about color spaces with those not interested is a sure fire turn off :)

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by ths »

lamnk wrote: post #2

Please share your favorite color scheme(s) ! My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: 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/

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

If anyone is interested, the theme is here:

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.]

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by Adaptive »

kunalb wrote: post #12

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!

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).

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by Adaptive »

tptacek wrote: post #29

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.

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.

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by jarin »

lamnk wrote: post #2

Please share your favorite color scheme(s) ! My favorite for gvim/MacVim is molokai: http://winterdom.com/2008/08/molokaiforvim , seconded by vividchalk when i'm on the terminal: 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/

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.

Re: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators

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Post by bmj »

moe wrote: post #9

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/

I was a dedicated IR_Black user (in both VIM and Visual Studio), and didn't think highly of this at first. But after about an hour, it's grown on me. If I can scrape together some time, I'll throw together a VS2010 color scheme/theme.
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