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Re: Solarized

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Post by Aeolun »

Aissen wrote: post #60

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-port... Even the open source and professional theme Dracula seem to rely on manual porting: https://github.com/dracula/dracu…

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.

Re: Solarized

#62

Post by kseistrup »

alexruf wrote: post #42

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/ ) 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 i…

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.

Re: Solarized

#63

Post by tmtvl »

sbuk wrote: post #24
pjerem wrote: post #20

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.

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.

I also prefer light colour schemes. Didn't use to, I used dark themes (like gruvbox) for a while, until I learned the value of not having my monitors blast my eyes with 100% brightness. Solarised actually helped me go from dark to light themes as the yellowish background and lower contrast were easier on my eyes than white and high contrast.

Even since I learned to turn down my monitor brightness so that white on my monitor is about the same brightness as a white piece of paper in the room, I have been very fond of Prot's Modus Operandi (https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes).

Re: Solarized

#64

Post by kseistrup »

Anyone here using 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

Re: Solarized

#65

Post by wahlis »

luispauloml wrote: post #29
pjerem wrote: post #20

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.

Up until I read your comment, I never really made any association between my astigmatism and my discomfort with dark themes. Now it all makes sense. Also, since too much white was never a problem for me, my theme of choice in Emacs is Nano Light¹ and Solarized anywhere else. ¹ https://github.com/rougier/nano-theme

Same for me, I also have astigmatism and issues with dark themes. Thanks for the insight!

Re: Solarized

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Post by alexruf »

kseistrup wrote: post #62
alexruf wrote: post #42

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/ ) 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 i…

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.

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.

Re: Solarized

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Post by Aeolun »

kseistrup wrote: post #64

Anyone here using 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…

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.

Re: Solarized

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Post by Aeolun »

Tade0 wrote: post #47
dngray wrote: post #43

I used to use solarized, but switched to selenized some time ago. https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w... Never looked back. Next best theme would have to be nordtheme.com

The author of Selenized is known in some circles for applying the same meticulous approach to make some absolutely mad cheesecake.

This is a solid reason to try out the theme.

Re: Solarized

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Post by roydivision »

Tade0 wrote: post #47
dngray wrote: post #43

I used to use solarized, but switched to selenized some time ago. https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w... Never looked back. Next best theme would have to be nordtheme.com

The author of Selenized is known in some circles for applying the same meticulous approach to make some absolutely mad cheesecake.

You can't just leave that there without some sort of reference. Cursory searches haven't revealed anything. I now must try this cheesecake.

Re: Solarized

#70

Post by elric »

sbuk wrote: post #24
pjerem wrote: post #20

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.

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.

You're not the only one. There are dozens of us, probably, who prefer lighter colour schemes. I can't stand dark mode in all but a few cases. A terminal is sort of fine, but an IDE or a content-rich webpage absolute has to be light, otherwise my eyes start to get funky.
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