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Re: Solarized

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Post by iterati »

cgeier wrote: post #75

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 1: https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox thanks, hatsubishi, for pointing out the typo in the second link!

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/

Re: Solarized

#102

Post by Fnoord »

29athrowaway wrote: post #46
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #14

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 re…

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 importan…

I don't remember C=64 colors (friends had one, we did not) but my PC had MSDOS. The text editor was blue background, grey or white foreground. But DOS itself was gray on black. And I used DOS as my OS because it was lightweight.

Re: Solarized

#103

Post by sirtomato »

yakubin wrote: post #95
sitta wrote: post #82

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 prio…

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 >

One of my favorite themes has a light grey for everything except strings (light blue) and comments (white). Comments are super important, they should stand out.

Re: Solarized

#104

Post by nilueps »

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…

https://github.com/chriskempson/base16

Re: Solarized

#105

Post by kensuke155 »

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…

I use Base16 to apply Dracula across my terminal applications.

https://github.com/chriskempson/base16

Re: Solarized

#106

Post by djha-skin »

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.

Re: Solarized

#107

Post by wwkeyboard »

djha-skin wrote: post #106

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 windo…

I use the same, solarized light is surprisingly easy to read when sitting on a patio or at a coffee shop.

Re: Solarized

#108

Post by xwowsersx »

cgeier wrote: post #75

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 1: https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox thanks, hatsubishi, for pointing out the typo in the second link!

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.

Re: Solarized

#109

Post by iterati »

sitta wrote: post #87
markeibes wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is simply not true. I can recommend Kai Light, Espresso Light, XCode Classic Light, Horizon Light off the top of my head.

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.

Default gruvbox light's background is a bit too dark, but light+hard has been my goto for the last 6 years or so.

Re: Solarized

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Post by sciuromorpha_ »

djha-skin wrote: post #106

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 windo…

Slight tangent, but you're OFTEN coding from a bus stop?! Why?
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