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Re: Solarized

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Post by reify_null »

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!

For those interested in gruvbox, give gruvbox-material ( https://github.com/sainnhe/gruvbox-material ) a look. It's a bit softer than the original, which I find a bit easier on the eyes.

Re: Solarized

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Post by otikik »

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…

EDIT: other answers point to base16 as a way to do this automatically. Use that. Leaving my previous comment here just in case.

I think what the creator is doing is outsourcing the maintenance of each individual app to a maintainer that cares; the themes folder contains pointers to other repos:

https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme/tree/master/themes

I think that is a good idea.

This could be used to "reverse-engineer a generic platform" relatively easily:

    1: Fork Dracula and its themes
    3: For each color in Dracula.Palette
    4:   Find and replace color.hex by color.refjex on themes
    5:   Find and replace "color.r,color.g,color.b" by color.refrgb on themes
    6:   Find and replace "color.h,color.s,color.l" by color.refhsl on themes
The whole idea would be replacing #282a36 for a reference like `{{Background}}` and then using a templating language like handlebars or m4 to generate the themes.

Of course steps 4,5 and 6 are more complex than 3 lines. One will have to come up with a way to filter out spaces, commas and other things. I expect a lot of the apps out there to expect hex numbers though.

Re: Solarized

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Post by yojo »

mosburger wrote: post #125
cstross wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly the downvotes are because folks (like me) who started coding in light text on dark backgrounds in the 80s had emphatically not hit retirement age by 2010? They'd be between their late thirties and maybe late fifties, unless you want to push it all the way back to the 1970s or earlier -- the build-out of computing infrastructure over the past century has been exponential, so there is always a preponderance of…

As a 48 year old who's feeling quite burnt out, I'm curious to learn more about this sideways move... I'm feeling a bit trapped right now. :( EDIT: Ah, checked your profile and history and it seems like you've become a writer? Hmm... maybe I could do that... (BTW, the SSL cert for your website has expired!) EDIT2: Thanks for the advice on writing, all! Honestly, I was thinking of taking the technical writer route. I'…

If you want to become a writer, you should definitely have a financial cushion. Replicating Stross’s success will almost certainly take years of minimally paid hard work, plus a fair bit of luck. Writing is a hard, hard business.

Unless you can write proficiently in the romance genre. There’s gold in them hills.

Re: Solarized

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Post by Adaptive »

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 :)

Re: Solarized

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Post by tasuki »

Adaptive wrote: post #135

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…

> 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

Re: Solarized

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Post by fencepost »

yojo wrote: post #134
mosburger wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a 48 year old who's feeling quite burnt out, I'm curious to learn more about this sideways move... I'm feeling a bit trapped right now. :( EDIT: Ah, checked your profile and history and it seems like you've become a writer? Hmm... maybe I could do that... (BTW, the SSL cert for your website has expired!) EDIT2: Thanks for the advice on writing, all! Honestly, I was thinking of taking the technical writer route. I'…

If you want to become a writer, you should definitely have a financial cushion. Replicating Stross’s success will almost certainly take years of minimally paid hard work, plus a fair bit of luck. Writing is a hard, hard business. Unless you can write proficiently in the romance genre. There’s gold in them hills.

Re: writing, there are also people making decent money with web serials and Patreon (then publishing to Kindle/Kindle Unlimited). I suspect the most successful ones are exceeding Stephen King levels of output.

You'll find some of them on Royal Road. Lots of fantasy, litrpg, xianxia - fluffy serializable things.

Re: Solarized

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Post by teucris »

Adaptive wrote: post #135

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…

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.
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