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Solarized redesigned: fine-tuned color palette for programmers with focus on readability.

License: MIT License

Shell 18.12% Python 23.19% Scala 9.41% CSS 4.80% JavaScript 1.71% Emacs Lisp 35.66% Less 7.11%

selenized's Introduction

Selenized color palette

After researching perceptually uniform color spaces, 4 years of testing, refining hues and fine-tuning lightness using professional grade CIE Lab color space, the task of redesigning venerable Solarized is almost finished! Results:

Easy on the eyes.
Beautiful, vibrant and easily distinguishable accent colors.
Great readability and better compatibility with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Read more about the design and see how it improves on Solarized.

Installation

Ready-to-use config files are available for the following:

Terminal Emulators

Alacritty
Blink mobile shell for iOS
Gnome terminal (default terminal on Ubuntu, Mint and other Gnome-based distros)
Guake
iTerm
Kitty
Konsole (default KDE terminal)
Mintty
Terminal.app (default OS X terminal)
Terminator
Termite
Tilda
Tilix
urxvt
xterm

Editors & IDEs (help wanted!)

Vim
VS Code

🔥 I need your opinion! 🔥 There are some design decisions that need to be made before adding support for more editors. Your feedback would be very helpful - please comment on issue 68 and issue 74.

Other applications

Dircolors (file coloring rules for CLI utilities like ls)
i3 window manager and status line
Manpage coloring
Midnight Commander skin
Rofi window switcher
Slack sidebar theme
Wofi (wayland replacement for Rofi)

Manual installation

If your application is not listed above, it's easy to set the colors manually. See this document for guidelines.

Compatibility notes

Some command-line programs may need reconfiguration to look good with Selenized, because they make assumptions about the colors configured in terminal (see this issue for details):

However, this is quite rare; vast majority of software works great out-of-the-box.

Contributing and development

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

About the name

The name of the project is derived from the greek word "selene", which means the moon - as opposed to the sun in Solarized.

selenized's People

Contributors

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selenized's Issues

factor LAB coordinate calculation out of converter script

Add test with git graph branches in multiple colors

Add colorfiller template for Konsole

Add Fish Shell support.

Add support for Fish Shell - if it's possible that is.
https://fishshell.com

factor LAB

Notepad++: Second possible path to .xml file (%USERPROFILE%)

If AppData folder is used during the installation, the themes can be found at:
"%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\themes"
(this is my case :) )

emacs issues

Remove spaces from theme names
It looks like this:
Gtk:

Konsole:

How to test:

put *.el files somewhere in the ~/.emacs.d
running "emacs" will pick a default UI. run "emacs-gtk" or "emacs-nox" to be sure, which one you're using.
in emacs type "M-x load-theme <theme-name>" (M-x = Alt+x)
exit by typing "C-x C-c"

What are br_ colors?

The palettes have br_* colors.
What is their usecase?

add xterm configuration

Should be similar to urxvt.

Vim suggestions look bad

Error in Neovim: Cannot find color scheme 'Selenized'

Hello! I have this error in Neovim when use "colorscheme selenized" in my init.vim (.vimrc equivalent in Neovim).

Please change in selenized.vim file:
from
let g:colors_name = "Selenized"
to
let g:colors_name = "selenized"

It solves the problem. Thank you.

Set CursorLineNr backgroud to be the same as LineNr

Having a different background for the line cursor looks weird for me. changing:

hi CursorLineNr guifg=#3a4d53 guibg=NONE guisp=NONE gui=NONE cterm=NONE

hi CursorLineNr guifg=#3a4d53 guibg=#e9e4d0 guisp=NONE gui=NONE cterm=NONE

would resolve the problem.

Palette instead of profile in Gnome Terminal

I've just installed Selenized in Gnome Terminal, and it looks very nice indeed. My only gripe is that the installer creates a new profile, instead of just a palette. So in order to be able to switch between the four themes, I need four profiles, each of them identical except for the colors.

I also have Solarized installed (from some source, I don't remember where), and it only installed a palette. I think that would be the better choice for Selenized as well.

Error while installing on gnome

Hi, I am trying to install this scheme on Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 18.3 64-bit and I am getting the following error message:

dirname: invalid option -- 'b'
Try 'dirname --help' for more information.
-bash: cd: /colors: No such file or directory
-bash: /src/tools.sh: No such file or directory
-bash: /src/profiles.sh: No such file or directory

Warning!
This will permanently overwrite colors in selected profile - there is no undo.
Consider creating a new profile before installing Selenized.

Please select Selenized variant:

interactive_select_profile: command not found
You have selected:

  Scheme:  Selenized 
get_profile_name: command not found
  Profile:  ()

Are you sure you want to overwrite the selected profile?
(YES to continue) YES
Confirmation received -- applying settings
-bash: /colors/: No such file or directory
to_gconf: command not found
Error setting value: Bad key or directory name: "//palette": Can't have two slashes '/' in a row
No value to set for key: `//bold_color'
No value to set for key: `//background_color'
No value to set for key: `//foreground_color'
Error setting value: Bad key or directory name: "//use_theme_colors": Can't have two slashes '/' in a row
Error setting value: Bad key or directory name: "//bold_color_same_as_fg": Can't have two slashes '/' in a row

Please let me know if you can recreate this error message.

More granular styling for common languages?

(this is about vim theme, but similar coloring rules will be used in other editors as well)

As of 76b0a15 vim theme only specifies styling for basic token groups (like solarized). I think that rather than sticking to solarized, it would be beneficial to have more detailed styling rules (e.g. highlight booleans differently than other constants, differentiate imports from other PreProc etc.). Note: it may be a good idea to use vim-polyglot.

Requires #67 to be done first.

Languages that I'm likely to work on first:

python
shell
vimscript

Languages that I'd like to work on but need help from people who know them better:

Javascript
ruby
Java

Vim: style remaining default groups

#59 implemented minimal styling necessary to use selenized with Vim, but some highlight groups remained unstyled (they are listed at the end of the template file).

Remember to test the results in terminal&GUI, vim&neovim.

Emacs support

Please add support for Emacs.

Also, it would be nice to have a GTK theme along the lines of Numix Solarized, but this is of course not a high priority.

Use Jinja for templates

This should help shorten them (by using jinja's for construct).

Change titlebar colors in terminator config

The default colors are ugly - selenized configuration should use some selenized colors for them. Probably cyan for focused and blue for receiving.

Tilix support

It would be great to have support for Tilix terminal.

To use this theme in Tilix, you need to do something like:

dconf dump /com/gexperts/Tilix/ > tilix.conf
Edit tilix.conf and replace options:

foreground-color='#374a50'
palette=['#ebe6c9', '#d5252f', '#4a9300', '#b08b00', '#0074d6', '#cd4b9a', '#009f92', '#7d8782', '#cecaad','#cc1729', '#428b00', '#a78300', '#006dce', '#c44392', '#00978a', '#192c31']
background-color='#fefadc'

Load configuration again with:
dconf load /com/gexperts/Tilix/ < tilix.conf

I don't know currently how to make it better, it's just a quick and dirty configuration that works.

Tilda

Brilliant! But I use Tilda as my main terminal. Can you work your magic there?

Separate repo for Vim colorscheme?

Migrating from issue #47:

[Make selenized theme] available in a separate repository ie like altercation/vim-colors-solarized the reason for doing this is it can then easily be used by a plugin manager (vimplug etc).

some dircolors are wrong

directory with mod 777 is unreadable.

Add a license

Hi there, it seems like you're happy for everyone to use and re-use this code, could you add a licence to this repo to make it clear what the terms of re-use are?

Vim theme should avoid 256-color version

Selenized theme for vim is meant to be used with exact selenized color palette (this requires either truecolor-enabled terminal or configuring ANSI color palette of one's terminal). 256-color version is only an inferior approximation.

Unfortunately, when a terminal advertises itself as supporting 256 colors (e.g. when TERM=xterm-256color), Vim will try to use 256-color selenized. It is possible to work around this by setting t_Co=16, but

it's an ugly hack, theme files shouldn't do things like that
it doesn't work in neovim anyway

So, the goal is to find a way of making selenized use either true color capabilities of the terminal or ANSI color codes, avoiding 256-color version unless explicitly overridden with some option.

Selenized Black for Blinksh: Colors after bright red are green

It looks like something went wrong generating the Selenized Black colors:

t.prefs_.set('color-palette-overrides',[
"#252525", "#ed4a46", "#70b433", "#dbb32d",
 "#368aeb", "#eb6eb7", "#3fc5b7", "#777777", 
"#3b3b3b", "#ff5e56", "#83c746", "#83c746",
 "#83c746", "#83c746", "#83c746", "#83c746"]);

I checked -dark and it seemed unaffected. I'll check -white and -light and report back here.

ls coloring ideas

Though it's really a side-effect of unnatural terminal color bindings (i.e. light gray is put in light cyan color slot), I really like how the coloring in ls output looks like with solarized color palette: most filetypes are highlighted with different shades of gray instead of actual colors. This makes them look more restrained than default settings. I think it would be nice to use this consciously in selenized.

hidden files could be gray (i.e. lighter than foreground color)
directories could be bold and slightly darker than foreground
...

Let colorfiller create new palettes from sRGB

(i.e. no LAB coordinates necessary)

Add colorfiller template for README value listing

It would be the most natural way of creating that page.

design good color scheme for vimdiff

As @gszpura said, the default colors suck - and I do agree with him :) I should create a better color scheme based on Selenized palette.

Vim mapping colours to highlight groups

The current mapping from the colours to their highlight groups does not seem to be optimal. I would have expected Selenized to look very similar to Solarized (just with better contrast and slightly different shades of the colours), but the syntax colours are completely shuffled around.

(left: Solarized8, right: Selenized)

Also, something weird is going on with the status line.

Midnight Commander looks very bad

When using selenized with Midnight Commander (mc) contrast is very poor, making it almost unusable.

Support for Kitty terminal

Hi,

can you add support for Kitty terminal?

invisible cursor in vim

I am using dark urxvt theme and selenized color scheme in vim.

Following pictures were taken on vanilla themes except the background color of line number column.

Cursor on the right parentheses of main.

Cursor on the closing curly bracket of the main.

Same as before, but window is not focused.

For comparison, cursor on the focused window.

Unfocused window.

I noticed that character below is turning white, but it is really hard to notice.

Adjust monotones lightness to use proportions rather than fixed differences

Currently secondary content lightness is defined as foreground lightness - 15 units. Considering that different variants of Selenized have different contrast (between 50 and 60) it makes more sense to define the contrast of secondary content color as a fraction of main contrast.

Add support for Intellij IDEs

Use solarized config as a base.

fix colors that aren't from solarized palette
- variable definition and use instances
- strings in python
create a variant of selenized with monotones based on darkula scheme
adjust colors that don't work well

Add simple scripts for converting single color between spaces

Should selenized color syntax elements exactly like solarized?

Selenized builds on top of solarized by improving contrast and hues. What about token coloring choices? Should selenized mimic solarized as closely as possible, or could solarized choices be improved?

My opinion is that some choices in solarized are bad - in particular I dislike green keywords; to me they look ugly and also I think green is not strong enough for keywords:

I think that it's better to swap keywords with types:

However, some users (e.g. @fladd) prefer to keep original coloring. I can do that if the majority of users think the same. Please give 👍 if you want selenized to be like solarized, or 👎 if you prefer a modified version.

Do not reverse MatchParen

It is very easy to mix up the cursor and the MatchParen highlighting; especially when writing code with lots of brackets (e.g. a regex). Please make the MatchParen style bold, not reverse.

Solarized had a very similar issue, which they have fixed already. Such a fix would definitely improve Selenized.

Colorized MAN pages ie LESS_TERMCAP_so

I decided to adapt solarized-man.plugin.zsh however I am having trouble with LESS_TERMCAP_so getting that to look like the solarized theme.

I read this guide hoping it would help. Here's what I have so far:

function man() {
    env \
        LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf "\e[1;31m") \
        LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf "\e[1;31m") \
        LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf "\e[0m") \
        LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf "\e[0m") \
        LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf "\e[0;39;47m") \
        LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf "\e[0m") \
        LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf "\e[4;32m") \
        PAGER="${commands[less]:-$PAGER}" \
        _NROFF_U=1 \
        GROFF_NO_SGR=1 \
        PATH=${HOME}/bin:${PATH} \
    man "$@"
}

Termite is on the left with Solarized and urxvt is on the right with Selenized.

evaluate_template.py syntax errors

Seems to be a problem with the evaluate_template.py script, it's stopping me from testing #31

$ python evaluate_template.py selenized_dark.py putty.template
  File "/selenized/utils/evaluate_template.py", line 63
    print '' # section separator
          ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. 
Did you mean print('' # section separator)?

Keep default terminator palette in config for comparison?

MobaXterm

Has anyone got selenized working in MobaXterm? Ideally I’d like to create a new custom display setting and not manually overwrite one of the existing ones.

There is a mobaxterm.ini that allows you to change colors but this doesn’t seem to be documented.

E.g. : https://gist.github.com/Kohei-Toyoda/96b46050d60221c13f93be2654a13fac

Strange difference in LAB -> AppleRGB conversion between colormath and Photoshop

@gtaylor this might interest you.

When I switched from Photoshop to python.colormath as the tool for doing color space conversions (see commit 5189cb9), I noticed one strange discrepancy in conversion results: Photoshop converts Lab(63, 66, 44) to #f63e3d (in AppleRGB) while python.colormath yields #ff3e3d.

What's most surprising, when I converted Lab(55, 66, 44) - i.e. the same hue, just 8 units dimmer - to AppleRGB using both tools, the results were almost the same: #e0272e in Photoshop vs #e1272e in python.colormath. The coordinates of all other colors I converted were also almost the same (I've only observed some differences of 1 unit which can be attributed to rounding errors).

Who is doing the conversion right, and who is wrong?

Vim colorscheme, separate repo, togglebg, 24bit RGB

I am thinking this could do with some work:

Available in a separate repository ie like altercation/vim-colors-solarized the reason for doing this is it can then easily be used by a plugin manager (vimplug etc).
I would consider modifying the togglebg script to work for all four schemes, light, dark, white, black.
I'd consider a 24bit RGB true color only variant for neovim-qt ie like JulioJu/neovim-qt-colors-solarized-truecolor-only

Aptitiude looks bad

Gray on gray

Support for mate terminal

It is configured similarly to gnome-terminal, but config paths are different.

dconf path /org/mate/terminal/profiles
adding profile to list /org/mate/terminal/global/profile-list