Stolen from Ethan Schoonover [email protected] by Greg Pfeil [email protected]
Visit the Solarized homepage
See the Solarized homepage for screenshots, details and colorscheme versions for Vim, Mutt, popular terminal emulators and other applications.
If you have come across this colorscheme via the Emacs-only repository on github, see the link above to the Solarized homepage or visit the main Solarized repository.
The Emacs-only repository is kept in sync with the main Solarized repository. Issues, bug reports, changelogs that are not specific to the Emacs implementation should be submitted to the main Solarized repository.
- Add the
emacs-color-theme-solarizeddirectory to your Emacsload-path. M-x enable-theme, then eithersolarized-lightorsolarized-dark.
color-theme (pre-Emacs 24)
- Download and install color-theme.
- Add the
emacs-color-theme-solarizeddirectory to your Emacsload-path. - Add
(require 'color-theme-solarized)to your Emacs init file (usually~/.emacs). - Use the usual color-theme mechanism to select one of the Solarized themes, or
M-x color-theme-solarized-[light|dark].
If you are going to use Solarized in Terminal mode (i.e. not in a GUI version like Cocoa or X11 Emacs), please please please consider setting your terminal emulator's colorscheme to use the Solarized palette. The Solarized repository includes palettes for some popular terminal emulator as well as Xdefaults; or you can download them from the official Solarized homepage. If you use this emacs color theme without having changed your emulator's palette, you will need to configure Solarized to degrade its colorscheme to a set compatible with the terminal's default limited 256 color palette (whereas by using the terminal's 16 ANSI color values, you would see the correct, specific values for the Solarized palette).
If you do use the custom terminal colors, i.e. the 16 overridden ANSI color
values, the emacs colorscheme should work out of the box for you. If you are
using a terminal emulator that supports 256 colors and don't want to use
the custom Solarized terminal colors, you will need to use the degraded 256
colorscheme. To do so, simply customize the solarized-termcolor variable to
256.
Again, I recommend just changing your terminal colors to Solarized values either manually or via one of the many terminal schemes available for import.
Solarized will work out of the box with just the instructions specified above but does include several variables that can be customized.
variable name default optional
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solarized-termcolors= 16 | 256
solarized-degrade = nil | t
solarized-bold = t | nil
solarized-underline = t | nil
solarized-italic = t | nil
solarized-contrast = normal| high, low
solarized-visibility= normal| high, low
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solarized-termcolors
This is set to 16 by default, meaning that Solarized will attempt to use the standard 16 colors of your terminal emulator, assuming that you've set these colors to the correct Solarized values either manually or by importing one of the many colorscheme available for popular terminal emulators and Xdefaults. If you don't want to use the Solarized colors via the terminal emulator's palette, you can set this to 256, which will use a degraded version of the Solarized palette by displaying the closest colors in the terminal's default 256 colors as shown in Xterm's color chart.
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solarized-degrade
For test purposes only; in GUI mode, this forces Solarized to use the 256 degraded color mode to test the approximate color values for accuracy.
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solarized-bold | solarized-underline | solarized-italic
If you wish to stop Solarized from displaying bold, underlined or italicized typefaces, simply set the appropriate variable to
nil. -
solarized-contrast
Stick with normal! It's been carefully tested. Setting this option to high or low does use the same Solarized palette but simply shifts some values up or down in order to expand or compress the tonal range displayed.
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solarized-visibility
Special characters such as trailing whitespace, tabs, newlines, when displayed using
:set listcan be set to one of three levels depending on your needs. Default value isnormalwithhighandlowoptions.
I have attempted to modularize the creation of Emacs colorschemes in this script and, while it could be refactored further, it should be a good foundation for the creation of any color scheme. By simply changing the values in the solarized-colors table in solarized-definitions.el and testing in a GUI Emacs, you can rapidly prototype new colorschemes without diving into the weeds of line-item editing each syntax highlight declaration.
L*a*b values are canonical (White D65, Reference D50), other values are matched in sRGB space.
SOLARIZED HEX 16/8 TERMCOL XTERM/HEX L*A*B RGB HSB
--------- ------- ---- ------- ----------- ---------- ----------- -----------
base03 #002b36 8/4 brblack 234 #1c1c1c 15 -12 -12 0 43 54 193 100 21
base02 #073642 0/4 black 235 #262626 20 -12 -12 7 54 66 192 90 26
base01 #586e75 10/7 brgreen 240 #585858 45 -07 -07 88 110 117 194 25 46
base00 #657b83 11/7 bryellow 241 #626262 50 -07 -07 101 123 131 195 23 51
base0 #839496 12/6 brblue 244 #808080 60 -06 -03 131 148 150 186 13 59
base1 #93a1a1 14/4 brcyan 245 #8a8a8a 65 -05 -02 147 161 161 180 9 63
base2 #eee8d5 7/7 white 254 #e4e4e4 92 -00 10 238 232 213 44 11 93
base3 #fdf6e3 15/7 brwhite 230 #ffffd7 97 00 10 253 246 227 44 10 99
yellow #b58900 3/3 yellow 136 #af8700 60 10 65 181 137 0 45 100 71
orange #cb4b16 9/3 brred 166 #d75f00 50 50 55 203 75 22 18 89 80
red #dc322f 1/1 red 160 #d70000 50 65 45 220 50 47 1 79 86
magenta #d33682 5/5 magenta 125 #af005f 50 65 -05 211 54 130 331 74 83
violet #6c71c4 13/5 brmagenta 61 #5f5faf 50 15 -45 108 113 196 237 45 77
blue #268bd2 4/4 blue 33 #0087ff 55 -10 -45 38 139 210 205 82 82
cyan #2aa198 6/6 cyan 37 #00afaf 60 -35 -05 42 161 152 175 74 63
green #859900 2/2 green 64 #5f8700 60 -20 65 133 153 0 68 100 60