• provides a standard 16(! not 8!) set of ANSI colors that actually correspond to the standard colors (i.e. green looks green, blue looks blue etc.)
• has good contrast between most of these colors, so that if a CLI tool decides to use gray-on-blue status bars, it’s still readable (this is actually the most important feature)
• uses neutral or warm colors (no blue-ish tint)
• optionally: has a 256-color variant for #Vim or #Neovim
@scy ich glaube https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 sollte allgemein 1, 2 und 4 erfüllen, 3 müsstest du durchschauen. Es gibt auch eigene Projekte für vim/nvim und andere Sachen. IIRC war da auch etwas Gemeckere wegen Projekt geht nicht weiter und Fork und so, weiß aber nicht mehr wie das weitergegangen war 😕
As solarized is completely computational theme, it should be possible to calculate it for some other gradient instead .. maybe @ethanschoonover has an idea/opinion on that?
@jwalzer@scy@realestninja There have been attempts to do this and some have been moderately successful. However I think one of the reasons that Solarized has been successful is that while it is foundationally mathematical it is also highly "aesthetically opinionated". I made as many choices based on my eye as a designer as I did based on my math nerd brain.
@michenriksen Yes, but it cost me time to look into it, and I wouldn’t have needed to do that because it obviously doesn’t fit my requirements. Sorry to be so blunt about this, but you were essentially sending me a useless reply that cost me time to filter out, so you were not only not helping me, but actively slowing me down. :(
@scy I had to tweak everforest for use in my terminal (they don't have a reasonable concept of non-bright colors in dark mode), so it might or might not be useful for you.
There’s solarized, but I’m sure you’ve seen that already…
@positivedinosaur Well Solarized Dark certainly does. Sorry, that might've been my mistake, I've assumed basically everyone is using dark terminals nowadays.
@scy I do. During northern-hemishpere winter, when there is no chance of random screen glare and the environment is generally very dark (at least where I live).
During what registers around here as summer, I use a light theme.
All that being said: I had not perceived solarized dark as "too blueish".
Maybe gruvbox is something for you?
I’m curious to learn what you find useful in the end!
@scyhttps://draculatheme.com seems fairly decent (pastel colors are the only way to stay true to the original colors), but I still have contrast issues, for example when vim syntax highlighting collides with vimdiff highlighting.
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