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):

• ls
• Midnight Commander

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.