solarized-terminal-fixed

Readable Solarized Light/Dark theme for use in Windows Terminal or VS Code

This is a version of the popular Solarized theme by Ethan Schoonover that fixes some problems of unreadable colors on terminal emulators.

Default	Fixed

Due to legacy, some colors of the ANSI escape code standard are considered hardcoded, such as colors 0 (Black) and 7 (White): this is a frequent problem with Bright Black, as it's assumed to be always rendered as a shade of gray. In the default Solarized theme it can be hard to read text in this color, as it's very similar to the background; this is quite apparent when reading man pages or compile errors from GCC using the Light variant.

• Example 0:

Light Default	Light Fixed

• Example 1:

Light Default	Light Fixed

• Example 2:

Dark Default	Dark Fixed

This fixes some of the issues by reversing the light color pallete and taking some clues from Visual Studio Code's built-in theme, such as, setting Bright Black to the same color as Bright Green, and the foreground color as Bright Blue.

The final result looks and feels like the original Solarized theme, but only more compatible with terminal aplications. I hope you'll like it!

How to Use

Windows Terminal color schemes

Copy the theme content from windowsterminal/ and paste the content to your profiles.json in the corresponding place ("schemes"). Then specify the name of your theme by "colorScheme" in "profiles".

Visual Studio Code color schemes

Copy the theme content from vscode/ and paste the content to your UserSettings.json.

Credits

Made by ANK-dev