Polarized is a color palette (17 colors) for IDEs, editors & code highlighters.
The palette is based on Solarized but introduce modifications on the "monotones" colors and a strict guideline on what's the purpose of the colors.
Polarized exists in two variants Light and Dark.
As you can see the Light and Dark variants of Polarized share 9 colors and have 8 specific colors. These specific colors were obtained by blending two colors as you can see here:
The last color of each row (image below) aren't used in the final palette, these colors were simply used in the blending process to generate the other colors.
| Short Name | Color Name | Light | Dark | Apply on | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
bgr |
background |  |
 |
background | Code Block Background, Editor Background |
hgl |
highlighted |  |
 |
background | Highlighted Line(s), Search Results Highlighed (not user selection) |
sel |
selection |  |
 |
background | User Selection of word(s) or line(s) |
com |
comments |  |
 |
text | Code Comments (comments are normally displayed in italic) |
lin |
line n° |  |
 |
text | Line Numbers |
def |
default |  |
 |
text | Default color for text, delimiters & ponctuations ({,},;,,,...) |
acc |
Accent |  |
 |
text | Use when default text are selected to keep text readibility |
kwd |
keywords |  |
 |
text | Keywords, Keyword Declaration (e.g. var in JavaScript), Keyword Type (int, float, ...), Keyword Namespace (namespace) |
esc |
escaped |  |
|
text | Escaped Characters, Regex, Interpoled Strings, Character Entities |
res |
reserved |  |
|
text | Reserved Keywords, Constant Keywords, Pseudo Keywords |
opr |
operators |  |
|
text | Operators, Word Operators |
str |
strings |  |
|
text | Strings, DocStrings |
var |
variables |  |
|
text | Variable Names, Attributes Names |
nam |
names |  |
|
text | Namespace Names, Class Names, Decorator Names, Exception Names, Function Names |
nbr |
numbers |  |
|
text | All kind of Numbers (integer, float, hex, binary, ...) |
err |
errors |  |
|
text OR wavy underline | Errors (the color can be applied to text or only to a wavy underline), Diff Deleted (apply on text) |
ins |
inserted |  |
|
text | Diff Inserted, Success Messages |
As you can see every colors are meant to be used for a specific purpose. Of course if in your case you can't use all the colors do your best to stay as close as possible to the original palette.
Find in this page a table with the exact colors codes in multiple color models (HEX, RGB, HSV, HSL, Lab).
There is also files in the palette/ folder defining the colors in HEX in multiple formats: YAML, CSS, SCSS.
Important: if you implement the color palette in an editor, a website, a service, ... please do not modify the color codes (use the exact ones listed in this page).
If you implement this palette as a color theme somewhere, code comments should be displayed in italics, and keywords should be in bold (to easily identify them).
Polarized is a seventeen (17) color palette but if you need (or are restricted) to only sixteen colors, you can ignore the accent (acc) color or use the operators (opr) color for the Diff Inserted texts.
The current version is 1.0.0, you can download the latest release on the Releases category (on the sidebar) or from this page.
- Sorbus Auto-Theme for Rouge Highlighter, in this project Polarized is one of the default color palettes available.
- Solarized Github Project & Website, the original palette Polarized is based on.
- Rowan Color Palette, another cool color palette.
- Color Blend, website to blend two colors and generate intermediates colors.
- Colorizer.org, super tool to convert and play with colors into multiples color models (HSV, HSL, Lab, ...).
Polarized has been created and is currently maintained by Ben Souchet.
All the files present in this repository are under MIT license.