emacs solarized colors look like hot garbage in terminal

[kitchen-squarespace]

I did some experimentation with this, setting TERM, using different variants of solarized theme, and I think I got close, but ultimately I think the theme(s) I'm using aren't set up expecting that I have my terminal's colors set according to solarized.

When I got really close the one time, it seemed like the base0* colors were backward. Like the background color should have been the dark, and the "you're on this line" color should have been light, but they were swapped. I didn't dig much deeper than that, though.

I think first step would be to validate that my terminal's solarized colors are set correctly across my 3 terminals that I use (iterm2 on macos, gnome-terminal on ubuntu, and blink on ios), and then dig into how the colors are set up in the theme(s).

I am fairly certain all of my terminals support truecolor, but the situation regarding truecolor seems like a major charlie foxtrot and I'm not sure quite how to go about utilizing it. Plus something something mosh doesn't support it? I dunno.

Ultimately, I think that's the right way to go long term, because I'm not worried about compatibility with actual terminals, only the ones I use on the daily, but there's probably some pain along the way.

[kitchen-squarespace]

Ok, I fixed this by abandoning solarized entirely in my life. Huge change, right!

But it wasn't just because emacs (though, tbh, it was a lot because emacs) but also because I've run into issues with solarized colors as my 16 color palette at other times, and I feel like it'll be easier in the long run just to do this myself.

If I want solarized-on-terminal in the future, maybe I'll try to figure out how to make things use truecolor mode that all of the terminals I support use. But meanwhile, I'll just go with dark and call it good.