I am no longer a Spyder user, so this is effectively abandoned.
Leaving it here for Spyder 2.x and Spyder 3.0 users.
For Spyder 3.1 there is a pull request spyder-ide/spyder#3534 that proposes it to master and probably will be backported to 3.1 - please help the author to merge it and enjoy Solarized in Spyder out-of-the-ox :)
This is an attempt to include support of the Solarized color scheme into Spyder Python IDE.
This project repository is found on GitHub at https://github.com/pshchelo/spyder-color-solarized.
This project is released under MIT license (see LICENSE.txt), as both Solarized and Spyder themselves.
About Solarized color scheme, citing its author Ethan Schoonover (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized):
Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions.
The main repository of Solarized Color Scheme is found on GitHub at https://github.com/altercation/solarized.
About Spyder (https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder):
Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a powerful interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features.
I have not yet found a way to include Solarized support as a Spyder plugin, so the solution I use is to tinker with configuration files.
- Close all instances of Spyder if it is running.
- Find a Spyder config file at
~/.spyder2/.spyder.inion *nix/BSD/MacOSX orc:\Users\[yourusername]\.spyder2\.spyder.inion Windows Vista/7. You may have to turn the display of hidden files on to find this folder and this file. Open this file with the text editor of your choice. - Find a section named
[color_schemes]inside this file. - Replace the next line (starting with
names =...) with the content of thespyder.inifile in this repo (note that I intentionally omitted the leading dot in the included file name so that it is not hidden). - Save and close
.spyder.ini, start Spyder and choose SolarizedLight or SolarizedDark as your editor color scheme inPreferences -> Editor -> Display -> Syntax color scheme.
| Spyder element | Solarized color name | Hex color code | Style | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light | Dark | Light | Dark | ||
| Background | base3 | base03 | #fdf6e3 | #002b36 | |
| Current line | base2 | base02 | #eee8d5 | #073642 | |
| Occurrence | base0 | base00 | #839496 | #657b83 | |
| Link | magenta | #d33682 | |||
| Side areas | base2 | base02 | #eee8d5 | #073642 | |
| Matched brackets | base01 | base1 | #586e75 | #93a1a1 | |
| Unmatched brackets | red | #dc322f | |||
| Normal text | base00 | base0 | #657b83 | #839496 | |
| Keyword | green | #859900 | |||
| Built-in | violet | #6c71c4 | |||
| Definition | blue | #268bd2 | bold | ||
| Comment | base1 | base01 | #93a1a1 | #586e75 | italic |
| String | cyan | #2aa198 | |||
| Number | orange | #cb4b16 | |||
| Instance | yellow | #b58900 | italic | ||