Precision Colors for Your Code

If you spend a lot of time writing code or using the command terminal, then you may have already found yourself needing to adjust the default colorization of code. How do you find the perfect balance of colors? Moreover, what if you’d like your whole team of developers to use a consistent, optimal color scheme? You need colors that are easily legible, while still providing enough contrast, both with the background and each other, so that the different parts of your mark-up are easily distinguishable.

Enter Solarized. Solarized is a free custom palette of sixteen colors (including four background tones, four “content tones” and eight accent tones). The content and accent tones are visible on both the light and dark backgrounds and are based on established color theory principles. They’ve been tested on calibrated, uncalibrated and miscalibrated monitors and under various lighting conditions to be highly visible in different contexts. The schemes are currently available for Vim, Mutt, Xresources, iTerm2, OS X Terminal, Adobe Photoshop Palette, Apple Color Picket Palette and GIMP palette. (cc)