#solarized

Alex M. Dunne (he/him)alexmdunne
2026-01-09

@ethanschoonover

! is a ships-with-theme for the new distributed app

github.com/lklynet/hypermind

Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:evgandr@bsd.cafe
2025-08-15

@bazkie @JdeBP @rl_dane Aha, looks like it is the problem! I misinterpreted the table for #Solarized colors and there no some of light colors — just shades of grey :drgn_hide: Thanks for pointing to me about this! :drgn_blep:

I rewrite definitions in the loader.conf and even the bright colors are displaying properly now in #FreeBSD text terminals

Output of "vidcontrol show" with 8 basic colors (black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, white) and their bright versions.

Colors like the colors from Solarized Light color scheme.Color definition for text consoles in /boot/loader.conf:

######################
# Text console colors:
######################
# 0 - black    8  - grey
# 1 - blue     9  - lightblue
# 2 - green    10 - lightgreen
# 3 - cyan     11 - lightcyan
# 4 - red      12 - lightred
# 5 - magenta  13 - lightmagenta
# 6 - brown    14 - yellow
# 7 - white    15 - lightwhite
#
# Used colortheme: Solarized light
kern.vt.color.0.rgb="#fdf6e3"  # base3
kern.vt.color.1.rgb="#dc322f"  # blue (red IRL)
kern.vt.color.2.rgb="#859900"  # green
kern.vt.color.3.rgb="#b58900"  # cyan (yellow IRL)
kern.vt.color.4.rgb="#268bd2"  # red (blue IRL)
kern.vt.color.5.rgb="#d33682"  # magenta
kern.vt.color.6.rgb="#2aa198"  # yellow (cyan IRL)
kern.vt.color.7.rgb="#657b83"  # base00
kern.vt.color.8.rgb="#fefcf5"  # lightgrey (lightwhite IRL)
kern.vt.color.9.rgb="#f81713"  # lightblue (lightred IRL)
kern.vt.color.10.rgb="#a7c000" # lightgreen
kern.vt.color.11.rgb="#dca700" # lightcyan (lightyellow IRL)
kern.vt.color.12.rgb="#138ee5" # lightred (lightblue IRL)
kern.vt.color.13.rgb="#e62381" # lightmagenta
kern.vt.color.14.rgb="#1ab1a5" # lightyellow (lightcyan IRL)
kern.vt.color.15.rgb="#002b36" # base03
Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:evgandr@bsd.cafe
2025-08-15

Inspired by the @rl_dane post (polymaths.social/@rl_dane/stat) about "Cool computers always have/had a light background. This is where I live now. I ain't movin'" — I remember about some words, I've read in the man 4 vt.

I've already changed default console font via vidcontrol, so why not to try change a colors for the text terminals too? :drgn_think_science:

There are some sysctl variables, which can be changed via /boot/loader.conf — 16 variables for 8 base colors and for the 8 bright versions of the same colors. And :drgn_lurk_notice: the same 16 colors are listed in the description of my beloved Solarized color theme!

So, I just entered the necessary hex values to the /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. Result was far from ideal — somehow, the red/blue and cyan/brown colors are swapped (see the pic 1), despite all color codes are matched with corresponding hex color codes :drgn_confused: .

Ok, I entered blue hex color code to the variable with red code and vice versa. And the text descriptions of colors from "vidcontrol show" got the right colors. Despite, some bright colors displayed as shades of grey (see pic. 2).

Don't know why, maybe it is bug in the Intel's i915kms or in the vt driver :drgn_think_confused: …

The last change I've made — swapped the white and black color definitions to get something like Solarized Light. The result is on the pic. 3 :drgn_sparkle:

#FreeBSD #Solarized #SolarizedLight #terminal

List of colors in terminal, issued by vidcontrol show. There are 8 base colors (black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown and white) and their bright versions (also 8 colors).

It is visible that pairs of red/blue and cyan/yellow are swapped between each other.List of colors in terminal, issued by vidcontrol show. There are 8 base colors (black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown and white) and their bright versions (also 8 colors).

It is visible from output that some bright versions of colors are not displayed correctly. The bright- blue, green, cyan, magenta and yellow are displayed as shades of grey.List of colors in terminal, issued by vidcontrol show. There are 8 base colors (black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown and white) and their bright versions (also 8 colors).

The black and white colors are swapped so the colors in terminal looks like Solarized Light color theme.Configuration in /boot/loader.conf to get a something like SolarizedLight in the text terminals:

######################
# Text console colors:
######################
# 0 - black    8  - grey
# 1 - blue     9  - lightblue
# 2 - green    10 - lightgreen
# 3 - cyan     11 - lightcyan
# 4 - red      12 - lightred
# 5 - magenta  13 - lightmagenta
# 6 - brown    14 - yellow
# 7 - white    15 - lightwhite
#
# Used colortheme: Solarized light
kern.vt.color.0.rgb="#eee8d5"  # black (white IRL)
kern.vt.color.1.rgb="#dc322f"  # blue
kern.vt.color.2.rgb="#859900"  # green
kern.vt.color.3.rgb="#b58900"  # cyan
kern.vt.color.4.rgb="#268bd2"  # red
kern.vt.color.5.rgb="#d33682"  # magenta
kern.vt.color.6.rgb="#2aa198"  # brown
kern.vt.color.7.rgb="#073642"  # white (black IRL)
kern.vt.color.8.rgb="#fdf6e3"  # grey (lightwhite IRL)
kern.vt.color.9.rgb="#cb4b16"  # lightblue
kern.vt.color.10.rgb="#586e75" # lightgreen
kern.vt.color.11.rgb="#657b83" # lightcyan
kern.vt.color.12.rgb="#839496" # lightred
kern.vt.color.13.rgb="#6c71c4" # lightmagenta
kern.vt.color.14.rgb="#93a1a1" # yellow
kern.vt.color.15.rgb="#002b36" # lightwhite (grey IRL)
2025-06-17
unixbhaskarunixbhaskar
2025-06-17
2025-05-12

Happiness is a development environment with good colors and typography. #cozydev #solarized #vim4lyfe #generationzloremipsum

2025-04-15
Solarized

Double exposure with Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f2.8 in a Pentacon Vebur leaf shutter adapted to EOS M
Dam Square, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2020

#solarized #damsquare #damsquareamsterdam #amsterdam #amsterdamstreets #sunnyday #doubleexposure #experimentalphotography #abstractphoto #abstractstreet #abstractphotography #abstractart #zeissjenalens #tessar50mmf28 #leafshutter #vebur #vintagelens
joana 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈joana_r666@is.nota.live
2025-04-08

this month i realized i love the #solarized theme, i used to hate it years ago.

it might not be the prettiest but damn it works so good on #HelixEditor , it has good contrast and since I've been using it i haven't found much use for light themes (except for 1-2 hours when i go to the office, the sun is hella bright in there)

#programming #code

PUNK irratiapunkirratia
2025-02-15

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solarized

Entzun / Listen (streaming):
punkirratia.net:8443/punk

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2024-11-23

@mwshook I've always been partial to #zenburn or #solarized, but #draculatheme can get the juices flowing.

The real Analysis Paralysis for me comes when I try to choose a new terminal/editor font. Lay awake at night sometimes thinking about Comic Mono -- dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-fo

R. Natale Fine Artrnatale@mstdn.social
2024-10-22

A favorite photo of mine taken in a snowstorm and couldn't see a thing. So I just let all the rules go and shot it the way it was. Solarized during processing.

renata-natale.pixels.com/featu

#snowfall #solarized #snowstorm #weather #MastoArt #Photography #silence #Minimal #buyintoart

Color photo taken during a snowstorm at Twin Lakes in the Pocono Mountains
2024-10-13

I postponed the #manjaro updates for MONTHS because it would break my nvim colorscheme and I didn't want to deal with that problem 😆 (no time, no interest)

Now signal-desktop was making a fuzz about being outdated and unusable so I HAD to finally deal with this.

Turns out colorscheme in nvim had breaking changes in version 0.10.0. I got it sorted in a way that I can use #solarized but it is nowhere near as pretty as it was before, in version 0.9 🥲 I'll deal with improvements another time (probably when I'm at work and more annoyed by it 😆)

#arch #nvim #neovim

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