README.md

Selenized color palette

Selenized is a color theme for terminals and text editors, carefully designed using professional-grade CIE Lab* color space for maximum readability and great eye comfort.

Design principles

• make the contrast just right: strong but not tiring to the eyes
• adjust lightness of all colors for uniform readability
• select colors in a way that boosts code comprehension
• make it as beautiful and visually pleasing as possible

Read more about the design here.

Installation

Ready-to-use config files are available for the following terminals:

• GNOME terminal (default terminal on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Linux distros using Gnome)
• Konsole (KDE's terminal)
• Terminator
• Guake
• urxvt
• xterm
• iTerm
• if you use Terminal.app (default OS X terminal), I recommend switching to iTerm, for reasons listed here.
• Tilix
• Alacritty
• mintty

If your terminal is not listed here, you can always manually copy hex values into its preferences. Please consider sending me a pull request with the resulting configuration so that I can add it to officially supported terminals :-)

Palette variants

Selenized dark

Like Solarized dark, but better.

Selenized black

Oldschool black-and-white look with a little more contrast.

Selenized light

A warm sepia variant, corresponding to Solarized light.

Selenized white

Unlike many dark-on-white palettes, yellow color is readable here.

What about Solarized?

There is a popular color palette named Solarized. I really liked the design principles behind Solarized, but it has a couple issues, which Selenized solves.

By the way, the name is derived from the greek word "selene", which means the moon (as opposed to the sun in Solarized).

Known issues

Some command-line programs need reconfiguration to look good with Selenized, because they make assumptions about the colors configured in terminal (see this issue for details):

• ls
• Midnight Commander

Contributing and development

See CONTRIBUTING.md.