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Putty definitely requires you to edit its default settings, but I was in general really surprised at the level of control you have (on a Windows application).

Side note: Am I in the minority for disliking how Solarized looks? It's so damn popular but I really can't seem to find its appeal.

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Voice for Solarized: I use it everywhere, because it’s popular, consistent, and not horrible to look at. This means I can have essentially the same color scheme everywhere, which is nice, plus the light/dark themes are very easy to make (which, conveniently, reduces the amount of syntax highlighting CSS on my website quite a bit: the only thing I need to have “dark mode” is changing the background color). I’m not completely sold on the “algorithmically perfected, better for your eyes, etc.” stuff but I do think it’s not horrible, which is not a guarantee I can make about $DEFAULT_COLOR_SCHEME_FOR_RANDOM_EDITOR.

I think it’s great too, but a lot of the community implementations somehow mess up the color codes in practice.

I'm not a fan of Solarized either, but really like Gruvbox. It is somewhat similar to Solarized, but with plenty of contrast and a not-blue dark background.

https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

But looking back at Solarized, I can't see why I used to dislike it so much (low contrast) - perhaps it's because I now have a HiDPI screen which can more precisely render the text apart from the background?

Thanks, here is the file or iTerm for instance: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/morhetz/gruvbox-contrib/ma...

Tried it but much too pale for me, I use iTerm's default dark colors + a fix for a lighter dark blue: https://gist.github.com/localhostdotdev/42c2b7b1c5d737e260ca...

Nope, I personally thing Solarized looks horrible. I prefer more neutral colours. Things I do like: Monokai Pro, VS Code Dark+ theme.

I used to use Solarized everywhere, and it's still my fallback. I like its consistent colours, and I use the darker colours as my wallpaper on my desktop/laptop.

I've switched to using One Dark in my editors though, it feels slightly easier on my (aging!) eyes.

A lot of people use Solarized, I think, because they are not happy with the defaults, and Solarized is very well put together. So when people see the new colours available to them, they think "this is great! I should use this everywhere!" and thus it gets potentially way overused.

I don’t have a problem with Solarized but I prefer a simple green on black scheme.

I wanted to like it, and it is pleasing to the eye but the low contrast drove me nuts

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