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I loved solarized when it was new (to me). But after several years, I couldn't stand looking at those blue tones all day.

I switched (in vim) to gruvbox [0] (better maintained "community" edition [1]), which also has a dark and a light version, which is a lot warmer.

0: https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox 1: https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox

thanks, hatsubishi, for pointing out the typo in the second link!

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It's https://github.com/gruvbox-community/gruvbox

This is the same reason I went to gruvbox from solarized. The warmer colors keep their contrast even with Flux[0] late into the night.

0: https://justgetflux.com/

Same. I regularly switch between light and dark mode. For me, dark feels more comfortable in the short-term, but I find that I can't use dark for an entire day. Anyways, I previously used solarized. It's very pleasant for a certain period of time, but like many color themes that I like, it doesn't actually "scale" in the sense that I can't use it for extended periods of time. Gruvbox, on the other hand, I can use for very long stretches.

I heard that astigmatism is the reason some people find reading white-on-black intolerable: the edges shift from their proper places, look doubled, this kind of stuff. Idk if astigmatism-correcting glasses fix the problem, as I'm not that diligent with my prescriptions.

Personally, somehow I'm ok with looking at code and some notes in light-gray-on-black, but reading paragraphs of text is immediately off-putting. The proliferation of ‘dark theme’ sites is not working out for me.

Wow so interesting! I have a very high astigmatism so this makes a lot of sense! I wonder if it would help to wear glasses that correct. I wear my contacts and they really aren't capable of correct astigmatism the way glasses are.

A comment elsewhere in the thread explains the mechanism of why light background results in better eye focus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403128

Probably relevant with astigmatism, since tighter focus should at least somewhat alleviate the shifty out-of-place edges (hopefully).

Just seeing your comment. Thanks for the link, that was a great comment and helped me to understand something I experience but did not understand the cause of!

For those interested in gruvbox, give gruvbox-material ( https://github.com/sainnhe/gruvbox-material ) a look. It's a bit softer than the original, which I find a bit easier on the eyes.

Cool fact if you’re on macOS: Gruvbox fits perfectly iPulse’s Starfighter skin colors.

After ditching VS Code in favor of Alacritty/Tmux/NeoVim I tried a few themes, really liked Nord but ended up sticking with the cozy Gruvbox.

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