Project: solarized-simple
Overview
solarized-simple is a “reduced-color” text editor theme based on the popular Solarized color scheme.
solarized-simple was originally a pair of TextMate themes (dark and light), but making adjustments to both, keeping theme files updated across workstations, and switching between editors and IDEs proved to complicate this greatly.
Now, solarized-simple is a theme generator. It currently is only capable of generating a TextMate theme compatible with TextMate, Sublime Text 3, and maybe other editors.
Rationale
Solarized is great. It’s easy on the eyes, provides guidelines for coloring any and all tokens, and can easily be used at night thanks to the dark variation.
As with most editor color schemes, Solarized’s TextMate theme over-uses colors. In fact, it was hard to find scopes of text that weren’t given a non-default color.
I generally dislike my text editor looking like confetti, and find that scanning a document that utilizes only a few colors is much easier in the long term. Thus, solarized-simple was born.