Solarized Color Theme for irssi
===============================
-Initially created by Huy Z \<huy-git-pub circled-a huyzing.com\>, this is a
+Initially created by [huyz](https://github.com/huyz), this is a
repository of themes for the [irssi] IRC chat client that support Ethan
Schoonover’s [Solarized] color scheme.
implementations for terminal emulators and other applications, such as Vim,
Emacs, and Mutt.
-Understanding Solarized Colors in Terminals
--------------------------------------------
-
-### Solarized Colors vs. ANSI Colors ###
-
-8-color terminal programs such as irssi use color codes that correspond to the
-expected 8 normal ANSI colors. irssi additionally supports bold, which
-terminal emulators will usually display by using the *bright* versions of the 8
-ANSI colors and/or by using a bold typeface with a heavier weight. (Note that
-different terminal emulators may have slightly different ideas of what color
-values to use when displaying the 16 [ANSI color escape
-codes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors).)
-
-In order to be displayed by 8-color terminal programs, which cannot specify RGB
-values, Solarized must replace the default ANSI colors. Since the Solarized
-palette uses 16 colors, not only must this color scheme replace the 8 normal
-colors but must also take over the 8 *bright* colors, for a total of 16 colors.
-This means that a Solarized terminal application loses the ability to bold text
-but gains 8 more Solarized colors.
-
-About half of the Solarized palette is reminiscent of the original ANSI
-colors, e.g. Solarized red is close to ANSI red (or more precisely, the
-general consensus of what ANSI red should look like). But the rest of the
-Solarized colors do not correspond to any ANSI colors, e.g. there is no ANSI
-color that corresponds to Solarized orange or purple.
-
-This means that, for example, if the irssi theme wants to display "green", a
-Solarized terminal will display something close to green, but if the theme
-wants to display "bold yellow" or "bright yellow", a Solarized terminal will
-not be able to display it. However, a Solarized theme will be able to display
-the new colors orange and purple and also several shades of gray. This is
-again thanks to the replacement of the ANSI *bright* colors; e.g. ANSI "bold
-red", which is usually displayed as "bright red", will now show as Solarized
-orange, while ANSI "bold blue", which is usually displayed as "bright blue",
-will now be a shade of gray.
-
-### Terminal Emulator ###
-
-Because irssi is an ANSI 8-color terminal program, it is entirely dependent on
-the terminal emulator for the display of its colors. You cannot directly tell
-an irssi theme to display Solarized orange, e.g. by specifying an RGB value.
-Instead, the theme's colors must be chosen using the ANSI color codes with the
-expectation that the terminal emulator will display them as appropriate
-Solarized colors. For example, the irssi color format `%R` which normally
-would be "bold red" is expected to be displayed by the terminal emulator as
-Solarized orange.
-
-So in order for irssi to display the Solarized palette, you have to set your
-Terminal emulator's color settings to the Solarized palette. The [Solarized
-repository] includes theme settings for some popular terminal emulators as
-well as Xdefaults; or you can download them from the official [Solarized]
-homepage. If you use the irssi themes *without* having changed your
-emulator's palette, you will get a strange selection of colors that may be
-hard to read.
-
-Yes, this means that, to use the Solarized theme for irssi, you need to change
-color settings for not one but two different programs: your terminal emulator
-and irssi. The two sets of settings will work in concert to display Solarized
-colors appropriately.
-
-### Bold Settings ###
-
-Historically, there has been a one-to-one correspondence between the bolded
-versions of the 8 default ANSI colors and the bright versions of the 8 default
-colors. Back in the day, when a color program demanded the display of bold
-text, it was probably just easier for terminal emulators to display a brighter
-version of whatever color the text was (and expect the user to interpret that
-as bold) than to display a typeface with a bold weight
-
-Nowadays, it is easy for terminal emulators to display bold typefaces, so it
-doesn't make sense for bolded text to change color, but the confusing
-association remains. In fact, new terminal emulators allow users to break the
-correspondence between bold and bright and can simply change the font.
-
-However, ANSI 8-color terminal applications such as irssi only have a
-conception of bold and don't know about the possibility of using up to 16
-colors. So to use all 16 Solarized colors, we change the semantics of "bold"
-in the theme to mean that we want to access the 8 new Solarized colors,
-including the grays. Recall the example above, where we described that the
-irssi color format `%R`, which would have normally displayed bold red, is
-expected to show up as Solarized orange.
-
-This is why it is important to *not* break the association between bold and
-bright colors. Many terminal emulators offer an option to disable the use of
-bright colors for bold, and you must not do so. Often, new users of Solarized
-will be confused when they change their terminal emulator's color palette to
-Solarized but haven't yet installed Solarized-specific color themes for all
-their terminal applications (e.g. mutt, ls's dircolors, irssi, and their
-colorized shell prompts). They will see texts that are hard to read or
-disappear entirely. The solution isn't to disable bright colors; the solution
-is to install Solarized color themes for all terminal applications and then you
-will have all 16 colors.
-
-Also, because the semantics of "bold" are lost in favor of more colors, it
-also makes sense to disable the display of bold text as a bold typeface. It
-won't hurt to see bold typefaces wherever the new 8 Solarized colors are
-displayed but it doesn't make much sense anymore.
-
Universal theme
---------------
been set up, you won't have elements become invisible or incrediby hard to
read.
-Thus, this theme has been designed with these 4 palettes in mind:
+Thus, this theme was designed with these 4 palettes in mind:
-- Solarized Dark: "universal" works best with this scheme
-- Solarized Light: "universal" works with this scheme almost as well as with
- Solarized Dark (you probably won't notice the difference, but if you do, it
- could be optimized slightly by switching the theme's use of some of the
- Solarized base colors)
-- Default dark-background terminal colors
-- Default light-background terminal colors
+- Solarized Dark: the theme works best when the terminal emulator is
+ set to this scheme
+- Solarized Light: the theme works, when the terminal emulator is set
+ to this scheme, almost as well as with Solarized Dark (you probably won't
+ notice the difference, but if you do, it could be optimized slightly by
+ switching the theme's use of some of the Solarized base colors)
+- Default terminal ANSI Colors with a dark background
+- Default terminal ANSI Colors with a light background
This theme was designed to be clean and functional, starting from the default
theme distributed with irssi. Colors are strictly used for functionality and
you may want to check the main [Solarized repository] to see if there is an
official theme.
-At some point, the [irssi-only repository] may be kept in sync with the main
-[Solarized repository] and would then only be preserved separately for
-installation convenience only. At this time, issues, bug reports, changelogs
-are to be reported at the [irssi-only repository].
+In the future, the [irssi-only repository] may be kept in sync with the main
+[Solarized repository], but the [irssi-only repository] may be left separate
+for installation convenience and to include the latest improvements.
+
+At this time, issues, bug reports, changelogs are to be reported at the
+[irssi-only repository].
[Solarized repository]: https://github.com/altercation/solarized
[irssi-only repository]: https://github.com/huyz/irssi-colors-solarized
Installation
------------
-1. Make sure that you have changed your terminal emulator's color settings to
- the Solarized palette. (See the section "Understanding Solarized Colors in
- Terminals" for an explanation.)
+1. Configure your terminal emulator (See the section "Understanding Solarized Colors in
+ Terminals" for a detailed explanation behind these settings)
- 1. Make sure that bold text is displayed using bright colors. For example,
+ 1. Make sure that you have changed your terminal emulator's color settings to
+ the Solarized palette.
+
+ 2. Make sure that bold text is displayed using bright colors. For example,
- For iTerm2 on OS X, this means that Text Preferences must have the `Draw
bold text in bright colors` checkbox *selected*.
- For Apple's Terminal.app on OS X, this means that Text Settings must
have the `Use bright colors for bold text` checkbox *selected*.
- 2. It's recommended to turn off the display of bold typeface for bold
+ 3. It's recommended to turn off the display of bold typeface for bold
text. For example,
- For iTerm2 on OS X, this means that Text Preferences should have the
`Draw bold text in bold font` checkbox *unselected*.
...
};
+Understanding Solarized Colors in Terminals
+-------------------------------------------
+
+### Solarized Colors vs. ANSI Colors ###
+
+8-color terminal programs such as irssi use color codes that correspond to the
+expected 8 normal ANSI colors. irssi additionally supports bold, which
+terminal emulators will usually display by using the *bright* versions of the 8
+ANSI colors and/or by using a bold typeface with a heavier weight. (Note that
+different terminal emulators may have slightly different ideas of what color
+values to use when displaying the 16 [ANSI color escape
+codes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors).)
+
+In order to be displayed by 8-color terminal programs, which cannot specify RGB
+values, Solarized must replace the default ANSI colors. Since the Solarized
+palette uses 16 colors, not only must this color scheme replace the 8 normal
+colors but must also take over the 8 *bright* colors, for a total of 16 colors.
+This means that a Solarized terminal application loses the ability to bold text
+but gains 8 more Solarized colors.
+
+About half of the Solarized palette is reminiscent of the original ANSI
+colors, e.g. Solarized red is close to ANSI red (or more precisely, the
+general consensus of what ANSI red should look like). But the rest of the
+Solarized colors do not correspond to any ANSI colors, e.g. there is no ANSI
+color that corresponds to Solarized orange or purple.
+
+This means that, for example, if the irssi theme wants to display "green", a
+Solarized terminal will display something close to green, but if the theme
+wants to display "bold yellow" or "bright yellow", a Solarized terminal will
+not be able to display it. However, a Solarized theme will be able to display
+the new colors orange and purple and also several shades of gray. This is
+again thanks to the replacement of the ANSI *bright* colors; e.g. ANSI "bold
+red", which is usually displayed as "bright red", will now show as Solarized
+orange, while ANSI "bold blue", which is usually displayed as "bright blue",
+will now be a shade of gray.
+
+### Terminal Emulator ###
+
+Because irssi is an ANSI 8-color terminal program, it is entirely dependent on
+the terminal emulator for the display of its colors. You cannot directly tell
+an irssi theme to display Solarized orange, e.g. by specifying an RGB value.
+Instead, the theme's colors must be chosen using the ANSI color codes with the
+expectation that the terminal emulator will display them as appropriate
+Solarized colors. For example, the irssi color format `%R` which normally
+would be "bold red" is expected to be displayed by the terminal emulator as
+Solarized orange.
+
+So in order for irssi to display the Solarized palette, you have to set your
+Terminal emulator's color settings to the Solarized palette. The [Solarized
+repository] includes theme settings for some popular terminal emulators as
+well as Xresources; or you can download them from the official [Solarized]
+homepage. If you use the irssi themes *without* having changed your
+emulator's palette, you will get a strange selection of colors that may be
+hard to read.
+
+Yes, this means that, to use the Solarized theme for irssi, you need to change
+color settings for not one but two different programs: your terminal emulator
+and irssi. The two sets of settings will work in concert to display Solarized
+colors appropriately.
+
+### Bold Settings ###
+
+Historically, there has been a one-to-one correspondence between the bolded
+versions of the 8 default ANSI colors and the bright versions of the 8 default
+colors. Back in the day, when a color program demanded the display of bold
+text, it was probably just easier for terminal emulators to display a brighter
+version of whatever color the text was (and expect the user to interpret that
+as bold) than to display a typeface with a bold weight
+
+Nowadays, it is easy for terminal emulators to display bold typefaces, so it
+doesn't make sense for bolded text to change color, but the confusing
+association remains. In fact, new terminal emulators allow users to break the
+correspondence between bold and bright and can simply change the font.
+
+However, ANSI 8-color terminal applications such as irssi only have a
+conception of bold and don't know about the possibility of using up to 16
+colors. So to use all 16 Solarized colors, we change the semantics of "bold"
+in the theme to mean that we want to access the 8 new Solarized colors,
+including the grays. Recall the example above, where we described that the
+irssi color format `%R`, which would have normally displayed bold red, is
+expected to show up as Solarized orange.
+
+This is why it is important to *not* break the association between bold and
+bright colors. Many terminal emulators offer an option to disable the use of
+bright colors for bold, and you must not do so. Often, new users of Solarized
+will be confused when they change their terminal emulator's color palette to
+Solarized but haven't yet installed Solarized-specific color themes for all
+their terminal applications (e.g. mutt, ls's dircolors, irssi, and their
+colorized shell prompts). They will see texts that are hard to read or
+disappear entirely. The solution isn't to disable bright colors; the solution
+is to install Solarized color themes for all terminal applications and then you
+will have all 16 colors.
+
+Also, because the semantics of "bold" are lost in favor of more colors, it
+also makes sense to disable the display of bold text as a bold typeface. It
+won't hurt to see bold typefaces wherever the new 8 Solarized colors are
+displayed but it doesn't make much sense anymore.
The Solarized Color Values
v.licheni.net / stack / conf / irssi-colors-solarized.git / blobdiff