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 precisley, the
+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.
Thus, this theme has been designed with these 4 palettes in mind:
- Solarized Dark: "universal" works best with this scheme
-- Solarized Light: "universal" works almost as well as 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)
+- 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
- 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 text. For
- example,
+ 2. 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*.
- For Apple's Terminal.app on OS X, this means that Text Settings
should have the `Use bold fonts` checkbox *unselected*.
+ - For XTerm, this may mean setting the `font` and `boldFont` to be the
+ same in your .Xresources or .Xdefaults, e.g.:
+
+ xterm*font: fixed
+ xterm*boldFont: fixed
Example: for iTerm2, these are the correct settings: