Re: Better colorscheme than Solarized?

Blue-Maned_Hawk:

> I'm  looking for a color scheme that's better than
> Solarized.  While i do like Solarized  (especially
> the 256-color Solarized), there are a few problems
> that i have with it, such  as  the  way  that  the
> palette  fails  to map to the traditional 16-color
> palette and the  somewhat  strange  imbalances  in
> some of the colors.

I have never seen a 256-color version, nor am inter-
ested in it.  The one I know is 16-color:

   https://github.com/altercation/solarized

And I don't think it is as good as advertised:

1. Some colors are too similar (red and orange).

2. The light version has perceptually less  contrast
   than the dark one.

3. The  brighnesses  are overequalised, whereas some
   variation is desirable.

4. The hues and saturations are chosed using the LAB
   color  model, which, although perceptive, has its
   imperfections. The human is the ultimate judge.

> So what i'm looking for is  a  color  scheme  like
> this:
>
> -- About the same level of contrast as Solarized
>
> -- Easily invertible, like what Solarized does
>
> -- Maps  to the traditional 16-color palette (i.e.
>    has bright and darks of the  primaries,  secon-
>    daries, black, and white)
>
> -- Colors  are balanced and not biased towards any
>    particular color (e.g.  not warm- or cool-lean-
>    ing)
>
> -- Doesn't  make  assumptions about how it will be
>    used (e.g. doesn't go "red should be  more  in-
>    tense  because it's often used for warnings" or
>    some bullshit like that)
>
> Does anyone know of something that fits the bill?

No, and I checked lots of ANSI-compatible  palettes.
Very  manage  so much as barely to work in Far, Nor-
ton, and Midnight Commander.  I am currenly  working
on  a  improved version of the standard eye-piercing
ANSI palatte with most  of  your  goals  except  in-
versibility.

P.S.: I can read your articles in Sylpheed, but dis-
      approve of their format.

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