Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Arthur Miller]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>
>> Anyway, if you gonna include a new theme or color framework in Emacs, I
>> think you should include Solarized as ported by B. Batsov:
>>
>> https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs
>>
>> Furthermore his theme could be simplified and ported to a framework,
>> call it "colorized" which could consist of 8 base colors + 8 accented
>> colors + 8 lighter/darker accented colors. That gives a total of
>> framework 32 colors, which should be more then enough to theme a
>> screen/application.
>>
>> […] Maybe there could
>> be a color guidance and framework for extensions to use and follow to
>> offer more visual coherence as well as ease of modding and choosing a
>> color theme. I think Batsov's Solarized makes a good candidate to turn
>> it into such framework.
>
> I support this motion.
>
> Solarized is very easy on the eyes, available for many other
> applications, and it is the result of a simple set of harmonized colours
> that are optimized for equal contrast.
>
> It can easily be customized to use different colours without looking
> “strange”.
I guess most of you are familiar with Solarized, but for those that are
not here is the original author's page that explains "the science"
behind it:

https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/