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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255346 Archived-At: Arthur Miller 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. > > [=E2=80=A6] 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 =E2=80=9Cstrange=E2=80=9D. --=20 Ricardo