Retro groove color scheme for Vim with light and dark mode switching.
Open source
24 alternativesSolarized
Solarized provides dark and light color scheme ports for applications such as terminals and Vim.
About Solarized
Solarized is a sixteen color palette with eight monotones and eight accent colors for terminal and GUI applications. It uses precise CIELAB lightness relationships and fixed color wheel hues. It reduces brightness contrast while retaining contrasting hues for syntax highlighting, and keeps the same contrast relationships when switching between light and dark modes.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- Ports for Vim, Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans and Visual Studio
- Files for Xresources, iTerm2, OS X Terminal.app, PuTTY and Xfce terminal
- Color settings for Mutt email client
- Palette files for Adobe Photoshop, Apple Color Picker and GIMP
- Download files or clone the full Git repository
Watch out for
- TextMate dark theme noted as work in progress
- Xcode ports noted as work in progress
- Current release listed as v1.0.0beta2
Solarized at a glance
- Category
- Software & Utilities › Desktop Customization
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Details verified
- Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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