🌗 A color scheme for human eyes looking at terminal emulators.
See the colors here.
I recommend temperance-day when working in well-lit environments and
temperance-dusk when working in dark environments.
The color scheme is based on the following design specifications:
- Have a dark and a light version
- Have a cold (blue-tinted) and a warm (orange-tinted) version
- special focus should be on the warm version to make sure it reduces blue light exposure from usually blue-heavy screens somewhat
- Have a deliberately decreased contrast range
- Have two extra variants with maximized contrast (full black and white)
- e.g. for working in the sun on a not-so-bright display
- To keep some distance between foreground and background colors, even without full contrast, use roughly opposite color hues
- Create a sort of color intensity gradient with the black and white colors and their intense versions. Have the foreground color be somewhere in the middle
- Use roughly isoluminant colors for the ANSI colors and try to adhere to the naming
- Work in (polar) CIELAB colorspace
This set of specifications almost invariably creates a Solarized-like colorscheme, plus a complement of warm dark and cold light versions. (And then of course the high-contrast versions.) While having been inspired by Solarized, the specifications have not been chosen to simply make a recreation of it (or to even try to live up to it). The main goals of this colorscheme are to play nicely with terminals and to be eye-friendly, especially with regards to of blue light exposure.
In my humble opinion, the color scheme should be the responsibility of the terminal emulator, while applications running inside of it should work with the abstracted named colors. Thus, I recommend vim-dim. Temperance has been designed to work with it, though I do apply some minor modifications in my vim configuration.
julia --threads=auto --project=. -e 'import Pkg; Pkg.instantiate()'
julia --threads=auto --project=. temperance-color-scheme.jl