Light iTerm colour schemes
SoftwareI use and love Solarized Dark for my afternoon and evening work, but I find its equivalent Light theme and spelling lacking. I need bright colours in the morning to wake up, especially after a late night that may not have involved the aforementioned dark theme.
My requirements for light themes are:
-
Blue or white tints, not cream or yellow. I use light themes in the morning, and find blue and white visually fresh and stimulating.
-
A distinct, different colour for bold text. I first saw this used to great effect on NetBSD’s man pages, and use it everywhere now. I don’t think colours belong in a bashrc; set as bold and let your terminal emulator pick it based on your circumstances (am I in an SSH session, or limited to 16 colours, etc).
-
The name should be spelled correctly to fit my favourite colour spelling. For those who can’t pick it up, I’m being sarcastic. Mostly.
Nearly all the light themes I surveyed fit the first criteria, but not the second. I’d all but given up hope, until I found PencilLight by mattly.
In a word, it’s refreshing, right down to the choice of minty-green and the slightly-off white which I’m a fan of (as evidenced by my site resign). The blue is one of my favourite schades [sic], and the yellow has a clear and pleasing level of contrast.
If you’re going to spend most of your life looking at a shell, may as well make it as nice as it can be, and this is. He also managed to find a pair of words all English speakers can agree on their spelling, which is an added bonus.
