# sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized

Emacs highlighting using Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized color scheme

Repository: https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/emacs-color-theme-solarized
Homepage: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Language: Emacs Lisp
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-03-13T07:21:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 37/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 11, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5627, "days_push": 538, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1163, forks 199 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:49.771312+00:00)

## What it is
An Emacs color theme implementing Ethan Schoonover's Solarized palette, providing light and dark variants with precise CIELAB-based color relationships. It supports both GUI and terminal Emacs frames, including per-frame background-mode switching.

## Use cases
- apply solarized color scheme to emacs
- switch emacs theme between light and dark mode
- terminal emacs color theme
- install solarized theme with use-package
- reduce eye strain with low-contrast editor colors

## When to choose
- you use Emacs and want the Solarized palette
- you need mixed light and dark frames in one session
- you want a theme synced with OS appearance

## When to avoid
- you use a different editor like Vim or VS Code
- you want a theme outside the Solarized palette

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: theme
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: editor-plugin, cross-platform
- tags: emacs, color-scheme, solarized, syntax-highlighting, emacs-lisp

## Member repositories
- sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized (main) score 37

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:49.771312+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:31:35.152899+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:49.771312+00:00, sha e17a50a86c85)
  - homepage: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized (fetched 2026-08-29T12:35:54.376490+00:00, sha 5c05b55f81b8)
  - site_page: https://ethanschoonover.com/colophon (fetched 2026-08-29T12:35:54.386292+00:00, sha dd04888cadc9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.