# lifepillar/vim-solarized8

Optimized Solarized colorschemes. Best served with true-color terminals!

Repository: https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vim-solarized8
Language: Vim Script
License Family: other
Topics: vim, color-scheme
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-03-11T14:27:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 71, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3761, "days_push": 175, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1046, forks 95 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:21.716943+00:00)

## What it is
A set of optimized Solarized colorschemes for Vim and Neovim, designed to work out of the box with true-color (24-bit) terminals and GUI versions. It falls back to an approximate 256-color palette on terminals without true-color support.

## Use cases
- apply a solarized colorscheme in vim
- get true color solarized theme in terminal vim
- vim colorscheme that works in gui and terminal
- solarized theme for neovim
- fix solarized colors in 256 color terminal
- dark and light solarized variants for vim

## When to choose
- you use Vim or Neovim with a true-color terminal or GUI and want the Solarized palette without configuration
- you want a maintained Solarized variant that avoids the original's terminal limitations

## When to avoid
- you use an editor other than Vim or Neovim
- you need a license-clarified project (the repository has no explicit license)
- you want a heavily customized palette rather than the standard Solarized colors

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: theme
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors
- platform: cross-platform, cli
- tags: vim, colorscheme, solarized, true-color, neovim, command-line

## Member repositories
- lifepillar/vim-solarized8 (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.716943+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 2026-08-30T07:01:57.878368+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.716943+00:00, sha 6058b273d2b5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.