Paseo’s 6 built-in themes all have contrast that’s way too high — the whites are too white and the blacks are too black, and staring at them while writing code hurts your eyes. So I built a Solarized Light theme plugin for Paseo: low contrast, soft on the eyes, easy to look at for long stretches.
I’d thought about patching Paseo’s bundle to inject a theme, but that means re-patching on every upgrade. Not needed anymore — Paseo officially introduced the plugin theme API plugin.addTheme in v0.5.0, so you can just do it with a plugin, without modifying a single Paseo file, and nothing is lost on upgrade. Even better, I found out yesterday that Paseo has already been updated to 0.7.0, which supports adding plugins/themes straight from GitHub.
Installation (Paseo 0.7.0+)
One command:
paseo plugin add mousebomb/paseo-solarized-light
Then go to Settings → Appearance → Theme and pick Solarized Light. Done.
Versions before 0.7.0 work too, via installing from the source directory — see the README for details.
Colors
Based on Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized palette, the classic low-contrast, eye-friendly color scheme:
- Background
#fdf6e3(base3, beige) - Foreground
#657b83(base00) - Accent
#cb4b16(orange)
My eyes feel much better after using it. I’ve already switched over myself — besides writing code, I now look at diffs and logs in Paseo in this same palette.
The plugin and theme are both MIT licensed, and the code is at github.com/mousebomb/paseo-solarized-light — stars and issues welcome.