Paseo’s 6 built-in themes all have too much contrast—the whites are too white and the blacks are too black, making it hard on the eyes when you’re staring at code. So I built a Solarized Light theme plugin for Paseo: low contrast, soft and easy on the eyes, friendly for long sessions in front of the screen.
I’d thought about modifying Paseo’s bundle to inject a theme before, but that means re-patching it with every upgrade—a hassle. Not anymore: Paseo officially introduced the plugin theme API plugin.addTheme in v0.5.0, so you can just implement it as a plugin, without modifying any Paseo files, and nothing is lost on upgrade. Even better, yesterday I found that Paseo has already been updated to 0.7.0, which supports adding plugins/themes directly from GitHub.
Installation (Paseo 0.7.0+)
One command:
paseo plugin add mousebomb/paseo-solarized-light
Then go to Settings → Appearance → Theme and select Solarized Light, and you’re 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, easy-on-the-eyes 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—not just for writing code, but for everyday reading of diffs and logs in Paseo, it’s all in this tone.
The plugin and theme are both under the MIT license, and the code is at github.com/mousebomb/paseo-solarized-light. Stars / issues are welcome.