Solarized Jekyll Theme

As I’ve decided to design this blog without any image nor CSS 3 fancy feature (gradients & shadows particularly), I had to come up with a perfect color scheme, pleasing to read and visually balanced.

There are millions of predefined color palettes available to download. And I’m bad at browsing and taking a quick decision with a whole world of options ahead of me.

So I had to find that one particular color theme that makes you forget all the others and regret not having found it before.

When looking for a performant JavaScript syntax highlighter, I discovered the exceptional highlight.js (auto-detects the language, needs only 2 files) which provides a handfull of color styles. And one of them instantly caught my eye: Solarized.

Its tagline reads as:

Precision colors for machines and people

Precise, it is. Balanced, too. And gorgeous, hell yeah! It’s a color palette meant for terminal and gui applications, and works incredibly well as a theme for IDEs & text editors.

Why not make use for it in a blog theme?