Solarized Colorscheme for IntelliJ IDEA
Original Solarized color scheme developed by Ethan Schoonover es@ethanschoonover.com
Adapted for IntelliJ IDEA by:
Adam Vandenberg flangy@gmail.com
Johan Kaving johan@kaving.se
Visit the Solarized homepage
See the Solarized homepage for screenshots, details and color scheme versions for Vim, Mutt, popular terminal emulators and other applications. These versions can also be found in the mainSolarized repository on GitHub.
Unfortunately the IntelliJ subtree in the main repository has not been updated and is out-of-sync with this repository.
For IntelliJ this IntelliJ-only repository is therefore recommended over the main repository.
Status
These color scheme files are primarily tested with the latest version of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. They might work with other versions of IntelliJ IDEA as well as other JetBrains tools (e.g. PhpStorm and PyCharm).
This table lists the languages (and other sections under Preferences | Editor | Colors & Fonts) for which the syntax
highlighting has been adapted to the Solarized color scheme:
| Language/Section | Supported | Note |
|---|---|---|
| ActionScript | Yes | |
| Android Logcat | Yes | |
| Apache Config | Yes | |
| BEMHTML | Yes | |
| Bash | Yes | (BashSupport 1.1beta14 or later) |
| Buildout config | Yes | |
| C | No | |
| C++ | No | |
| CMD | Yes | |
| CSS | Yes | |
| Clojure Templates | Yes | |
| CoffeeScript | Yes | |
| Custom Templates | Yes | |
| Dart | Yes | |
| Debugger | Yes | |
| Diff | Yes | |
| Django/Jinja2 Template | Yes | |
| Erlang | Yes | |
| File Status | Yes | |
| General | Yes | |
| Gherkin (Cucumber) | Yes | |
| Google Go | Yes | |
| GQL | Yes | |
| Groovy | Yes | |
| HAML | Yes | |
| HTML | Yes | |
| Haskell | Yes | |
| JFlex | Yes | |
| Jade | Yes | |
| Java | Yes | |
| JavaScript | Yes | |
| JSP | Yes | |
| Jodd props file | Yes | |
| Kotlin | Yes | |
| LESS | Yes | |
| Localization file | Yes | |
| Lua | Yes | |
| Mako Template | Yes | |
| Markdown | Yes | |
| Objective-C | Yes | |
| PHP | Yes | |
| Properties | Yes | |
| Python | Yes | |
| ReST file | Yes | |
| RegExp | Yes | |
| Ruby | Yes | |
| SASS | Yes | |
| SQL | Yes | |
| Scala | Yes | |
| Tea | Yes | |
| Twig | Yes | |
| XML | Yes | |
| XPath | Yes | |
| YAML | Yes |
Installation
Option 1: Install using "Import Settings..."
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Go to
File | Import Settings...and specify theintellij-colors-solarizeddirectory or thesettings.jarfile. ClickOKin the dialog that appears. -
Restart IntelliJ IDEA
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Go to
Preferences | Editor | Colors & Fontsand select one of the new color themes.
Option 2: Manual installation
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Copy
Solarized Dark.xmlandSolarized Light.xmlto your IntelliJ IDEA preferences color directory. The directory varies, depending on which JetBrains IDE you are using.The colors directory may need to be created.
It is typically in:
Mac OS X
~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea13/colors(IntelliJ IDEA 13 Ultimate Edition),~/Library/Preferences/IdeaIC13/colors(IntelliJ IDEA 13 Community Edition),~/Library/Preferences/WebIDE70/colors(PHPStorm 7.0),~/Library/Preferences/WebIDE80/colors(PHPStorm 8.0),~/Library/Preferences/WebStorm8/colors(WebStorm 8.0).
Windows
%USERPROFILE%.IdeaIC13configcolors(IntelliJ IDEA 13 Community Edition),%USERPROFILE%.PyCharm40configcolors(PyCharm 4.5 Community Edition).
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Restart IntelliJ IDEA
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Go to
Preferences | Editor | Colors & Fontsand select one of the new color themes.
Darcula
Depending on the Look and Feel that you use the background color for editor tabs will be different. The default L&F has a light gray background, while the Darcula L&F has a dark background.
It is hard to find colors that work equally well on both light and dark backgrounds, and therefore thesettings.jar file
contains Darcula versions of the color schemes.
The only difference from the regular versions is the file status colors and the Darcula schemes are automatically generated by the buildjar.sh script.
Note About Fonts
Unfortunately, font settings are included in the color settings files. You should probably modify these in Preferences
| Editor | Colors & Fonts | Font after adding the color schemes to your IntelliJ IDEA installation.
Note About Committing Changes
If you want to commit updates to the XML color scheme files, make sure to run the buildjar.shscript before committing
to generate an updated settings.jar file as well. The script has been tested on OS X, on other operating
systems you're on your own.