This is a Solarized color scheme for the Windows command prompt, with major contributions by Neil Pankey and Ryan Beesley.
See the Solarized home page for screenshots and more details, as well as color schemes for other applications. To contribute or file bug reports or issues, please visit the GitHub repo for this port, or the main Solarized repository.
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Making Solarized work for cmd.exe, Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, and PowerShell, and striking a balance with how other Solarized projects are implemented presents some challenges. The following table shows how the colors are mapped.
| SOLARIZED | HEX | ANSI | TERMCOL | cmd.exe | PowerShell | ColorTable | DWORD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| base03 | #002b36 | ESC[0;30m | brblack | Black | Black | 00 | 00362b00 |
| base02 | #073642 | ESC[1;30m | black | Gray | DarkGray | 08 | 00423607 |
| base01 | #586e75 | ESC[0;32m | brgreen | Green | DarkGreen | 02 | 00756e58 |
| base00 | #657b83 | ESC[0;33m | bryellow | Yellow | DarkYellow | 06 | 00837b65 |
| base0 | #839496 | ESC[0;34m | brblue | Blue | DarkBlue | 01 | 00969483 |
| base1 | #93a1a1 | ESC[0;36m | brcyan | Aqua | DarkCyan | 03 | 00a1a193 |
| base2 | #eee8d5 | ESC[0;37m | white | White | Gray | 07 | 00d5e8ee |
| base3 | #fdf6e3 | ESC[1;37m | brwhite | BrightWhite | White | 15 | 00e3f6fd |
| yellow | #b58900 | ESC[1;33m | yellow | LightYellow | Yellow | 14 | 000089b5 |
| orange | #cb4b16 | ESC[0;31m | brred | Red | DarkRed | 04 | 00164bcb |
| red | #dc322f | ESC[1;31m | red | LightRed | Red | 12 | 002f32dc |
| magenta | #d33682 | ESC[1;35m | magenta | LightPurple | Magenta | 13 | 008236d3 |
| violet | #6c71c4 | ESC[0;35m | brmagenta | Purple | DarkMagenta | 05 | 00c4716c |
| blue | #268bd2 | ESC[1;34m | blue | LightBlue | Blue | 09 | 00d28b26 |
| cyan | #2aa198 | ESC[1;36m | cyan | LightAqua | Cyan | 11 | 0098a12a |
| green | #859900 | ESC[1;32m | green | LightGreen | Green | 10 | 00009985 |
To make sure that the terminal is likely to use the best matching, the ColorTable is aligned with TERMCOL values. These values were pulled from PuTTY and other Solarized terminal profiles. This allows the same ANSI escape sequences to show the same in ANSI supported terminals. The PowerShell default colors are also matched for the $Host.PrivateData and PSReadLine to make them seemingly fit with the rest of the environments.
Below are very simplified installation instructions. It will not update existing shortcuts because they have their own color mapping. It will not always play nice with traditional unix tools or compatability shims because Windows uses a fundamentally different color code mapping.
Import the .reg file of choice, e.g. regedit /s solarized-dark.reg.
Both files contain the same palettes, the only difference is the default
foreground and background colors. Therefore you can switch between themes on
the fly with color 01 for dark and color F6 for light.
Copy the Set-Solarized*ColorDefaults.ps1 files to your profile directory,
likely ~\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\. Then add the following line of code
to the end of your Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 or profile.ps1:
. (Join-Path -Path (Split-Path -Parent -Path $PROFILE) -ChildPath $(switch($HOST.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor.ToString()){'White'{'Set-SolarizedLightColorDefaults.ps1'}'Black'{'Set-SolarizedDarkColorDefaults.ps1'}default{return}}))
The file windows-defaults.reg is provided to restore the command prompt
colors back to their shipping defaults. The registry settings have been
checked for versions of Windows back to at least Windows 7 and the values are
the same.
To restore the defaults, import the .reg the same way as you applied it
previously, regedit /s windows-defaults.reg. You will also want to revert
any changes you made to your PowerShell profile.
