Solarized Colorscheme for IntelliJ IDEA

Original Solarized color scheme developed by Ethan Schoonover [email protected]

Adapted for IntelliJ IDEA by:
Adam Vandenberg [email protected]
Johan Kaving [email protected]

Visit the Solarized homepage

See the Solarized homepage for screenshots, details and colorscheme versions for Vim, Mutt, popular terminal emulators and other applications.

Downloads

If you have come across this colorscheme via the IntelliJ-only repository on github see the link above to the Solarized homepage or visit the main Solarized repository.

The IntelliJ-only repository is kept in sync with the main Solarized repository. Issues, bug reports, changelogs are centralized at the main Solarized repository.

Status

These color scheme files are primarily tested with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 10.0.3. 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
General	Yes
Java	Yes
Groovy	Yes
Scala	Only Solarized Dark
Python	Yes
PHP	Yes
XML	Yes
HTML	Yes
RegExp	Only Solarized Dark
Bash	Yes
Markdown	Yes
Custom	Yes
Debugger	Yes
XPath	No
Properties	Only Solarized Dark
Android Logcat	No
Diff	Yes
File Status	No

Installation

Option 1: Install using "Import Settings..."

1. Go to File | Import Settings... and specify the intellij-colors-solarized directory. Clik OK in the dialog that appears.

2. Restart IntelliJ IDEA

3. Go to Preferences | Editor | Colors & Fonts and select one of the new color themes.

Option 2: Manual installation

1. Copy Solarized Dark.xml and Solarized Light.xml to your IntelliJ IDEA preferences color directory. The directory varies, depending on which JetBrains IDE you are using. It is typically in:

   Mac OS X

   • ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea10/colors (IntelliJ IDEA)
   • ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea10CE/colors (IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition),
   • ~/Library/Preferences/WebIDE10/colors (WebIDE or PHPStorm).

   Windows

   • Documents and Settings/<user>/.IntelliJIdea10/config/colors (IntelliJ IDEA)

2. Restart IntelliJ IDEA

3. Go to Preferences | Editor | Colors & Fonts and select one of the new color themes.

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.sh script 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.