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 main Solarized 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..."

1. Go to File | Import Settings... and specify the intellij-colors-solarized directory or the settings.jar file. Click 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.icls and Solarized Light.icls to 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/IntelliJIdeaXX/colors (IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition),
   • ~/Library/Preferences/IdeaICXX/colors (IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition),
   • ~/Library/Preferences/WebIDE70/colors (PHPStorm 7.0),
   • ~/Library/Preferences/WebIDE80/colors (PHPStorm 8.0),
   • ~/Library/Preferences/WebStorm8/colors (WebStorm 8.0).

   Linux

   • ~/.<PRODUCT><VERSION>/colors Generic path,
   • ~/.IdeaICXX/config/colors (IntelliJ IDEA),
   • ~/.PyCharmXX/colors (PyCharm).

   Windows

   • %USERPROFILE%\.IdeaICXX\config\colors (IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition),
   • %USERPROFILE%\.PyCharm40\config\colors (PyCharm 4.5 Community Edition).

2. Restart IntelliJ IDEA

3. Go to Preferences | Editor | Colors & Fonts and 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 the settings.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 ICLS 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.