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:

Installation

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

1. Download the latest version of settings.jar from the releases page.

2. Go to File | Import Settings... and select the downloaded settings.jar file. Click OK in the dialog that appears.

3. Restart IntelliJ IDEA

4. macOS

   • Go to Preferences | Editor | Colors Scheme and select one of the new color themes.

   Windows / Linux

   • Go to File | Settings... | Editor | Color Scheme and select one of the new color themes.

Option 2: Manual installation

1. Clone this repository

2. 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:

   macOS

   • ~/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).

3. Restart IntelliJ IDEA

4. macOS

   • Go to Preferences | Editor | Colors Scheme and select one of the new color themes.

   Windows / Linux

   • Go to File | Settings... | Editor | Color Scheme 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 that these color schemes inherit their default colors from the Darcula theme rather than from Default.

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.