I forget this every time I reinstall my machine, so I think it’s time to document it somewhere.
To install Solarized on iTerm2
- Download Solarized
- Unzip it and double click on the colour scheme you want (light or dark)
- Open iTerm2’s preferences.
- Go to colours, load presets and select Solarized. Make sure that the minimum contrast slider is set to low
- Click on text, make sure that “Draw bold text in bright colours” is disabled
Done! You should now have a working colour scheme
One addition: choose “xterm” for the termcap; do not choose “xterm-256color”.
Thanks for this. I always want to look for the settings under appearance, not profiles>colors
“Click on text, make sure that “Draw bold text in bright colours” is disabled” made a big difference in the colors for me with iTerm.
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks^100 make sure that “Draw bold text in bright colours” is disabled
Many thanks! I’ve been using this with Draw bold text in bright colours on forever, and it looks much better now!
“Make sure that the minimum contrast slider is set to low”. Thank you so much! I’ve gone mad over the weekend trying to figure this out.
Best tutorial out there for getting this working. Seriously, you should be the number one hit on Google. Thank you!
Thank you – as with others, “Draw bold text in bright colors” was ruining my day. Didn’t even realise until I was almost ready to submit a bug report to a terminal formatting lib that was displaying all bold colours as grey. Cheers !