Selenized is quite complete, but there are some things that could still be done. Some ideas for the future:
- better, more nuanced syntax highlighting rules (see issue 68)
- web interface for adjusting Selenized to your taste
- a library that would allow "fixing" existing color palettes (by adjusting Lab lightness of their colors while keeping original hue and saturation)
- learn more about perceptually uniform color spaces - maybe they could be used to improve consistency of Selenized colors even further? See here and here.
And of course, adding support for more programs, terminals, editors, IDEs etc.
If you'd like to help but are not sure where to start, contact me at [email protected]. Also, please open an issue if you found a program that doesn't look good with Selenized colors in your terminal.
You are welcome to adjust Selenized to your taste - I can imagine that some people may want to change the hue of the background/content colors or adjust the contrast slightly. When doing so, please keep in mind the following (especially if you'd like to publish your fork and use "Selenized" in its name):
- always use CIELAB color space to check lightness of the resulting colors. You don't need Photoshop for this - there are online tools for CIELAB-sRGB conversion (although they may produce slightly different results than Photoshop).
- keep overall contrast (i.e. difference in CIELAB lightness between foreground and background colors) between 45 and 65 units. Anything outside this range is really not good.
- keep accent color contrast (i.e. difference in CIELAB lightness between accent color and background) above 30 units. This really is the minimum.
- preferably don't change accent color hues and their relative lightness at all.