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@wpkelso wpkelso commented Feb 5, 2026

Closes #975

Solarized labels the dark mode background color asbrblack, but as it's the background, it shouldn't be used as such in context. This changes brblack to use base1 to maintain adequate contrast.

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jeremypw commented Feb 5, 2026

@danirabbit This might slightly change the screenshot of the custom theme dialog so you might want to hold #984 'til this is merged (or rejected). Do you have any objection to this PR? I haven't tried it yet.

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<key name="palette" type="s">
<default>"#073642:#dc322f:#859900:#b58900:#268bd2:#d33682:#2aa198:#eee8d5:#002b36:#dc322f:#586e75:#657b83:#839496:#6c71c4:#93a1a1:#fdf6e3"</default>
<default>"#073642:#dc322f:#859900:#b58900:#268bd2:#d33682:#2aa198:#eee8d5:#073642:#dc322f:#586e75:#657b83:#839496:#6c71c4:#93a1a1:#fdf6e3"</default>
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Are you sure this is right? From reading the bug description it sounds like we actually need this to be much brighter. In the dark elementary theme for example this is #5e5c64 (which I'm not sure if we need to check that for contrast). It looks like maybe the better color in the solarized palette would be like base0 or base1

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Yeah, I made the same mistake as was originally done and used a literal reading of the Solarized spec. base1 probably makes the most sense to use, as we're not going to avoid conflicts no matter what we choose

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