[kibwen]

Solarized provides a great mapping table between terminal color names and various color spaces.

Have to disagree slightly with this. Solarized is a great starting point, but, last time I checked, using the provided mapping table leads bold green, bold blue, and (most importantly) nonbold white to all become nearly-indistinguishable shades of grey. This alone damages the utility of the normally-colorized output of `ls`, as well as any tools that expect bold and nonbold versions of the same color to be roughly the same hue.

If you can stand losing Solarized's ability to swap back and forth between light and dark modes, I highly recommend tweaking it to your needs rather then relying on the default.

[zdw]

Similar problem here - I tried Solarized for a while and found that it was too low contrast for my tastes.

I switched to Tim Pope's vividchalk.vim and have been quite happy ever since:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk