Helm chooses unreadable highlight colors in solarized-dark

Question

I'm experimenting with helm, after using icicles for a long time.

I used the popular solarized-dark colour scheme by default most of the time, and helm seems to be choosing particularly unreadable colors:

bad sol-dark colours in helm

...how can I advise helm to select more useful colors? Hopefully so it works well when I switch to solarized-light as well.

Why not report a bug to the maintainers of this color theme? — , Jul 01 '14 at 10:47
is it a colour scheme bug? or a helm bug? or an emacs bug? or a life bug? — tenpn, Jul 01 '14 at 10:59
It is obviously a shortcoming of the color theme, which fails to address Helm faces. — , Jul 01 '14 at 11:36

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '15 at 07:43

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When I first tried the solarized theme, I had a similar problem with helm menus as shown above. The highlighting on diff and magit were even worse.

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I started to try to fix this myself but I eventually realized that there are at least three different versions of the solarized theme currently in MELPA. The one called solarized-theme is the one you want. The helm selection bar is very subtle and underlined, like below.

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answered Mar 25 '15 at 07:43

Brian Z

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I came to the same conclusion a few days ago, and have been happy since. Tick for you! – tenpn Mar 25 '15 at 11:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '14 at 08:28

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You can try M-x customize-group RET helm from there you can customize Helm Selection face and other helm faces.

answered Jul 01 '14 at 08:28

Ignacy Moryc

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This is one solution, but the real solution is to add the faces to your theme and send a Pull-request to the maintainer. – event_jr Jul 01 '14 at 12:01
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A specific solution which I use in my emacs.d (for one of the Tomorrow themes): `(set-face-attribute 'helm-selection nil :background "#441100")` – Stuart Hickinbottom Jul 06 '14 at 14:25
Wow. The interactive face editing in Emacs is really impressive and easy to use. – Praxeolitic Mar 05 '15 at 18:10

Helm chooses unreadable highlight colors in solarized-dark

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