Solarized Web — Eye-Friendly Theme for Every Site

About

Tired of staring at harsh white screens all day? Solarized Web replaces the blinding whites and cold grays on your favorite websites with the warm, scientifically-designed Solarized Light palette — reducing eye strain without sacrificing readability.

WORKS EVERYWHERE

The extension ships with tuned support for a curated set of popular sites across search, email, social, media, productivity, and developer tools. For anything not on the built-in list, open the popup, switch to the Custom tab, and type any domain — the theme is applied instantly.

HOW IT WORKS

Two-layer approach for reliable, complete theming:

1. CSS Variable Overrides — Each site's design system (GitHub Primer, Gmail Material 3, Reddit RPL, etc.) is precisely remapped to Solarized colors. Instant theming, no flash of unstyled content.

2. DOM-Based Color Rewriter — A generic engine walks every element on the page and remaps hardcoded neutral colors (whites, grays, blacks) to Solarized equivalents. This catches everything that CSS variables miss — inline styles, dynamically loaded CSS, shadow DOM fallbacks.

Semantic colors are preserved: errors stay red, success stays green, links stay blue. Only neutral/achromatic colors are remapped.

FEATURES

- Warm, eye-friendly Solarized Light palette by Ethan Schoonover
- Per-site toggle — enable or disable theming on each site individually
- Custom site support — add any website
- Preserves semantic colors (red for errors, green for success, blue for links)
- Lightweight — no frameworks, no build tools, pure CSS + vanilla JS
- Privacy-first — zero data collection, no analytics, no tracking
- Syncs preferences across your Chrome devices

ABOUT SOLARIZED

Solarized is a precision color palette designed by Ethan Schoonover for optimal readability and reduced eye strain. It uses carefully chosen color relationships based on the CIELAB color space, providing both a warm background tone and clear, comfortable text contrast. Used by millions of developers in terminal and editor themes, now available across the entire web.

PERMISSIONS

- Storage: saves your per-site on/off preferences (synced via Chrome)
- Scripting: injects CSS stylesheets to apply the theme
- Host access: required for each supported site (no access to other sites)
- No data is collected, transmitted, or shared. Ever.