Pet peeve, Solarized makes no sense as a terminal color scheme, because it maps brgreen, brblue, bryellow, and brcyan to barely-distinguishable shades of gray. It just doesn't have enough colors in its palette to cover the range of colors that the authors of CLI tools expect your terminal to be able to display.

Also, Solarized's whole trick is that its colors are perceptually uniform in terms of lightness, and I think the results speak for themselves why we don't do this in practice. If you want a yellow that actually looks yellow and not a shade of puke brown, it needs to be brighter than the other colors (especially red, which needs to be darker than the other colors if you don't want it to look pink).

I’ve used solarised-light in my terminal for a few years. I really enjoy the colours, but you’re absolutely right, it is not actually terminal friendly. Many programs just write invisible text.

It also makes the baffling decision to make "bright black" darker than "black." Pretty much every other terminal colorscheme renders brightblack as a dark gray.

It's fine as an editor colorscheme, but nearly unusable as a terminal scheme.

It's not easy on my eyes. It looks washed out with too low contrast.