Light background for terminals

Terminals with light background aren't cool. But I feel like my eyes suffer a bit less if the text is black on white. After some hours of tweaking, I came out with this scheme, inspired by http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

 solarized/mixed

Add this to your .Xdefaults

! solarized/mixed
#define S_base03        #002b36
#define S_base02        #073642
#define S_base01        #586e75
#define S_base00        #657b83
#define S_base0         #839496
#define S_base1         #93a1a1
#define S_base2         #eee8d5
#define S_base3         #fdf6e3
#define S_yellow        #b58900
#define S_orange        #cb4b16
#define S_red           #d30102
#define S_magenta       #dc322f
#define S_violet        #6c71c4
#define S_blue          #268bd2
#define S_cyan          #2aa198
#define S_green         #859900

! S_base2 is also good
*background: S_base3
*foreground: S_base03

*fading:                10
*fadeColor:             S_base2
*cursorColor:           S_base01
*pointerColorBackground:S_base1
*pointerColorForeground:S_base01


! black dark/light
*color0:  S_base03
*color8:  S_base02
! red dark/light
*color1:  S_red
*color9:  S_orange
! green dark/light
*color2:  rgb:00/87/3a
*color10: S_green
! yellow dark/light
*color3:  rgb:a9/53/0a
*color11: S_yellow
! blue dark/light
*color4:  rgb:23/1b/b8
*color12: S_blue
! magenta dark/light
*color5:  S_violet
*color13: S_magenta
! cyan dark/light
*color6:  rgb:41/91/89
*color14: S_cyan
! white dark/light
*color7:  S_base2
*color15: S_base3

Or the darker variant (colors reversed):

! solarized/mixed
#define S_base03        #002b36
#define S_base02        #073642
#define S_base01        #586e75
#define S_base00        #657b83
#define S_base0         #839496
#define S_base1         #93a1a1
#define S_base2         #eee8d5
#define S_base3         #fdf6e3
#define S_yellow        #b58900
#define S_orange        #cb4b16
#define S_red           #d30102
#define S_magenta       #dc322f
#define S_violet        #6c71c4
#define S_blue          #268bd2
#define S_cyan          #2aa198
#define S_green         #859900

! S_base2 is also good
*background: S_base3
*foreground: S_base03

*fading:                10
*fadeColor:             S_base2
*cursorColor:           S_base01
*pointerColorBackground:S_base1
*pointerColorForeground:S_base01

! black dark/light
*color0:  S_base03
*color8:  S_base02
! red dark/light
*color1:  S_orange
*color9:  S_red
! green dark/light
*color2:  S_green
*color10: rgb:00/87/3a
! yellow dark/light
*color3:  S_yellow
*color11: rgb:a9/53/0a
! blue dark/light
*color4:  S_blue
*color12: rgb:23/1b/b8
! magenta dark/light
*color5:  S_magenta
*color13: S_violet
! cyan dark/light
*color6:  S_cyan
*color14: rgb:41/91/89
! white dark/light
*color7:  S_base3
*color15: S_base2