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:

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

Answer 1

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.

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.

Answer 2

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