hi logic, can you provide a screenshot here so that people can see how it looks like. I can link this issue from the README ...

Sure, no problem. Here are the default colors:

http://k.min.us/jX7u2.png

And here they are in a Solarized-esque version:

http://k.min.us/jT8h4.png

(Gallery link.)

Thanks, I've added a note to this issue ...

There is also another way.
You can install coreutils from homebrew and use that without replacing the OS X tools. Since they are installed with 'g' as the prefix
in your .bashrc, .profile or .bash_profile add this line
"
# Load GNU aliases
source /usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.12/aliases
"
and alias ls to GNUs alias
"
alias ls='gls --color=auto'
"
and of course add the aliases to coreutils before the ls alias
"
# Load GNU aliases
source /usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.12/aliases
"

coreutils can also be installed from the fink and MacPorts repositories (older alternatives to homebrew). Choose one and stick with it; don't mix them!

@teoljungberg is "aliases" meant to be a directory or file (8.23_1 has no such file/directory)? what should be done after adding these lines to .bashrc/.bash_profile to make this work?

@zevav It was when I wrote up that guideline, but after looking into it now I can see that it's not a directory. If you use homebrew as I used, and if you have /usr/local/bin in your path you have all of these in your PATH already. You can just alias ls to gls

If you install GNU coreutils with homebrew, the eval `dircolors /path/to/dircolorsdb` command from the documentation will need to be changed to eval `gdircolors /path/to/dircolorsdb` .

I'd like to share my LSCOLORS which seems slightly closer to dircolors.ansi-dark, for those of you who use the actual Solarized palette in your terminal.

LSCOLORS=exfxfeaeBxxehehbadacea

Because the original screenshots disappeared I made some myself:

Comparison

With the OP's value:

With the value I shared:
(note the color of regular directories, directory777, and absence of boldness for non-executables)

On Linux with dircolors.ansi-dark:

This worked for me:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282185/how-do-i-get-different-colors-for-directories-etc-in-iterm2

Any chance there is a more recent LSCOLORS example that matches the ones in this repository? For example, the symbolic link in this repo's discolors example is cyan (light blue), the LSCOLORS in this thread and screenshots show it as magenta (bright purple).