I have been intending to use Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) colors for vim for development work for a while now, and finally got around to adding it to my profile on my laptop.  What is nice about the colors is they are meant to be distinguishable in the terminal without using excessive contrast– color is the primary distinguishing element.  It makes writing or reading on a computer easy on the eyes, and so once again vim has become my goto for development work (although I don’t recommend it for everyone…).