That is simply not true. I can recommend Kai Light, Espresso Light, XCode Classic Light, Horizon Light off the top of my head.

Thank you for the recommendations. I will check them out. To be fair, it's been a couple years since I last looked, and at that time it wasn't that there were _no_ other light themes, but there were very few and they were not nearly as good as Solarized, which I guess is a personal preference. But, I really do appreciate the recommendations, and look forward to trying some new colors.

Default gruvbox light's background is a bit too dark, but light+hard has been my goto for the last 6 years or so.

. I can probably give you more if you don't like the ones I mentioned but the chance of a taste overlap are pretty slim then I guess.

I use Alabaster[1]. Contrary to most themes, it is quite minimalistic and it emphasises comments instead of de-emphasising them. I like the minimalism, because it lets me focus, instead of marking every single thing on the screen as a different colour of “important” making my head spin.

[1]: <https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster>

One of my favorite themes has a light grey for everything except strings (light blue) and comments (white). Comments are super important, they should stand out.

I use printer mode (gray scale). I mean; originally just to irritate my boss during code review, but then it grew on me. I wish there was a good black&white underline/italic/bold theme a la Algol 68.

I use atom light. I find it the best light theme so far.

Adding to the other suggestions: I much prefer Leuven and Modus Operandi over Solarized Light.