diff --git a/vimrc.symlink b/vimrc.symlink
index c01439f..ca6e935 100644
--- a/vimrc.symlink
+++ b/vimrc.symlink
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Plug 'tpope/vim-ragtag'
 Plug 'surround.vim'
 Plug 'tpope/vim-repeat'
 Plug 'vim-syntastic/syntastic'
+Plug 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized'
 
 " html / templates
 Plug 'mattn/emmet-vim', { 'for': ['html', 'php', 'gohtmltmpl'] } " emmet support for vim - easily create markdup wth CSS-like syntax