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morhetz/gruvbox has 15,831 GitHub stars and 1,122 forks. GitHot measured +2 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-06 09:40 UTC. Last push 2026-09-18.

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Retro groove color scheme for Vim

What you can do

  • Lots of style-customization options (contrast, color invertion, italics usage etc.)
  • Extended filetype highlighting: Html, Xml, Vim, Clojure, C, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PureScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Objective-C, Go, Lua, MoonScript, Java, Markdown, Haskell, Elixir
  • Supported plugins: EasyMotion, vim-sneak, Indent Guides, indentLine, Rainbow Parentheses, Airline, Lightline, GitGutter, Signify, ShowMarks, Signature, Syntastic, Ale, CtrlP, Startify, NERDTree, Dirvish

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README.md

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[!NOTE] Long time no see, folks. morhetz here.
I'm building a desktop database client rn.
If you're interested in early access once it's ready, drop me a line at [email protected].

gruvbox is heavily inspired by badwolf, jellybeans and solarized.

Designed as a bright theme with pastel 'retro groove' colors and light/dark mode switching in the way of solarized. The main focus when developing gruvbox is to keep colors easily distinguishable, contrast enough and still pleasant for the eyes.

Attention

  1. Read this first
  2. Typeface from gallery is Fantasque Sans Mono
  3. Typeface from screenshots below is Fira Mono

Screenshots

Refer Gallery for more syntax-specific screenshots.

Dark mode

Screenshot Dark

Light mode

Screenshot Light

Airline theme

Screenshot Airline

Palette

Dark mode

Palette Dark

Light mode

Palette Light

Contrast options

Refer wiki section for contrast configuration and other options.

Contrast Options

Documentation

Please check wiki for installation details, terminal-specific setup, troubleshooting, configuration options and others.

Features

Contributions

See gruvbox-contrib repo for contributions, ports and extras.

ToDo

  • Filetype syntax highlighting (R, TeX, Swift, Erlang)
  • Plugin support (Tagbar, VimPlug)

Self-Promotion

If you like gruvbox follow the repository on GitHub and vote for it on vim.org.

License

MIT/X11

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