rafi/awesome-vim-colorschemes
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Collection of awesome color schemes for Neo/vim, merged for quick use.
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OriginalAwesome Vim Color Schemes
Collection of awesome color schemes for Vim, merged for quick use.
Installation
Use your favorite package-manager to install, and enjoy!
Color Schemes
| Scheme | Description | Terminal | GUI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 256noir | Dark minimal colors, to avoid distraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| abstract | Dark theme based on Abstract app | ✓ | ✓ |
| afterglow | Adaptation from Sublime Text | ✓ | ✓ |
| alduin | Dark rustic colors | ✓ | ✓ |
| anderson | Dark vim colorscheme based on colors from Wes Anderson films | ✓ | ✓ |
| angr | Pleasant, mild, dark theme | ✓ | ✓ |
| ayu-vim | Simple, bright and elegant theme | ✓ | |
| Apprentice | Dark, low-contrast colorscheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| Archery | Vim colorscheme inspired by Arch Linux colors | ✓ | ✓ |
| Atom | Designed to be very readable in both light and dark environments | ✓ | |
| carbonized | Inspired by the Carbon keycap set | ✓ (16) | ✓ |
| challenger-deep | FlatColor colorscheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| deep-space | Intergalactic friendly color scheme based off Hybrid | ✓ | ✓ |
| deus | For the late night coder | ✓ | ✓ |
| dogrun | Dark purple | ✓ | ✓ |
| flattened | Solarized, without the bullshit | ✓ (16) | ✓ |
| focuspoint | Maintain color coordination and important keyword focus | ✓ | |
| fogbell | Minimal grey monotone with 3 variants | ✓ | ✓ |
| github | Based on Github's syntax highlighting | ✓ | ✓ |
| gotham | Very dark vim colorscheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| gruvbox | Retro groove color scheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| happy hacking | Fairly small set of colors instead of throwing rainbows at your face | ✓ | ✓ |
| Iceberg | Dark blue color scheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| papercolor | Light and Dark color schemes inspired by Google's Material Design | ✓ | ✓ |
| parsec | Color scheme for people tired of solarized | ✓ (16) | ✓ |
| scheakur | A light/dark colorscheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| hybrid | A dark colour scheme for Vim and gVim | ✓ | ✓ |
| hybrid-material | Material color scheme based on w0ng/vim-hybrid | ✓ | ✓ |
| jellybeans | Colorful, dark color scheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| lightning | Light vim colorscheme based on Apprentice | ✓ | ✓ |
| lucid | Vivid highlights and friendly, clear colors | ✓ | |
| lucius | Lucius color scheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| materialbox | Light and dark material palette inspired based on Gruvbox | ✓ | |
| meta5 | Dark colorscheme, inspired by Tron | ✓ | ✓ |
| minimalist | Darker version of material theme inspired by Sublime Text | ✓ | ✓ |
| molokai | Molokai color scheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| molokayo | Very tweaked molokai based theme | ✓ | ✓ |
| mountaineer | A dark and adventurous theme | ✓ | ✓ |
| nord | An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant theme | ✓ (16) | ✓ |
| oceanicnext | Oceanic Next theme | ✓ | ✓ |
| oceanic-material | Material dark colorscheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| one | Adaptation of one-light and one-dark | ✓ | ✓ |
| onedark | Inspired by Atom's One Dark syntax theme | ✓ | ✓ |
| onehalf | Clean, vibrant and pleasing color scheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| orbital | Dark blue base16 theme | ✓ | ✓ |
| paramount | Minimal colorscheme that only puts emphasis on the paramount | ✓ | ✓ |
| pink-moon | Dark pastel theme | ✓ | ✓ |
| purify | Clean & vibrant color schemes for Vim, Terminals... | ✓ | ✓ |
| pyte | Clean, light (nearly white) theme | ✓ | |
| rdark-terminal2 | Modified rdark-terminal to enhance visibility | ✓ | |
| seoul256 | Low-contrast color scheme based on Seoul Colors | ✓ | ✓ |
| sierra | Dark vintage colors | ✓ | ✓ |
| solarized8 | Optimized Solarized colorschemes | ✓ (16) | ✓ |
| sonokai | Vivid and high contrast based on Monokai Pro | ✓ | ✓ |
| space-vim-dark | Dark magenta colors | ✓ | ✓ |
| spacecamp | Colors for the final frontier | ✓ | ✓ |
| sunbather | Minimal pink colorscheme | ✓ | ✓ |
| tender | 24bit colorscheme for Vim | ✓ | ✓ |
| termschool | Based on the "codeschool" theme, with lots of tweaks | ✓ | ✓ |
| twilight256 | Imitates the Twilight theme for TextMate | ✓ | ✓ |
| two-firewatch | A blend between duotone light and firewatch (for atom) | ✓ | ✓ |
| wombat256 | Wombat for 256 color xterms | ✓ | ✓ |
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