ayu-vim VS photon.vim

Compare ayu-vim vs photon.vim and see what are their differences.

ayu-vim

Modern theme for modern VIMs (by Luxed)

photon.vim

A pair of Vim colour schemes with minimal syntax highlighting. (by axvr)
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ayu-vim photon.vim
4 3
122 144
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5.9 4.0
4 days ago over 2 years ago
Vim Script Ruby
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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ayu-vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of ayu-vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-01.
  • Help converting ayu-vim's functions and autocmds to Lua
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Mar 2023
    Yesterday I started moving my config from vimscript to lua. I'm using ayu-vim (and loading it with lazy.nvim, if that matters), and on the Github page it lists a combination of a function and an autocmd to override some theme colors.
  • Light mode color scheme recs?
    12 projects | /r/vim | 23 Sep 2022
  • Proposal for lua colorscheme standardization
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Sep 2021
    I like your idea so much that I'm gonna look into implementing it in the ayu branch I currently maintain (https://github.com/Luxed/ayu-vim). I'm not a fan of it for some reason, but I agree with what it brings. I could argue that the theme has other options anyway, so you'll most likely need somewhere to put those too. But I'll at least look into it
  • Useful Vim Plugins You Haven't Heard Of
    7 projects | /r/vim | 25 Feb 2021
    If you want a maintained version of the ayu theme, go here: https://github.com/Luxed/ayu-vim

photon.vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of photon.vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ayu-vim and photon.vim you can also consider the following projects:

gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim

vim-monokai-pro - Monokai Pro color scheme for Vim / Neovim

base16-vim - Base16 for Vim

nightfox.nvim - 🦊A highly customizable theme for vim and neovim with support for lsp, treesitter and a variety of plugins.

base16-vim - base16-vim refreshes and commits new themes weekly automatically and has a documented build process.

tagrity - Automatically regenerate your tags on file changes https://rubygems.org/gems/tagrity

emacs-doom-themes - A megapack of themes for GNU Emacs. [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/themes]

Configuration-files - Versioned safebox of conf files for dev environment

gruvbox-material - Gruvbox with Material Palette

themes - A megapack of themes for GNU Emacs.

nvim - 🍨 Soothing pastel theme for (Neo)vim