base16 vs wal.vim

base16

Not a theme, but a framework (by chriskempson)

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wal.vim

🎨 A vim colorscheme for use with wal (by dylanaraps)

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base16		wal.vim
	Project
25	Mentions	5
451	Stars	212
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
6 months ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
	Language	Vim Script
MIT License	License	MIT License

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base16

Posts with mentions or reviews of base16. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.

Which colorscheme has the best features and granular customization (default colors aside)? Or a plugin for building custom color schemes?
7 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Jun 2023

Big fan of the base16 philosophy
Customize color theme in NvChad
2 projects | /r/neovim | 21 May 2023

If anyone struggles with this in the feature, what I was looking for was a list like the one in https://github.com/chriskempson/base16/blob/39fb23df970d4d6190d000271dec260250986012/styling.md.
Colorschemes that use treesitter and are 256-color?
4 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Mar 2023

Correct. It uses main Base16 styling.
Lua function to dump current neovim colorscheme to kitty
1 project | /r/neovim | 29 Jan 2023

Nice. Might be useful for dumping themes for the base16 framework
Dark theme with good coverage
8 projects | /r/swaywm | 28 Dec 2022

Stuff with base16 support is a good place to look. I've had good luck with Gruvbox (dark, hard).
Base16 Color Framework
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2022
I contributed to (mostly) 14 top-rated Neovim color schemes. Here are some observations
9 projects | /r/neovim | 20 Jul 2022

I am not entirely sure what you mean by "universal format for themes", but there I personally love Base16 convention with its recommendation for styling. This is what I ended up (re)implementing for Neovim: mini.base16. It's been around, so most of instruments should have support for this.
Vim Color Schemes
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2022

It’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but base16 is basically that. I use it, and it’s ok!
http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/
Samples of code used for creating themes / color schemes
1 project | /r/accessibility | 8 Feb 2022

I'm talking about themes for terminals, text editors, notifications, [task]bars, etc. For example, these.
n/vim colors are wrong on the console
1 project | /r/tmux | 15 Jan 2022

pick a colourscheme from https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 and apply it to the linux tty as the previous article i linked describes

wal.vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of wal.vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-06.

pywal.nvim: A reimplementation of pywal.vim by dylanaraps totally writted in lua
2 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Jan 2022

Hi! This is my new neovim theme that is a reimplementation of wal.vim but totally writted in lua, with support to termguicolors (it's necesary to make this theme work), pywal.nvim works really simple, it reads a vim file generated by pywal (~/.cache/wal/colors-wal.vim) and then collect all the colors variables in a lua dictionary and generate a new theme with it's variables, it has support for a few lualine plugins:
What's your neovim colorscheme?
54 projects | /r/neovim | 1 Nov 2021
How do I create a custom theme?
3 projects | /r/vim | 25 Sep 2021

You can also create vim colorsheme from image/wallpaper with pywal and wal.vim .
Vim themes that exclusively use the 16 terminal colors?
6 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Aug 2021
What's your favourite Fonts and Themes?
23 projects | /r/vim | 23 Apr 2021

Font: Fantasque Sans Mono Theme: wal.vim, so everything can fit together nicely with the rest of my desktop and wallpaper

What are some alternatives?

When comparing base16 and wal.vim you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-base16.lua - Programmatic lua library for setting base16 themes in Neovim.

pywal.nvim - pywal.nvim is a reimplementation of pywal.vim to support a few lua plugins like nvim-tree, telescope, bufferline, etc

Gogh - Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal also compatible with iTerm on macOS.

base16-nvim - Neovim plugin for building a sync base16 colorscheme. Includes support for Treesitter and LSP highlight groups.

iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

doom-one.nvim - doom-emacs' doom-one Lua port for Neovim

base16-vim - Base16 for Vim

nord - An arctic, north-bluish color palette.

vim-dim - Dim (/dɪm/; a contraction of Default IMproved) is a clone of Vim’s default colorscheme, with some improvements.

macos-terminal-themes - Color schemes for default macOS Terminal.app

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal