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vim		papercolor-theme
	Project
17	Mentions	12
1,293	Stars	2,618
0.3%	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	3.3
12 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Vim Script	Language	Vim Script
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

What color scheme do you use?
40 projects | /r/neovim | 16 Jun 2023
Neovim error after upgrading to 0.9.0
2 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Apr 2023

I have the same issue in dracula.nvim, I followed the advice here https://github.com/dracula/vim/issues/290.
How can I change the theme?
1 project | /r/vim | 20 Oct 2022

Maybe your terminal doesn’t support italic text. Looks similar to this issue https://github.com/dracula/vim/issues/81.
What is the highlight group of the grey bar that appears on the left?
2 projects | /r/neovim | 4 Sep 2022
Trending vim color schemes | vimcolorschemes
2 projects | /r/vim | 3 Apr 2022

I use Dracula because it's available for all my apps (vim, tmux, zsh, firefox, slack) as well as many web sites via Stylus.
It's 2022. Is programming professionally in the terminal worth trying out?
7 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 21 Mar 2022
Whats your favourite colorscheme in Vim/NeoVim?
44 projects | /r/vim | 14 Mar 2022

I use dracula.
vim VS dracula.nvim - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 5 Mar 2022
Does anyone use the Dracula theme?
1 project | /r/vim | 24 Jan 2022

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') " Dracula theme with Vim Plug https://draculatheme.com/vim Plug 'dracula/vim', { 'as': 'dracula' } call plug#end()
what vim theme is your favourite? (and maybe tell us why?)
32 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2021

Dracula, a dark theme

papercolor-theme

Posts with mentions or reviews of papercolor-theme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

What color scheme do you use?
40 projects | /r/neovim | 16 Jun 2023

Another colorful theme that is actually pretty readable is papercolor-theme, although it was written for Vim. I used to use it, I just forgot about it. But it's pretty good.
What's your neovim colorscheme in 2023 ??
18 projects | /r/neovim | 11 Feb 2023

papercolor
What is your favorite colorscheme?
7 projects | /r/linux | 13 Jan 2023
any recommendations for themes that can reduce eye strain?
9 projects | /r/vim | 5 Jan 2023

I use the dark version of this theme: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme
Whats your favourite colorscheme in Vim/NeoVim?
44 projects | /r/vim | 14 Mar 2022

PaperColor. Still the best for me in both, dark and light!
Dracula Theme: a dark theme for 227 different apps
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2021

I used solarized for a long time, but then I got PaperColor [0] recommended by a colleague recently, and after trying it for a bit I liked it so much that I switched to that exclusively.
It was originally made for vim, but there are ports to other tools[1].
[0]: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme
what vim theme is your favourite? (and maybe tell us why?)
32 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Dec 2021

papercolor for light background
"set background=light" improves, as well as ruins themes.
5 projects | /r/vim | 30 Aug 2021

papercolor
Please suggest a bright and beautiful theme ,please also give the url of that theme too
8 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Mar 2021

I like Papercolor. Screenshot which is using my own simple Emacs theme with the Papercolor terminal colors. Don't know if there is an official Emacs theme port.
[i3-gaps] My first rice and glad to be part of this community.
4 projects | /r/unixporn | 26 Dec 2020

For other terminals and text editors here: https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme#-related-projects-based-on-papercolor

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim and papercolor-theme you can also consider the following projects:

plenary.nvim - plenary: full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified. All the lua functions I don't want to write twice.

material.nvim - :trident: Material colorscheme for NeoVim written in Lua with built-in support for native LSP, TreeSitter and many more plugins

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

base16-alacritty - Base16 for Alacritty

vim-context-commentstring - Vim plugin that sets the value of ‘commentstring’ to a different value depending on the region of the file you are in.

vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor

vim-polyglot - A solid language pack for Vim.

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

zet - Zettelkasten Repo. This is where I dump my knowledge as it happens, all my zettels ("slips" or notes) about almost anything and everything. The idea is rather simple really and very powerful. Be warned, however, just because something is here doesn't mean it is accurate or even that I still believe it.

gruvbox.nvim - Lua port of the most famous vim colorscheme

gruvbox-contrib - Ports of the gruvbox colorscheme

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