onedarker.nvim vs kat.nvim

onedarker.nvim

Onedark inspired colorscheme written in lua. (by LunarVim)

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kat.nvim

NeoVim specifc port of kat.vim, a warm blue theme, written in Fennel with Aniseed (by katawful)

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onedarker.nvim		kat.nvim
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3	Mentions	17
89	Stars	127
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
6 months ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Lua	Language	Lua
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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onedarker.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of onedarker.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.

Any good color scheme which is made with colorgen-nvim? so I could fork it and change colors.
2 projects | /r/neovim | 2 Oct 2022

This is the one I've put the most work into: https://github.com/LunarVim/onedarker.nvim/blob/master/onedarker.toml
how to change intersection symbol of vertical line and horizontal line
2 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Jul 2022

btw I have a newer version here: https://github.com/LunarVim/onedarker.nvim
The best Neovim color scheme with tree sitter and LSP support.
32 projects | /r/neovim | 13 Feb 2022

Also on onedark, but https://github.com/LunarVim/onedarker.nvim implementation.

kat.nvim

Posts with mentions or reviews of kat.nvim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-15.

Colorscheme standards in nvim?
4 projects | /r/neovim | 15 Mar 2023

kat.nvim
Colorschemes that use treesitter and are 256-color?
4 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Mar 2023

Is 256 color required? My colorscheme and colorscheme generator supports 16 color for supported terminals. 256 color colorschemes are tricky due to how much >16 colors are used for other things
Kreative, a simple GUI colorscheme generator, has reached version 1.0
2 projects | /r/neovim | 10 Dec 2022

This plugin has been around for a while, being based on my proper colorscheme kat.nvim. But it was based on a much older code base so there are massive overhauls to the functionality of this plugin:
Colorscheme kat.nvim now only supports 0.8, new nvim-treesitter groups have been enforced
1 project | /r/neovim | 22 Oct 2022

New release - 3.0 "Stupendous Burmese"
kat.nvim Release "Exuberant Cornish Rex" now available - Major speed and quality of life improvements, Neovim 0.6 support fully removed
3 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Oct 2022

Release - use tag '2.0'
catppuccin.nvim now startup in 1ms
4 projects | /r/neovim | 6 Oct 2022

Tested quickly with my current refactor branch of kat.nvim
[help] How to write nvim plugins with Fennel?
5 projects | /r/neovim | 23 Sep 2022

The easiest would be to use aniseed: https://github.com/Olical/aniseed, it has a bootstrap script that downloads all the needed dependencies: https://github.com/Olical/aniseed, it also adds some syntax niceties and testing support. Here's an example of a plugin: https://github.com/katawful/kat.nvim
My colorscheme kat.nvim has finally reached version 1.0 - named Rotund Donskoy
1 project | /r/neovim | 9 Sep 2022

kat.nvim version 1.0 - Rotund Donskoy
Which is your favorite light theme?
17 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Aug 2022

kat.nvim light
Introducing oxocarbon.nvim: Neovim colorscheme written in Rust, inspired by IBM Carbon.
4 projects | /r/neovim | 30 Jul 2022

A different case is fennel color schemes (e.g. https://github.com/katawful/kat.nvim), in which he takes the fennel files, compiles it to lua, and ships that to the user.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing onedarker.nvim and kat.nvim you can also consider the following projects:

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

github-nvim-theme - Github's Neovim themes

onedarkpro.nvim - 🎨 Atom's iconic One Dark theme. Cacheable, fully customisable, Tree-sitter and LSP semantic token support. Comes with variants

vim-gruvbox8 - A simplified and optimized Gruvbox colorscheme for Vim

vim-enfocado - How themes should be.

newpaper.nvim - 🎨 Newpaper colorscheme for NeoVim written in Lua with built-in support for native LSP, TreeSitter and many more plugins

tokyonight.nvim - 🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.

tempus-themes - [Mirror] Tempus is a collection of themes for Vim, text editors, and terminal emulators that are compliant at the very least with the WCAG AA accessibility standard for colour contrast

starry.nvim - A pack of modern nvim color schemes: material, moonlight, Dracula (blood), Monokai, Mariana, Emerald, earlysummer, middlenight_blue... Fully support Treesitter, LSP and a variety of plugins.

dotfiles-nvim - Dotfiles for neovim

nebulous.nvim - Minimalist Collection of Colorschemes for Neovim Written in Lua

fennel-repl.nvim - A Fennel REPL that runs in Neovim