vim-solarized8 VS nerd-fonts

I use https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8. Light mode for the win. I only turn on dark mode when it's ... dark, shocking.

You need a theme that supports true colors (by defining guifg guibg attributes for each syntax item). I use this one https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8.

Solarized obviously https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8

" NEOVIDE CONFIG let g:neovide_refresh_rate=60 let g:neovide_transparency=0.9 let g:neovide_remember_window_size=v:true let g:neovide_cursor_trail_length=1 let g:neovide_cursor_animation_length=0.05 " PLUGIN call plug#begin('~/.local/share/nvim/plugged') Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline' Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes' Plug 'https://github.com/base16-project/base16-vim' Plug 'https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8' Plug 'https://github.com/iCyMind/NeoSolarized' Plug 'https://github.com/flrnprz/plastic.vim' Plug 'https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox' call plug#end() " GENERAL? cd $HOME/Documents set clipboard+=unnamed,unnamedplus set mouse=a set relativenumber filetype on filetype plugin on filetype indent on " GUI NATIVE colorscheme base16-atelier-seaside set background=dark set noshowmode set guifont=Cascadia\ Mono:h10 " AIRLINE "AirlineTheme base16_atelier_seaside let g:airline_theme='base16_atelier_seaside' let g:airline_solarized_bg='dark'

If PuTTY supports truecolor, try some tests from this https://github.com/termstandard/colors, next question is which solarized plugin are you using? It matters, because they have different options you can tweak. By far the easiest in terms of compatibility is https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8

I changed from neosolarized to solarized8 for a similar reason.

https://github.com/jsit/toast.vim at daylight and https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8 at night. Of course, i made some little adjusts for my necessary. They are the only ones that my eyes feel comfortable when working constantly for a long time :)))

Trying to get the fallback version of this colorscheme https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8

Also coming from a practical point of view, I am using the Solarized Dark theme, specifically the high-contrast version here: https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8 It is relatively easy on the eyes, and doesn't look too awful.

Use any nerd fonts

SourceCodePro: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/SourceCodePro

Hot off the press: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/tag/v3.1.0

It's a bit expensive, and I can understand if someone can't or doesn't want to spend money on it. I would recommend to check out the free fonts 'JetBains Mono' & 'Hack' to these people.

Some people have already mentioned here that Berkeley Mono is not available as Nerd Font. I would like to briefly point out that Nerd Fonts provides a font patcher tool (https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#font-patcher).

I'm using Neovim v0.9.1 on Ubuntu 23.04 with NvChad. I've also installed the JetBrainsMono font, as NvChad requires a Nerd Font, but nothing besides that and I haven't edited any settings or nvim files and I haven't installed any additional plugins.

There are a lot of code fonts on HN today. Rather than make a new post I will talk about some of my favorite that are a little less common. None of these are free I don't think.

Cartograph CF - The one I've been using for code for years. Very readable, almost "comic mono"-like choices of some of the lower case glyphs but in a good way. All the character is in the italic which you will either love or hate.

Quadraat sans mono - The entire quadraat family is a collection of masterpieces imo, but are generally too distinctive to be appropriate for most public-facing work. But it's your computer so who cares. I use the mono sans one for my terminal. The lowercase f seems so out of place there but you learn to love it.

Alegreya sans - Not a mono font, but it almost is so if you've ever flirted with proportional fonts for code this is a fun one to try. There is a lot of careful line width variation that gives a lot of the appearance and readability advantages of serifs but keeps most of the visual coherence of sans.

I like all of these because they look feel more like normal fonts rather than code fonts. They have careful variation that adds character and improves readability for me. I've switched to an almost-no-color code theme that uses font weight instead, and the details like this become more important that way.

And then only kind of related but if you want to use unusual fonts in your terminal but you have a complex prompt setup, install font forge and learn to use something like https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-pat... to patch in the extra characters. This can also solve your "I love this font but want a dotted zero" type problems as well. Small skill investment for a small return over a long period of time. You'll always be using fonts.

It is FiraCode Nerd Font Mono:size=16. You can find it here. On arch linux you can just install the nerd-fonts and it's included there.