Have you ever wondered how "average popular Neovim color scheme" looks like? I have. Here is the result (details in comments):

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/neovim

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  • forest-night

    🌲 Comfortable & Pleasant Color Scheme for Vim

    (Full disclosure: initially I wanted to go with "top 5 Neovim color schemes" which would have included sainnhe/everforest as fifth one. But although its colors are sooooooo nice, it is quite different in terms of which attributes it defines for certain highlight groups. Including it instead of 'projekt0n/github-nvim-theme' resulted in not very coherent output. So in the end it was decided to take "top 5 Lua color schemes".)

  • mini.nvim

    Library of 30+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.7 and higher) experience with minimal effort

    Thankfully, the recent release of 'mini.colors' makes this task much more manageable.

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  • awesome-neovim

    Collections of awesome neovim plugins.

    For reference color schemes I decided to go through awesome-neovim and pick top 5 Lua implemented color schemes with most stars. Here is the final list (as of 2023-04-20):

  • seoul256.vim

    :deciduous_tree: Low-contrast Vim color scheme based on Seoul Colors

    Thank you and although I haven't used any of these but I've played with various ayu, paper, gruvbox-material ones and it's awesome to test out various ones as my mood changes. My current favorite is Seoul256.

  • gruvbox-material

    Gruvbox with Material Palette

    There are also non-purple-ish color schemes coming right after top 5: - sainnhe/everforest - sainnhe/gruvbox-material and ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim - navarasu/onedark.nvim - marko-cerovac/material.nvim (except one variation) - shaunsingh/nord.nvim

  • gruvbox.nvim

    Lua port of the most famous vim colorscheme

    There are also non-purple-ish color schemes coming right after top 5: - sainnhe/everforest - sainnhe/gruvbox-material and ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim - navarasu/onedark.nvim - marko-cerovac/material.nvim (except one variation) - shaunsingh/nord.nvim

  • onedark.nvim

    One dark and light colorscheme for neovim >= 0.5.0 written in lua based on Atom's One Dark and Light theme. Additionally, it comes with 5 color variant styles

    There are also non-purple-ish color schemes coming right after top 5: - sainnhe/everforest - sainnhe/gruvbox-material and ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim - navarasu/onedark.nvim - marko-cerovac/material.nvim (except one variation) - shaunsingh/nord.nvim

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  • material.nvim

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

    There are also non-purple-ish color schemes coming right after top 5: - sainnhe/everforest - sainnhe/gruvbox-material and ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim - navarasu/onedark.nvim - marko-cerovac/material.nvim (except one variation) - shaunsingh/nord.nvim

  • nord.nvim

    Neovim theme based off of the Nord Color Palette, written in lua with tree sitter support

    There are also non-purple-ish color schemes coming right after top 5: - sainnhe/everforest - sainnhe/gruvbox-material and ellisonleao/gruvbox.nvim - navarasu/onedark.nvim - marko-cerovac/material.nvim (except one variation) - shaunsingh/nord.nvim

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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