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

1. forest-night

   1 33 3,317 7.6 Vim Script

   🌲 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".)

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. mini.nvim

   2 152 7,214 9.8 Lua

   Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.8 and higher) experience with minimal effort

   

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

4. awesome-neovim

   3 131 17,901 9.4

   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):

5. seoul256.vim

   4 6 1,678 2.0 Vim Script

   :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.

6. gruvbox-material

   5 51 2,204 7.5 Vim Script

   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

7. gruvbox.nvim

   6 46 2,190 8.2 Lua

   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

8. onedark.nvim

   7 34 1,738 4.4 Lua

   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

9. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

10. material.nvim

    8 26 1,038 5.9 Lua

    :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

11. nord.nvim

    9 18 908 2.3 Lua

    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

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