What color scheme do you use?

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  • gruvbox-material

    Gruvbox with Material Palette

  • Gruvbox Material is a modified version of Gruvbox, the contrast is adjusted to be softer in order to protect developers' eyes. https://github.com/sainnhe/gruvbox-material

  • nvim

    🍨 Soothing pastel theme for (Neo)vim

  • catppuccin

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  • forest-night

    🌲 Comfortable & Pleasant Color Scheme for Vim

  • Surprised I had to scroll down so much to find this reply. everforest is a great theme, customizable and for once, both the dark and light versions are really usable and high quality. I love it.

  • vim-colors-off

    A no-color scheme for vim

  • onenord.nvim

    πŸ”οΈ A Neovim theme that combines the Nord and Atom One Dark color palettes for a more vibrant programming experience.

  • nvim

    Discontinued Soho vibes for Neovim [Moved to: https://github.com/rose-pine/neovim] (by rose-pine)

  • nightly.nvim

    A customized theme for Neovim, based on the Everblush color scheme.

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  • gruvbox

    Retro groove color scheme for Vim

  • Gruvbox Material is a modified version of Gruvbox, the contrast is adjusted to be softer in order to protect developers' eyes. https://github.com/sainnhe/gruvbox-material

  • nightfox.nvim

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

  • Dawnfox variant of nightfox during in light mode

  • tokyonight.nvim

    πŸ™ 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.

  • Tokyonight in dark mode

  • solarized.nvim

    Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. Solarized port for Neovim (by maxmx03)

  • The best solarized theme out there: https://github.com/maxmx03/solarized.nvim

  • base46

    NvChad's base46 theme plugin with caching ( Total re-write )

  • arctic.nvim

    Neovim color schemes ported from VSCode Dark+ and Dark Modern with Treesitter and semantic token highlighting

  • arctic.nvim

  • material.nvim

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

  • https://github.com/marko-cerovac/material.nvim with my own tweaks. It's written to be customized.

  • nord.nvim

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

  • kanagawa.nvim

    NeoVim dark colorscheme inspired by the colors of the famous painting by Katsushika Hokusai.

  • one_monokai.nvim

    One Monokai for Neovim

  • zenbones.nvim

    πŸͺ¨ A collection of contrast-based Vim/Neovim colorschemes

  • I use Seoulbines from https://github.com/mcchrish/zenbones.nvim I barely see it mentioned, but I love it

  • 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

  • vim

    An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Vim theme. (by nordtheme)

  • Nord.

  • midnight.nvim

    :crescent_moon: A modern black neovim theme written in Lua, with comfortable color contrast for a pleasant visual experience, with LSP and treesitter support

  • jellybeans.vim

    A colorful, dark color scheme for Vim.

  • Y'all sleepin' on Jellybeans

  • bluloco.nvim

    bluloco theme port for neovim

  • After using many color schemes, Finally ended up here. Bluloco

  • mellifluous.nvim

    Pleasant and productive colorscheme for Neovim

  • mellifluous dark with the default color set (my own)

  • sonokai

    High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro

  • sainnhe/sonokai - 𝐀𝐭π₯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐒𝐬 variant.

  • neovim-ayu

    Ayu theme for Neovim.

  • I use ayu-mirage - really like it.

  • neovim

    Soho vibes for Neovim (by rose-pine)

  • I can't get over RosΓ© Pine

  • alabaster.nvim

    Neovim port of tonsky's alabaster for Sublime Text. Use https://sr.ht/~p00f/alabaster.nvim instead

  • There's alabaster.nvim, which only has four color classes, and everything else is black text on white background, or (in the dark version) white text on black background, so it's very readable.

  • github-nvim-theme

    Github's Neovim themes

  • The only light themes I've been able to find with sufficient readability contrast (for me) that are more colorful than that are the light high-contrast version of github-nvim-theme, and Tempus Totus from tempus-themes. I'm sure there exist others, though.

  • 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

  • The only light themes I've been able to find with sufficient readability contrast (for me) that are more colorful than that are the light high-contrast version of github-nvim-theme, and Tempus Totus from tempus-themes. I'm sure there exist others, though.

  • Mies.vim

    Bauhaus monochrome Vim colorscheme. https://www.miessociety.org/mies-works

  • You can always try one of those minimal black-and-white themes with only greyed comments and cursor; I think I like Mies.vim the best for that.

  • gruber-darker.nvim

    Neovim Lua port of gruber-darker-theme

  • I use gruber-darker.

  • vim

    πŸ§›πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Dark theme for Vim (by dracula)

  • noctis.nvim

    Neovim port of noctis family of themes (https://github.com/liviuschera/noctis) (by talha-akram)

  • space-nvim

  • A custom version of space-nvim

  • papercolor-theme

    :art: Light & Dark Vim color schemes inspired by Google's Material Design

  • 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.

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