What color scheme do you use?

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  1. 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

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. nvim

    🍨 Soothing pastel theme for (Neo)vim

    catppuccin

  4. 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.

  5. vim-colors-off

    A no-color scheme for vim

  6. onenord.nvim

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

  7. nvim

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

  8. nightly.nvim

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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. base46

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

  14. arctic.nvim

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

    arctic.nvim

  15. 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.

  16. nord.nvim

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

  17. kanagawa.nvim

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

  18. one_monokai.nvim

    One Monokai for Neovim

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. vim

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

    Nord.

  22. 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

  23. jellybeans.vim

    A colorful, dark color scheme for Vim.

    Y'all sleepin' on Jellybeans

  24. bluloco.nvim

    bluloco theme port for neovim

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

  25. mellifluous.nvim

    Pleasant and productive colorscheme for Neovim

    mellifluous dark with the default color set (my own)

  26. sonokai

    High Contrast & Vivid Color Scheme based on Monokai Pro

    sainnhe/sonokai - 𝐀𝐭π₯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐒𝐬 variant.

  27. neovim-ayu

    Ayu theme for Neovim.

    I use ayu-mirage - really like it.

  28. neovim

    Soho vibes for Neovim (by rose-pine)

    I can't get over RosΓ© Pine

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  33. gruber-darker.nvim

    Neovim Lua port of gruber-darker-theme

    I use gruber-darker.

  34. vim

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

  35. noctis.nvim

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

  36. space-nvim

    A custom version of space-nvim

  37. 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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