Nord – An Arctic, north-bluish color palette

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  • iceberg.vim

    :antarctica: Bluish color scheme for Vim and Neovim

  • I used nord for a long while, definitely one of my favourite themes. Later I found iceberg[0] to be a better alternative with similar feel.

    [0]: https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim

  • nord

    An arctic, north-bluish color palette.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • hyper-term-theme

    HyperTerm inspired visual studio code theme with vivid syntaxcolors and a pitch black UI. Drools on the floor..

  • There's almost no contrast, it's quite hard to read. Personally on my OLED I like black background themes, such as Hyper Term Black.

    https://github.com/HasseNasse/hyper-term-theme

  • obsidian_nord

    A nord theme for Obsidian

  • There is a nice Nord theme for Obsidian. The Minimal theme has one as well but seems to use fewer colours than Obsidian_Nord.

    https://github.com/insanum/obsidian_nord

  • nightfox.nvim

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

  • I love Nord theme but with a touch of color

    https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim#nordfox

  • vim

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

  • Both Vim [1] and Emacs[2] are on the ports page [0]. In Emacs it's as easy to install as `package-install nord-theme` and then `load-theme nord`. I will note that I tried it out in Emacs running in Windows Terminal and it looks terrible, completely different from the demo and almost unusable - I quickly went back to one of the default themes, tango-dark. This is probably only going to work in the GUI version.

    [0] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

    [1] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim

    [2] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/emacs

  • emacs

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

  • Both Vim [1] and Emacs[2] are on the ports page [0]. In Emacs it's as easy to install as `package-install nord-theme` and then `load-theme nord`. I will note that I tried it out in Emacs running in Windows Terminal and it looks terrible, completely different from the demo and almost unusable - I quickly went back to one of the default themes, tango-dark. This is probably only going to work in the GUI version.

    [0] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports

    [1] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim

    [2] https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/emacs

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  • melange-nvim

    🗡️ Warm color scheme for Neovim and beyond

  • I was on gruvbox dark for a while but recently moved to melange (https://github.com/savq/melange) - I find the colors are a bit more toned down and pleasant to look at.

  • tokyonight-vim

    Discontinued [ARCHIVED : Lack of time to maintain] A clean, dark vim colorscheme that celebrates the lights of downtown Tokyo at night, based on a VSCode theme by @enkia with the same name

  • base16-universal-manager

    A universal manager to set base16 themes for any supported application

  • I agree, my first impression was confusion over why they are making such a big deal out of a simple color palette.

    I could be wrong, but it looks like they modified a website template which was originally meant for advertising a service or product, which could explain why it feels a bit strange and overwrought.

    Also, I feel like [Base16](https://github.com/chriskempson/base16) is a better approach to the problem, by providing a framework rather than a single palette.

    Regarding Discord, considering that everybody and their grandmother has a discord these days, I suppose having one for a color theme is not so surprising. There used to be IRC channels for everything, after all. It's a shame that Discord has gained so much traction, being a proprietary walled garden. That's a topic for another day, though.

  • everforest-jetbrains

    🌲 Everforest theme for JetBrains

  • Check out this port (by me) of Everforest theme for JetBrains IDEs https://github.com/francma/everforest-jetbrains

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