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Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by DiabloD3 »

jah wrote: post #4

I'm a huge fan of the base16 color schemes - not for their appearance (though most look great), but for their ease of integration within the shell and vim. Just clone the repos below, drop a few lines in your shellrc/vimrc, then use a single bash command to change the scheme in both. No more mucking with Xresources. https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-vim

I used Base16, and even added a colorscheme generator to the near infinite collection of them that Base16 has.

In the end, rewriting the upper 8 colors to not match the established ANSI color scheme is what broke it for me.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by hahajk »

abledon wrote: post #22

I wish there was a universal 'colorscheme' standard that every text editor (Vim/Emacs/VSCode/Jetbrains/otherIDEs) all plugged into. And you could 'load/save' your settings across different apps etc... each one saving into the same _standardized_ file format. Then a site like this would work with me just 'ctrl-c'/ ctrl-v'ing the colorscheme into _any_ text editor (heck any program) target. (Narrator: They colonized ma…

It’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but base16 is basically that. I use it, and it’s ok! After setting up a program to support base16, you can just type

> base16-manager set nord

to use the nord theme on all programs.

http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by SecondTube »

tempodox wrote: post #55
johncoltrane wrote: post #35

FWIW, modern reworks of the built-in colorschemes are on their way [1]. We plan to add more third-party colorschemes in the future as we streamline the creation and validation process. [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/9795

Nice. I love that the OP has so many themes to pick from but repeatedly trying 3rd-party color schemes over the years only made me realize how many criteria have to be met for a color scheme to actually work for me in practice (apparently I'm very picky when it comes to that). I have yet to find one that beats vim's `default` theme. The only tweak I made is to not use underline for the current line but a slightly dar…

Then trying to get the terminal colour scheme to work with the vim one. Another level of annoyances.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by toastal »

toastal wrote: post #56

Due note that this can only poll for colorschemes on GitHub. It does not poll from alternative Git forges nor does it allow you to manually add your theme. Sites like this are pressuring users that want ho market their themes to use a closed-source platform for open-source code.

Do note, want to I stand by the statement though. This plays into GitHub’s gamification on stars and I don’t think it’s healthy to uphold that nor pretend other platforms, open platforms exist.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by tylerscott »

ykonstant wrote: post #47

I tried very hard to find a satisfying light-themed color scheme for Vim, but I have not had much success so far. Most of them have a grey or white base that I don't care about; I wanted something more pastel or warmer and found solarized to be a bit too intense. I wrote and now use my own colorscheme [0] but I think there is much room for improvement. [0] https://i.redd.it/psmi7s4gcfy51.png

I also struggle to find just the right light theme. I really enjoy the subtle colors in yours. Often I find accents and somtiemes primary color choices to be too intense against a sepia background.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by yeetsfromhellL2 »

After playing around with color schemes for over a decade and never really being satisfied, I made my own palette that is pretty close to the ANSI color scheme, just with more attractive shades that I copied from things like subway systems and public safety stuff (fire trucks and school busses) since so much research goes into colors being clear and unmistakable in varying conditions of weather or cleanliness. Highlight colors are incremental shades of grey. This has worked remarkably well with 99.9% of default app color schemes. Haven't touched my colors in years now.

Edit:

screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ZPWjSKk, since terminal.sexy URL sharing wasn't working so well for me. I'd post a desktop screenshot, but I'm on the road and my laptop's WiFi just stopped working, lol.

Some background: cyan is now safety orange. This is because cyan hurts my eyes on a light background and it can be tricky to distinguish from blue, while orange is pretty easy to distinguish from red. IIRC I picked out the shades of blue and magenta myself because most color design documents I could dig up had blue and purple usage paired with a specific background color (usually white) which didn't carry over very well to a dark background. I find these shades to be distinguishable and flexible enough for just about any background color.

The greyscale highlights are generally for tmux and nvim status line background colors, which I use to distinguish cells instead of seperator glyphs.

  [colors]

  foreground = #383838
  foreground_bold = #383838
  cursor = #383837
  background = #aaaaaa

  #black (is black)
  color0 = #000000

  #red (fire engine red)
  color1 = #ce2029

  #green (London underground green)
  color2 = #007d32

  #yellow (school bus yellow)
  color3 = #ffd800

  #blue (Persian blue)
  color4 = #1c39bb

  #magenta (Rebecca purple)
  color5 = #663399

  #cyan (actually "ANSI Z535 safety orange", for my eyes)
  color6 = #ff7900

  #white (from the color white)
  color7 = #ffffff

  ###Highlights###
  # Evenly-spaced increments of the greyscale
  # Makes for good tmux/nvim statuslines
  color8 = #1b1b1b
  color9 = #383838
  color10 = #545454
  color11 = #717171
  color12 = #8d8d8d
  color13 = #aaaaaa
  color14 = #c6c6c6
  color15 = #e3e3e3

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by sigzero »

petepete wrote: post #11

Over recent years I've been drawn to the cross-tool themes like Nord and Dracula. https://www.nordtheme.com/ https://draculatheme.com/ Having consistency between neovim, fzf, bat, tmux, tig and fish is lovely.

I run the Nord theme everywhere.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by hoosieree »

KwisaksHaderach wrote: post #7

Does dark themes lets your focus more than light themes?

Biologically, no. Pupils constrict when there's more light, which makes the image hitting your retina more focused. Sharper images can be resolved faster, when means your eye can relax more. For some people this can reduce eyestrain.

However, some people are sensitive to light, so the optics are not the only consideration.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by tambourine_man »

yeetsfromhellL2 wrote: post #66

After playing around with color schemes for over a decade and never really being satisfied, I made my own palette that is pretty close to the ANSI color scheme, just with more attractive shades that I copied from things like subway systems and public safety stuff (fire trucks and school busses) since so much research goes into colors being clear and unmistakable in varying conditions of weather or cleanliness. Highli…

Can you share that with us? Seems interesting

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by ben174 »

yeetsfromhellL2 wrote: post #66

After playing around with color schemes for over a decade and never really being satisfied, I made my own palette that is pretty close to the ANSI color scheme, just with more attractive shades that I copied from things like subway systems and public safety stuff (fire trucks and school busses) since so much research goes into colors being clear and unmistakable in varying conditions of weather or cleanliness. Highli…

Seems like it would be worthy of contributing to this site.
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