sprinkles

Sprinkles is a low-key vim colorscheme with an adjustable color palette, which allows you to easily match it with your terminal's theme.

Screenshots

Sprinkles with the default light color palette:

Sprinkles with a custom dark color palette:

Installation

Sprinkles can be installed in the same way as most other vim plugins and colorscheme. If you don't know how to install vim plugins, I recommend installing sprinkles using pathogen. Once pathogen is set up, just clone this repo into your bundle directory:

git clone https://gitlab.com/ajgrf/sprinkles ~/.vim/bundle/sprinkles

Design & Motivation

I had tremendous difficulty getting my terminal vim colorscheme to match my GUI colorscheme, even with themes which provided a matching terminal theme. The approach taken by many other colorschemes is to emulate the GUI theme using the terminal's 256-color palette, with the result that my terminal vim did not exactly match my GUI or my terminal theme.

Sprinkles tackles this problem by restricting terminal colors to the user-set colors 0-7. A configuration option is available to set the GUI color palette to match your terminal theme. Sprinkles should look good on any reasonably themed terminal, which specifically means:

• The colors are all easily visible on the default background. Common offenders include the default themes for the linux console and putty.
• The colors roughly correspond to the standard colors on 16-color terminals. For example, color 0 is black, color 1 is red, etc. This includes most terminal themes in the wild, but excludes crazy palettes like solarized or base16.

It shouldn't matter whether you use a light or dark theme. Some color palettes which break these rules may look good by accident.

In addition, sprinkles aims to look a bit less busy than other colorschemes.

Configuration

You can define a custom color palette for sprinkles to use, with the caveats described above. Just define the variable g:sprinkles_palette in your vimrc:

let g:sprinkles_palette = {
  \'text':       '#c5c5c5',
  \'background': '#161616',
  \'black':      '#161616',  'dark_grey':      '#4a4a4a',
  \'red':        '#a65353',  'bright_red':     '#cc6666',
  \'green':      '#909653',  'bright_green':   '#b5bd68',
  \'yellow':     '#bd9c5a',  'bright_yellow':  '#f0c674',
  \'blue':       '#5f788c',  'bright_blue':    '#81a2be',
  \'magenta':    '#816b87',  'bright_magenta': '#b294bb',
  \'cyan':       '#668c88',  'bright_cyan':    '#8abeb7',
  \'white':      '#c5c5c5',  'bright_white':   '#f7f7f7',
  \}
colorscheme sprinkles