A list of Vim colorschemes with barely any colors. Go ahead, compare and contrast.
A dark 256-color color scheme for vim.
Have you ever wondered why most syntax highlighting of source code is about as subtle and pretty as a candy shop explosion? A technical reason is the historical constraints imposed by 16 color terminals, but fortunately this limitation is easy to overcome.
A vim colourscheme with a configurable accent colour. It can help you quickly tell apart different vim sessions at a glance.
acme colors for vim.
Probably the purest black and white vim colorscheme you can find on the internet.
Severe or stern in disposition or appearance; somber and grave_
See the Base16 repository for more information.
a truly boring monochrome colorscheme for vim, inspired by 'noclown'.
A Vim colorscheme with just enough color to deserve its job title.
- should use colors only for UI-related highlight groups
- should only use combinations of bold, reverse, underline, italic, and NONE for syntax-related highlight groups
- should work the same on light and dark background without human intervention
A dark monochrome grey colorscheme for vim with a simple accent color.
Yet another minimal colorscheme for Vim/Neovim
A 256-color / 24-bit Vim color scheme, with preference for contrast over hues.
It works for me, just publishing it in case someone has similar taste and wants to use it.
For a number of weeks, I ran vim with
syntax off. It was quite nice, with only two annoyances:
- Bright white on jet black was a bit off-putting.
- There were cases when I did miss the lack of color, vimdiff for example.
Therefore, I aimed to find or create a colorscheme to solve these two issues.
The result is very much based on the pencil colorscheme, which is surprising because it's a very colorful colorscheme, but:
- It uses a very sane approach to defining and setting colors
- It has nice background and foreground colors
- In the areas where I do want color, I like how it colors things
Minimalistic colorscheme which uses bold to highlight keywords and a distinguished color for constant literals (string, numbers, JSX tags).
A minimal colorscheme for Vim that only puts emphasis on the paramount.
A light (and dark) color scheme for Vim inspired by iA Writer
Simple monochrome Vim colorscheme focused on indulgeing into the darkness
Clears up syntax highlighting to reveal what is important.
Fogbell is a fork of SpaceCamp minus color. It comes with only comments, diff, and hlsearch differentiated out of the box, but the files are easy to edit if you need more (or less) distinction. No bold or italics. Fogbell includes dark, low-contrast, and light variants.
A color scheme inspired by a very nice rogue like game design.
Inspired by Mies Van Der Rohe's architecture in the Chicago area, particularly Farnsworth House, Illinois Institute of Technology's S. R. Crown Hall, and 860-880 Lake Shore Drive. Diff colors inspired by Dieter Rams' Braun ET66 calculator.
A dark Vim color scheme for your focused hacking session.
monochromenote is inspired by KOKUYO's awesome notebook.
Another monochrome vim colorscheme. Inspired by various other > monochrome > colorschemes.
Monotone is a middle ground between a regular colorscheme and no syntax highlighting at all. The colorscheme differentiates comments, strings and keywords with different weights and shades of gray. It emphasizes errors, warnings and search highlighting as shown in the screenshots below.
A mostly color free theme with a goal of not making your code look like a clown threw up.
An extremely minimalist colorscheme, even opting out of the second L in frills.
A dark minimal vim theme with a touch of hot pink (magenta?).
A personal light theme for (Neo)Vim, based on the color of paper as found in various notebooks.
Parchment is an editor theme for Vim and Emacs, inspired by Acme and Leuven. You might like it if you prefer light colorschemes but think black-on-white is too hard on your eyes, or if you find most colorschemes too busy.
Monochrome Vim color scheme based on Phoenix.
Photon is a low-contrast colour scheme, which cares about the little details. It is based on an old version of paramount and is designed to look exactly the same on 256 colour terminals as it does on true colour terminals.
A minimal dark color scheme for VIM, inspired by badwolf and 256_noir.
A minimal vim colorscheme, inspired by the work of Dieter Rams.
☠️ Minimal monochrome theme for vim.
A minimal pink colorscheme for Vim.
This is a true black/grey/white theme for vim. I would say it is as close as I have seen to what the original vi editors looked like (think elvis).
Warlock is a dark, low-contrast, grayscale colorscheme for Vim based on the awesome Apprentice by Romain Lafourcade.
Yin-Yang is a black and white color scheme for Vim and is heavily inspired by preto and base16-grayscale.
I liked preto's subtle use of colors in a black/white colorscheme but found the contrast too high for my liking, so I created Yin-Yang as a low contrast version of preto.
Monochromatic dark(闇) theme for Vim
Experimental color scheme without any colors, except what's required to display a meaningful
diff. All syntax differentiation is achieved through font styles, so your terminal needs to support bold and italic text.Shades are used for things like dimming folded text.
zazen vim color scheme (a personalized version of zenesque).
Zenbones is a collection of vim/neovim colorschemes designed to highlight code using contrasts and font variations. Colors are tasked only for other roles such as diagnostics, diffs, search matches.
Almost colorless(shades of grey), light minimalistic color scheme. Designed for reading for long periods. Inspired by Mini.
Vim clone of Rasmus Andersson's Sublime theme Mostly gray and white, with some muted colors
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