A dark color scheme for Vim/Neovim based off the Material Pale Night color scheme. Much of the work is based on the lovely onedark.vim color scheme.

Neovim with Lua

Installation

Using lazy.nvim:

{
  "drewtempelmeyer/palenight.vim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    vim.opt.termguicolors = true
    vim.opt.background = "dark"
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("palenight")
  end,
}

Usage

In your Lua configuration, such as ~/.config/nvim/init.lua, use:

vim.opt.termguicolors = true
vim.opt.background = "dark"
vim.cmd.colorscheme("palenight")

To configure lightline, add the following line:

vim.g.lightline = { colorscheme = "palenight" }

To configure airline, add the following line:

vim.g.airline_theme = "palenight"

True Colors

To provide the best user experience possible, I recommend enabling true colors. Current Vim and Neovim versions support this with termguicolors:

vim.opt.termguicolors = true

Italics

Italics are a fantastic way to improve the appearance of your code. Italics will do what they can, but, as they say, "you can't polish a 💩." (Although MythBusters busted this). Digressing here, so place this into your config:

vim.g.palenight_terminal_italics = 1

Overriding Colors

Overriding palenight's colors is supported by setting the g:palenight_color_overrides variable. See palenight.vim for a list of colors that may be overridden. You must provide gui, cterm, and cterm16 values for each.

Example: Overriding the background color to pure black

vim.g.palenight_color_overrides = {
  black = { gui = "#000000", cterm = "0", cterm16 = "0" },
}

Vim with Vimscript

Installation

Using vim-plug, add this to your ~/.vimrc:

Plug 'drewtempelmeyer/palenight.vim'

Then install it from Vim:

:PlugInstall

Usage

In your Vim configuration, such as ~/.vimrc, use:

set termguicolors
set background=dark
colorscheme palenight

To configure lightline, add the following line:

let g:lightline = { 'colorscheme': 'palenight' }

To configure airline, add the following line:

let g:airline_theme = 'palenight'

True Colors

To provide the best user experience possible, I recommend enabling true colors. Current Vim and Neovim versions support this with termguicolors:

set termguicolors

Italics

Italics are a fantastic way to improve the appearance of your code. Italics will do what they can, but, as they say, "you can't polish a 💩." (Although MythBusters busted this). Digressing here, so place this into your config:

let g:palenight_terminal_italics = 1

Overriding Colors

Overriding palenight's colors is supported by setting the g:palenight_color_overrides variable. See palenight.vim for a list of colors that may be overridden. You must provide gui, cterm, and cterm16 values for each.

Example: Overriding the background color to pure black

let g:palenight_color_overrides = {
      \ 'black': { 'gui': '#000000', 'cterm': '0', 'cterm16': '0' },
      \ }

Contributors

The lovely people that have contributed to palenight.vim