Tinted Vim

Supports console Vim, graphical Vim and Neovim.

Over 250 themes plus light/dark variations are available. Here are some of our favorites:

The classic-dark theme:

The horizon-dark theme:

The onedark theme:

Terminal Themes

For terminal Vim (non-gui) please ensure you are using a terminal theme. Have a look at the list of official and unofficial themes for your terminal of choice.

Installation

Lazy.nvim

{
    "tinted-theming/tinted-vim",
}

Packer

use {
  "tinted-theming/tinted-vim",
  config = function()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme 'base16-ayu-dark'
  end,
}

Pathogen

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/tinted-theming/tinted-vim.git

Plugin 'tinted-theming/tinted-vim'

vim-plug

Add the following to your ~/.vimrc file and run PlugInstall in Vim.

Plug 'tinted-theming/tinted-vim'

Vundle

Add the following to your ~/.vimrc file and run PluginInstall in Vim.

git clone https://github.com/tinted-theming/tinted-vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/tinted-vim

Plugin 'tinted-theming/tinted-vim'

Symlink

You can use a symlink to easily keep things updated. Update your vim colors every time you do a git pull on the tinted-vim repo.

1. Clone tinted-vim somewhere:

git clone git://github.com/tinted-theming/tinted-vim.git ~/projects/tinted-vim

2. Remove your old vim/nvim colors/ directory if it exists:

rm -r ~/.vim/colors # Or ~/.config/nvim/colors for Neovim

3. Symlink the colors directory:

ln -s ~/projects/tinted-vim/colors ~/.vim/colors
# Or for Neovim
# ln -s ~/projects/tinted-vim/colors ~/.config/nvim/colors

Manual

Vim

cd ~/.vim/colors
git clone git://github.com/tinted-theming/tinted-vim.git tinted-vim
cp tinted-vim/colors/*.vim .

Neovim

cd ~/.config/nvim/colors
git clone git://github.com/tinted-theming/tinted-vim.git tinted-vim
cp tinted-vim/colors/*.vim .

256 colorspace

If using a tinted terminal theme designed to keep the 16 ANSI colors intact (a "256" variation) and have sucessfully modified your 256 colorspace with tinted-shell.This will cause vim to access the colors in the modified 256 colorspace. Please do not enable this simply because you have a 256 color terminal as this will cause colors to be displayed incorrectly.

you'll need to add the following to your ~/.vimrc before the colorsheme declaration.

Vim

let tinted_colorspace=256 " Access colors present in 256 colorspace

Neovim (lua)

-- Access colors present in 256 colorspace
vim.g.tinted_colorspace = 256

Background transparency

If you're using a terminal with an opacity of < 1, you'll notice that tinted-vim doesn't respect this transparency by default. You can enable transparent backgrounds with tinted-vim by adding the following settings to your vim/neovim setup.

Vim

Add the following variable to your ~/.vimrc before your colorscheme declaration.

let tinted_background_transparent=1 " Make vim background transparent to work alongside transparent terminal backgrounds

Neovim (lua)

Add the following to your lua setup before your colorscheme declaration.

-- Make vim background transparent to work alongside transparent terminal backgrounds
vim.g.tinted_background_transparent = 1

Troubleshooting

There is a script to help troubleshoot colour issues called colortest available in the tinted-shell repository.

If you are using a ISO-8613-3 compatible terminal (vim docs, neovim docs), and you see a green or blue line, try to enable termguicolors:

set termguicolors

Green line numbers

If your Vim looks like the above image you are using a 256 terminal theme without setting let tinted_colorspace=256 in your ~/.vimrc. Either set let tinted_colorspace=256 in your ~/.vimrc or use a non 256 terminal theme.

Blue line numbers

If your Vim looks like the above image you are setting let tinted_colorspace=256 in your ~/.vimrc but either not running tinted-shell or tinted-shell is not working for your terminal. Either ensure tinted-shell is working by running the colortest available in the tinted-shell repository or not setting let tinted_colorspace=256 in your ~/.vimrc.

Customization

If you want to do some local customization, you can add something like this to your ~/.vimrc:

function! s:tinted_customize() abort
  call Base16hi("MatchParen", g:base16_gui05, g:base16_gui03, g:base16_cterm05, g:base16_cterm03, "bold,italic", "")
  " Or Base24hi for base24 themes
endfunction

augroup on_change_colorschema
  autocmd!
  autocmd ColorScheme * call s:tinted_customize()
augroup END

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md, which contains building and contributing instructions.