jay

Yet another Vim colorscheme on GitHub. Inspired by Molokai.

Features

• Same color palette for both terminal and GUI Vim
• Light and dark modes
• Transparent option
• Support for 256 and 16 color terminals
• Explicitly supported plugins:
  • vim-airline (no 16-color support yet)
  • lightline.vim (no 16-color support yet)
  • Vim Better Whitespace
  • Want a certain plugin supported? Feel free to open an issue!

Gallery

Font used in screenshots is Hack. Additional syntax highlighting done by vim-polyglot. Statusline is a handmade one that can be found in jvim. For more examples in different languages, visit 'jay' on colorswat.ch.

Dark Mode

Light Mode

Airline Theme

Lightline Colorscheme

Palette

Tabulated values can be found here.

Installation

1) Installing the Colorscheme

Manually

• Download this repository and unzip its contents
• Copy or move the contents into your .vim directory

vim-plug (or similar plugin manager)

• Add Plug 'josuegaleas/jay' to your .vimrc
• Restart Vim and use :PlugInstall to install

Vim's Built-In Package Manager (see :help packages)

Clone this repository into your .vim/pack directory with:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/josuegaleas/jay.git ~/.vim/pack/josuegaleas/start/jay

pathogen.vim

Clone this repository into your .vim/bundle directory with:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/josuegaleas/jay.git ~/.vim/bundle/jay/

2) Updating .vimrc

Dark Mode

Add the following lines to your .vimrc:

syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme jay

Light Mode

Add the following lines to your .vimrc:

syntax enable
set background=light
colorscheme jay

Transparent Option

Add the following line anywhere before colorscheme jay to your .vimrc:

let jay_transparent = 1

Matching Airline Theme

Airline should automatically set the matching theme. Optionally, you can enable powerline symbols with:

let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1

Matching Lightline Colorscheme

Add the following line to your .vimrc:

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

Roadmap

• Add 16-color support to the Airline theme and the Lightline colorscheme
• Add explicit support for more plugins
• Maybe rewrite the colorscheme using vim-colortemplate
• Add support for Neovim exclusive stuff

References

• gruvbox
• Solarized
• Creating colorschemes for Vim
• Consistent terminal colors with 16-ANSI-color Vim themes
• Vim's colorscheme incubator
• Everforest
• abbott.vim
• $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/syncolor.vim

Tools

• Xterm Color Table
• Colorizer
• HiLinkTrace
• :highlight
• :source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim

Credit

• FliiFe for motivating me to make the transparent option.
• ksergey for motivating me to improve the tabline of the Airline theme and the Lightline colorscheme.