https://github.com/davidosomething/vim-colors-meh
My perpetually WIP colorscheme
https://github.com/davidosomething/vim-colors-meh
colorscheme vim
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My perpetually WIP colorscheme
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/davidosomething/vim-colors-meh
- Owner: davidosomething
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-05-04T03:39:59.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-18T21:43:19.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-18T22:29:54.198Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: colorscheme, vim
- Language: Vim Script
- Size: 43 KB
- Stars: 70
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# vim-colors-meh
> 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.
## Installation
Copy the files to the appropriate directories in `~/.vim/`, use vim's native
pack, or use a plugin manager like
[vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug), e.g.
```viml
Plug 'davidosomething/vim-colors-meh'
colorscheme meh
```
Enable the pandoc syntax if you want special pandoc colors. It requires a full
plugin install, so ensure the `plugin/` dir is part of your runtime.
```viml
let g:meh_pandoc_enabled = 1
```
## Some design choices
- The background is not fully black, and Normal text is not fully white to be
easier on the eyes.
- Comments are greyed-out and italicized
- Returns are orange for easy scanning when you use early-return pattern
- Booleans, `super`, `this`, and constants stand out
- Strings are in blue since that is the color people most likely ignore
- Text is slightly brown, and everything else is a contrasted
## Implementation details
- As best as possible, the base Vim highlight groups and colorscheme specific
groups are the only things that are actually assigned colors. Syntax
specific highlight groups are links to those colors.
- The `hi` command is called directly instead of using Vim variables and
functions to call it dynamically. It makes things harder to manage, but it
loads much faster. I may consider statically compiling it in the future.
- I customize colors for the plugins I use or used in the past only. Feel free
to fork if you want to add more.
- Support for vim-pandoc is provided via an autoload function that is called
on demand by the provided plugin to properly override the built-in pandoc
colors.
- Some other plugins are also customized, such as Neomake, showmarks, and
vim-signature, but I might not be using those plugins at the moment so
support may be limited.
## License
MIT