Gruvbox 8 - Vim Color Scheme
Note: if you are using Neovim, checkout the neovim branch of this repo.
This is a simplified and optimized* version of Gruvbox that I have developed to address some issues I had with the official color scheme.
These are the main differences compared to the official Gruvbox:
- by default, no plugin and filetype highlight groups to avoid messing up syntax highlighting after switching color schemes (they can be enabled through options);
- reduced number of options;
- all options are documented;
- slightly different (and, IMHO, better) 256-color palette;
- gracefully degrades to 16, 8 or even only 2 colors;
- support for transparent backgrounds in terminals;
- no shell scripts;
- up to date highlight group definitions (e.g., includes
ToolbarLineandToolbarButton); - defines
g:terminal_ansi_colors; - generated by Colortemplate, i.e., easily hackable.
* Below is the result of a benchmark made using Vim 8.1.1550 and iTerm 2 v3.2.9 on a MacBook Pro Early 2015 with macOS 10.14.5. Note that Gruvbox 8 is optimized for what are believed to be the most common use cases, i.e., GUI, true-color terminals and 256-color terminals.
True-color Variants
256-color Variants
Less capable terminals
Earlier versions of Gruvbox 8 would complain when the terminal did not have enough colors. This is no longer the case: Gruvbox 8 will gracefully degrade to 16, 8 or even 2 colors, as illustrated by the screenshot below:
Hacking
Do you want to hack the theme? Install
Colortemplate, edit the
files in the templates folder, then rebuild the color schemes.