FliiFe / jay

Yet another colorscheme for Vim. Inspired by Molokai.

jay

Yet another colorscheme for Vim. Inspired by Molokai.

About this fork

This fork aims to provide a transparent alternative to the jay colourscheme, while staying as close to the original one as possible.

Please note that transparency has to be supported and enabled in your terminal configuration.

Features

• Same color palette for both terminal and GUI Vim
• Light and dark variants
• Matching themes for Airline and Lightline
• Support for 16 color terminals

Palette

Tabulated values can be found here.

Gallery

Font used in screenshots is Hack.

Airline Theme

Lightline Theme

Installation

Installing the Colorscheme

Method 1: Manually

• Download this repository and unzip the contents
• Copy or move the contents into your .vim/ directory
  • On Windows, your .vim/ directory may be called vimfiles\ instead

Method 2: Vundle (or similar plugin manager)

• Add Plugin 'josuegaleas/jay' to your .vimrc file
• Restart Vim, and then use the command :PluginInstall to install the bundle

Method 3: Pathogen

• Clone this repository into your .vim/bundles/ directory with:

   git clone https://github.com/josuegaleas/jay.git ~/.vim/bundle/jay/
  

  • On Windows, your .vim/ directory may be called vimfiles\ instead

Updating .vimrc

Dark Variant

Add the following lines to your .vimrc file:

syntax on
set background=dark
colorscheme jay

If you would like the matching theme for Airline, add the following line to your .vimrc file:

let g:airline_theme='jay'

If you would like the matching theme for Lightline, add the following line to your .vimrc file:

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

Light Variant

Add the following lines to your .vimrc file:

syntax on
set background=light
colorscheme jay

If you would like the matching theme for Airline, add the following line to your .vimrc file:

let g:airline_theme='jay_light'

If you would like the matching theme for Lightline, add the following line to your .vimrc file:

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

To Do

• A light mode option
• Improve light mode option
• Support for various plugins
• Support for environments that use italics
• Improve support for 16 color terminals
• Support for 8 color terminals

References

• gruvbox
• Solarized
• Vimcasts, Episode 25

Tools Used

• Xterm Color Table
• Colorizer
• HiLinkTrace
• :help highlight-groups
• :help group-name
• :highlight
• :source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim