g0xA52A2A / zenchrome.vim

A minimal Vim colorscheme for the terminal that clears implicit colors.

zenchrome.vim

A minimal Vim colorscheme for the terminal that clears implicit colors.

Screenshots

Note as this colorscheme only utilizes terminal colors this may, and indeed likely will, differ from the result in your terminal.

Design

Vim sets a number of highlight groups by default. As such when creating a colorscheme for Vim you never actually start from a blank slate.

To remove these defaults you would perform something like the following.

highlight {group-name} NONE

Note this needs to be done for each highlight group. There is no built in mechanism to remove highlights for all groups.

Furthermore highlight groups that set colors can be added at runtime from syntax files. Also when setting the background (even to its existing value) default highlight groups can get re-added. As such manually clearing or overriding Vim's default highlight groups at startup isn't sufficient if you want a minimal colorscheme and/or total control over highlights.

Customising

You can provide your own theme be defining a function called ColorScheme that returns a dictionary, take a look at the default in autoload/zenchrome/default.vim for an example. The reason a function is expected rather than a variable is to allow for dynamic content, namely varying depending upon the value of &background.

Implementation

Whilst the resulting colorscheme is minimal the implementation is not.

The irony of this is not lost on the author.