lainproliant / ekvoli-ng

An approximation of Ekvoli by Preben Randhol into base16

ekvoli-ng: Different shades of blue, now in all colors of the rainbow

About Ekvoli

Ekvoli is a beautiful "different shades of blue" Vim colorscheme developed by Preben Randhol in 2006. Of all the colorschemes I've ever tried in the past 17 years, I always gravitate back to Ekvoli. Nothing beats it for me in terms of comfort of reading, aesthetic beauty, and code clarity.

Goals

This project's goal is to take the beautiful Ekvoli colorscheme and adjust the overall HSV values of all of the colors to arrive at base color motifs of the same contrast ratios.

This project also aims to extend Ekvoli into systems beyond Vim, by re-interpreting it into the wonderful Base16 framework so that it (or a colorscheme like it) may be utilized in many different applications.

Finally, this project hosts the code for hsv, a simple command line tool for applying HSV transformations to the 6-digit hex color values in a file. This can be used to great effect to customize a wide variety of colorschemes, so long as their colors are represented this way.

Usage

If you would just like to use the pre-made colorways I've configured, follow the guides below. If you would like to make your own Ekvoli (or other colorscheme) variants, see below.

Vim

Add lainproliant/ekvoli-ng as a Vundle/Plug/whatever plugin.

Base16

See base16-utils for an example of how you can setup a framework to automate the colorways of all sorts of different apps by utilizing base16-builder.

The hsv Tool

See build.py for examples of how the hsv tool is applied to ekvoli.vim and ekvoli.yaml. Experiment with different HSV adjustment values and see what you end up with!