phha / zenburn.nvim

Zenburn for the modern age

Zenburn

A port of the venerable Zenburn colorscheme to lua.

Zenburn is a low-contrast color scheme for Vim. It’s easy for your eyes and designed to keep you in the zone for long programming sessions.

The aim of this port is to bring Zenburn into the modern age, with support for Treesitter and many more plugins.

Installation

Using your favorite package manager:

vim-plug

Plug "phha/zenburn.nvim"

packer

use {
    "phha/zenburn.nvim",
    config = function() require("zenburn").setup() end
}

paq

require("paq") {
    "phha/zenburn.nvim";
}

Setup

With VimScript:

colorscheme zenburn

With lua:

require("zenburn").setup()

To set the theme in lualine:

require("lualine").setup {
    options = {
        theme = "zenburn",
    }
}

Plugin Support

Zenburn features custom highlighting for these plugins:

• nvim-treesitter
• lualine
• indent-blankline
• nvim-cmp
• nvim-tree
• symbols-outline
• trouble
• which-key
• leap
• gitsigns
• hydra
• neotest

Contributing

Pull requests are always welcome, especially for additional plugins. Please include one or more screenshots showcasing your contribution.

Zenburn already has a rather large palette. I'm trying to avoid color bloat, so please don't add any new colors if at all possible and refer to existing ones instead.

No

• dayglo vomit
• black, red, blue and green on screaming white background
• headache
• watery, squinting eyes
• the "I wanna run away" feeling
• vimL

Yes

• alien fruit salad
• harmonious colors help with concentration
• improved focus
• Lua

zenburn.nvim's Issues

High contrast option

The original zenburn comes with an option for high contrast.
Could this be introduced here as well?

" CONFIGURABLE PARAMETERS:
"
" You can use the default (don't set any parameters), or you can
" set some parameters to tweak the Zenburn colours.
"
" To use them, put them into your .vimrc file before loading the color scheme,
" example:
"    let g:zenburn_high_Contrast=1
"    colors zenburn
"
" You can also do ":let g:zenburn" then hit Ctrl-d or Tab to scroll through the
" list of configurable parameters.
"
" * You can now set a darker background for bright environments. To activate, use:
"      let g:zenburn_high_Contrast = 1
"

Feature request: semantic token highlighting

A big feature request :) The latest Neovim 0.9.0 release added support for semantic token highlighting. It would be amazing to see them in Zenburn, although I understand that probably requires us taking a bit of artistic license since the OG zenburn simply wasn't designed with this in mind.

Would you be willing to accept a PR for this?

Add highlight for WinSeparator

Nvim is deprecating VertSplit and moving to WinSeparator for window borders in 0.10. By default, WinSeparator links to normal which does not look great for most colorschemes.