vim-colors-meh

A 256-color / 24-bit Vim color scheme, with preference for contrast over hues.

It works for me, just publishing it in case someone has similar taste and wants to use it.

A generated screenshot on vimcolors may be more up to date.

Installation

Copy the files to the appropriate directories in ~/.vim/, use vim's native pack, or use a plugin manager like vim-plug, e.g.

Plug 'davidosomething/vim-colors-meh'
colorscheme meh

Enable the pandoc syntax if you want special pandoc colors. It requires a full plugin install, so ensure the plugin/ dir is part of your runtime.

let g:meh_pandoc_enabled = 1

Some design choices

• The background is not fully black, and Normal text is not fully white to be easier on the eyes.
• Comments are greyed-out and italicized
• Returns are orange for easy scanning when you use early-return pattern
• Booleans, super, this, and constants stand out
• Strings are in blue since that is the color people most likely ignore
• Text is slightly brown, and everything else is a contrasted

Implementation details

• As best as possible, the base Vim highlight groups and colorscheme specific groups are the only things that are actually assigned colors. Syntax specific highlight groups are links to those colors.
• The hi command is called directly instead of using Vim variables and functions to call it dynamically. It makes things harder to manage, but it loads much faster. I may consider statically compiling it in the future.
• I customize colors for the plugins I use or used in the past only. Feel free to fork if you want to add more.
• Support for vim-pandoc is provided via an autoload function that is called on demand by the provided plugin to properly override the built-in pandoc colors.
• Some other plugins are also customized, such as Neomake, showmarks, and vim-signature, but I might not be using those plugins at the moment so support may be limited.

License

MIT