Zenbones is a light vim/nvim colorscheme designed to highlight code using contrasts and font variations. Colors are tasked for other roles such as diagnostics, diffs, search matches, and actions.

It's made using the handy lush.nvim.

A rock garden in Ryōan-ji.

Requirements

Primarily built for nvim but it works pretty well with vim. However here are some requirements to take full advantage of the theme:

24-bit RGB colors (vim compiled with +termguicolors)
Font with bold and italic
Terminal or GUI with bold and italic support

Usage

Install using your favorite plugin manager and just apply the colorscheme as usual:

set termguicolors
colorscheme zenbones

Alternatively, if you want to make use of lua or you forked this repo and tweaked the colors to your liking:

colorscheme zenbones-lua

To make it work however, you must install lush.

Showcase

Diff highlights

Diagnostics

Font used is Iosevka.

Other plugins support

Aside from LSP and basic Tree-sitter support, there are only a few plugins that are currently supported. Please feel free to open a PR to support your favorite plugins.

Other implementations

iterm2

Inspirations

Zenbones is heavily inspired by Vervandi and vim-yin-yang. The name came from a book called Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.

Check out more colorschemes with few colors from this collection.