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

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 colorscheme:

24-bit RGB colors (nvim or 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 also 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 Verdandi and vim-yin-yang. The name came from a book called Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.

There are more similar colorschemes with few colors from this collection.