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

Installation

Example installation using packer:

-- packer
use "mcchrish/zenbones.nvim"

-- Optionally install lush. Useful if you want to extend the theme
-- e.g. create a statusline plugin theme using zenbones colors
use "rktjmp/lush.nvim"

Usage

Just apply the colorscheme as usual:

set termguicolors
colorscheme zenbones

Alternatively, if you want to make use of the lua version:

set termguicolors
colorscheme zenbones-lua

It works pretty much the same as the first one however you have to 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.

Advance Usage

Other implementations

iterm2

Print terminal colors

You can retrieve the terminal colors as using this command: lua require('zenbones.print').print_terminal_colors(). Useful when you want to apply a zenbones theme to your terminal.

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.