Zenflesh, Zenbones

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

A rock garden in Ryōan-ji.

Recommended setup

Vim/Neovim with true colors support i.e. set termguicolors
Font with bold and italic
Terminal or GUI with bold and italic support

Installation

Example installation using packer:

use {
    "mcchrish/zenbones.nvim",
    -- Optionally install Lush. Allows for more configuration or extending the colorscheme
    requires = "rktjmp/lush.nvim"
    -- If you don't want to install lush, make sure to set g:zenbones_compat = 1
}

Usage

Just apply the colorscheme as usual:

colorscheme zenbones " light
colorscheme zenflesh " dark

colorscheme zenwritten " Zero hue and saturation version
colorscheme neobones " https://neovim.io flavor
colorscheme rosebones " Rosé Pine flavor - https://rosepinetheme.com
colorscheme forestbones " Everforest flavor - https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest
colorscheme nordbones " Nord flavor - https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/colors-and-palettes
colorscheme tokyobones " Tokyo Night flavor - https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme#color-palette

Configuration and other documentations

See documentations or :help zenbones.txt.

Showcase

Zenbones	Zenflesh

'bright'	default	'dim'

'stark'	default	'warm'

Other plugins support

Aside from LSP and basic Tree-sitter support, here are some plugins that are currently supported.

Other implementations

It's also possible to generate any color configuration files using a template, this one for Kitty for example. Please feel free to submit a PR if you want to add some more.

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.

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