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.

Requirements

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

24-bit RGB colors (neovim or vim compiled with +termguicolors) 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. Useful if you want to extend the theme
-- e.g. create a statusline plugin theme using zenbones colors
use "rktjmp/lush.nvim"
-- See Advanced Usage section for more details

Usage

Just apply the colorscheme as usual:

colorscheme zenbones " light
colorscheme zenflesh " dark

If you want to make use of the lua version:

" Requires `neovim` and `rktjmp/lush.nvim` installed
colorscheme zenbones-lush
colorscheme zenflesh-lush

Configuration and other documentations

See documentations or :help zenbones.txt.

Showcase

'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 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.