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romainl opened this issue Mar 6, 2025 · 1 comment
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Add new colorschemes without background #276

romainl opened this issue Mar 6, 2025 · 1 comment
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enhancement New feature or request v:dark background Has a dark background v:light background Has a light background v:tui Supports TUI Vim v:16 colors Supports 16color terminal emulators v:256 colors Supports 256color terminal emulators

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romainl commented Mar 6, 2025

Some of the legacy colorschemes specified a ctermbg for Normal while others didn't.

In order to support users who prefer/have to work with a transparent background, we should consider adding a few high-quality "transparent" colorschemes, possibly supporting both bg=dark and bg=light the same way default or retrobox do.

Design constraints:

  • focus on color terminals rather than GUI
  • reduced palette
@romainl romainl added enhancement New feature or request v:16 colors Supports 16color terminal emulators v:256 colors Supports 256color terminal emulators v:dark background Has a dark background v:light background Has a light background v:tui Supports TUI Vim labels Mar 6, 2025
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romainl commented Mar 6, 2025

A transparent colorscheme could target a specific region of the spectrum. Say your terminal emulator has a dark blue background and you could choose a Vim colorscheme designed to work against a blue-is background. That colorscheme would possibly avoid {dark,light}blue and capitalize on other more contrasted colors like yellows and purples.

I will try my hand at that idea.

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enhancement New feature or request v:dark background Has a dark background v:light background Has a light background v:tui Supports TUI Vim v:16 colors Supports 16color terminal emulators v:256 colors Supports 256color terminal emulators
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