OceanicNeutral

A neutral-grey fork of OceanicNext, tuned for modern Neovim (0.12, truecolor).

OceanicNext is a great theme, but its base tones are slightly blue-grey. Under truecolor those blue tints become visible everywhere — the statusline fill, the visual selection, comments, splits, the file-tree cursor line. OceanicNeutral keeps the whole OceanicNext palette except it replaces those blue-grey base tones with neutral greys, and nudges the blue to match the classic 256-colour rendering.

What changed vs OceanicNext

Role	OceanicNext	OceanicNeutral
base01 — bar / cursorline fill	#343d46 (blue-grey)	#3a3a3a (neutral)
base02 — visual selection	#4f5b66 (blue-grey)	#585858 (neutral)
base03 — comments / inactive / splits	#65737e (blue-grey)	#767676 (neutral)
blue — directories / functions	#6699cc	#5f87d7 (more saturated)

Everything else (red/orange/yellow/green/cyan/purple, foregrounds) is unchanged.

Install

lazy.nvim

{ "avral/OceanicNeutral", lazy = false, priority = 1000,
  config = function() vim.cmd.colorscheme("OceanicNeutral") end }

vim-plug

Plug 'avral/OceanicNeutral'
colorscheme OceanicNeutral

The highlight engine from OceanicNext (autoload/oceanic_next.vim) is bundled, so no extra dependency is required.

Usage

set termguicolors
colorscheme OceanicNeutral

vim-airline

A companion airline theme is included — neutral-grey bar, saturated-green accent, explicit tabline palette (so it stays dark on Neovim 0.12):

let g:airline_theme = 'oceanic_neutral'

Credits

Based on OceanicNext by Mike Hartington (Apache-2.0). See NOTICE.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

The bundled highlight engine autoload/oceanic_next.vim is from OceanicNext and remains under Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE-OceanicNext and NOTICE.