Tranquility.nvim

A collection of quiet dark colorschemes for Neovim.

Philosophy

I find that most color schemes emphasize the reserved words in a language by giving them bright colours. Tranquility.nvim does the opposite, and emphasizes identifiers instead. After all, that’s what the code is really about, right?

It provides a collection of colorschemes derived from different well-known palettes, because sometimes it's nice to mix things up, without sacrificing any principles.

Screenshot

Tranquility: based on Selenized Dark palette

Tranquil Nord: based on Nord palette

Tranquil Catppuccin: based on Catppuccin Mocha palette

Tranquil IntelliJ: based on IntelliJ palette

Configuration

Install the plugin with your favorite plugin manager, for instance with Lazy:

return {
    'jqno/tranquility.nvim',

    config = function()
        vim.cmd.colorscheme('tranquility')

        -- Or pick another scheme:
        -- vim.cmd.colorscheme('tranquil-nord')
        -- vim.cmd.colorscheme('tranquil-catppuccin')
        -- vim.cmd.colorscheme('tranquil-intellij')

        -- Or let Neovim pick one at random:
        -- vim.cmd.colorscheme('tranquil-random')
    end
}

Inspiration

I first got the idea watching a talk by Venkat Subramaniam, who uses a similar colorscheme in his editor.

Then I found a few colorschemes, like zenbones.nvim, which offer different colorschemes following a specific philosophy but based on different well-known color palettes.

This colorscheme is written in the Lua programming language, whose name means 'moon' in Portuguese, and the first implemented palette was the Selenized palette, whose name also refers to the moon. To stick with this lunar theme, the name of this colorscheme is inspired by the moon as well: it refers to the Sea of Tranquility, which loops back nicely to the quiet philosophy.