What's this?

A minimal light colorscheme for Vim/Neovim.

In the screenshot:

• The iterm2 color preset: PencilLight
• The font: Script 12 Pitch PT
• The buffer line: ap/vim-buftabline
• The tmux theme: edkolev/tmuxline.vim with below configs:

  let g:tmuxline_powerline_separators = 0
  let g:tmuxline_theme = 'vim_statusline_1'
  let g:tmuxline_preset = {
    \ 'win': '#W',
    \ 'cwin': '#W#F',
    \ 'options': {
    \   'status-justify': 'left'}
    \}
  

Requirements

• set termguicolors in your .vimrc: Read this to check if your terminal emulator supports it or not

Installation

If you use vim-plug, do something like this in your .vimrc.

Plug 'thenewvu/vim-colors-sketching' 
set rtp+=~/.vim/plugged/vim-colors-sketching
colorscheme sketching

For other plugin managers, please follow their guide.

Suggestions

This colorscheme works very well with vim-gigutter. You can see the above screenshot. For other VCS (version control system), you can use vim-signify. Below is my configurtion for vim-gitgutter, just for example:

Plug 'airblade/vim-gitgutter'
let g:gitgutter_highlight_lines = 1
hi link GitGutterAdd DiffAdd
hi link GitGutterChange DiffChange
hi link GitGutterDelete DiffDelete
hi link GitGutterAddLine DiffAdd
hi link GitGutterChangeLine DiffChange
hi link GitGutterDeleteLine Normal
hi link GitGutterChangeDeleteLine DiffChange

Credits

• https://github.com/noahfrederick/vim-hemisu/
• https://github.com/reedes/vim-colors-pencil
• https://github.com/pbrisbin/vim-colors-off

License

MIT.