Falcon

If you want a few less colours, a bit more gray, a super dark blue background and only a smattering of green, you want Falcon!

Furthermore, falcon doesn't include any magenta (replaced with orange in the terminal) so that you can then use it super sparingly to cut through the noise where appropriate e.g. for the prompt (see the screenshots below for an example)

Coverage:

• Vim / Neovim
  • Plugins:
    • Ale
    • fugitive
    • fzf
    • lightline
    • nerdtree
    • startify
    • tagbar
    • ultisnips
    • vim-gitgutter
    • vim-signature
  • Syntax:
    • CSS
    • Gitconfig
    • Go
    • Vim help
    • HTML
    • Javascript
    • JSON
    • Jsx
    • Lua
    • Markdown
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Ruby
    • Shell script
    • Tmux
    • Twig
    • VimL
    • Yaml
    • Zsh
• Tmux
• iTerm2
• Kitty
• alacritty
• git
• exa

Vim colour scheme built with estilo. Kudos!

Installation

Prerequisites

This colour scheme assumes that you have a working terminal (see iTerm2, Kitty and alacritty below) with bold and italic working. For Vim / Neovim and Tmux a similar assumption is made. How to do this is outside the scope of this README but I wish you well in your endeavours and searching to get it working :) Struggling with these small things (yet irksome!) is part of the fun amirite?!

To get going with the colour scheme, either install this repo using a Vim / Neovim plugin manager or clone / download the repo to a folder of your choosing.

Vim / Neovim

Install manually or use a package manager.

e.g.

" vim-plug
Plug 'fenetikm/falcon'

If you put this repo somewhere else first, e.g. in ~/Documents it would simply be:

" vim-plug
Plug '~/Documents/falcon'

Once installed set the colour scheme:

colorscheme falcon

To enable lightline support it is:

let g:falcon_lightline = 1
let g:lightline.colorscheme='falcon'

...one day I will get around to Airline / stock statusline support... probably. MRs welcome!

iTerm2

To use in iTerm2, go to: Preferences > Profiles > (Profile Name in left pane) > Colors > Color Presets... > Import... and then select the falcon.itermcolors file in the iterm2 directory.

Kitty

kitty project home page

To use in kitty, copy and paste the values in the kitty.conf into the bottom of your kitty.conf file (usually in ~/Library/Preferences/kitty/kitty.conf).

alacritty

alacritty project home page

To use in alacritty, put the color configuration from alacritty.yml into your alacritty.yml file (usually in ~/Library/Preferences/alacritty/alacritty.yml or ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml).

Tmux

A tmux configuration file is included in the tmux directory. It depends on the colours in your terminal being set to the falcon colour scheme (e.g. iTerm2, Kitty or alacritty). To include into your tmux setup put something like the following in your .tmux.conf:

source-file /path/to/falcon/tmux/falcon.conf

Obviously this is an opinionated tmux layout but copy pasta as you see fit.

exa

exa home page

Custom colours for exa are included in the exa/EXA_COLORS file. To use them simply include them into your shell config. ZSH e.g.

source /path/to/falcon/exa/EXA_COLORS

git

To get the output of your git log commands looking on point, included is an example .githelpers file which is a tweaked version of Gary Bernhardt's but with that falcon flair.

One way of using this is by putting the following (thanks again Gary!) in your .gitconfig:

[alias]
  r = !GIT_NO_PAGER=1 git l -30
  l = "!. ~/.githelpers && pretty_git_log"

To then use it you would just do git r for a short git log listing or git l for a long log listing.

Optionally you could additionally put the following in your .gitconfig:

[color]
  ui = auto

[color "branch"]
  current = yellow
  local = 241
  remote = green

[color "diff"]
  meta = yellow
  frag = magenta
  old = red
  new = green

[color "status"]
  added = green
  changed = yellow
  untracked = magenta

Palette

Screenshots

PHP

VimL

CSS

JS

JSON

twig

exa

git

Screenshots taken on macOS running iTerm2, tmux and neovim (where applicable). Font is FiraCode with ligatures enabled. In daily use I use kitty for it's sheer speed but iTerm2 makes perty piccies.

Note: Some syntax colour highlighting choices will depend on which syntax highlighting plugins you use. The above was created using the polyglot syntax plugin (except for Yaml).

Similar default terminal colours

Sometimes you want to use a colour from the main falcon palette in the terminal. Sadly that isn't always easy and so what is easy, is to use a close match from the ANSI 256 palette.

(Refer to estilo/palettes/falcon.yml file for what matches up to what)

• red: 202
• orange: 208
• yellow: 220
• green: 107
• blue_gray: 110
• br_yellow: 230
• br_green: 193
• br_blue: 195
• white: 231
• normal_gray: 253
• light_gray 249
• mid_gray: 245
• mid_dark_gray: 241
• dark_gray: 237
• darker_gray: 235
• black: 0
• bg: 232

Big Thanks

• Estilo for making colour scheme management sane
• Inspiration: gruvbox for not being quite right to my tastes and thus being the seed of this project
• Everyone who Vims!