Add some ScreenShots

[chrisbra]

Hi,
I thought, it may make sense to add some screenshots so that users can easily see how each colorscheme will look like.

It might also show some deficiencies, e.g. I noticed the visual highlighting for the habamax colorscheme with 'termguicolors' is quite bad cc @habamax fyi.

Anyhow, I tried to include different filetypes with different settings (with termguicolors and without termguicolors (in which case I used 256colors)) and the proper background setting dark except for delek, morning, peachpuff, shine and zellner which seem to use a light background. I tried to make this as reproducible as possible, by always mentioning with which revision a colorscheme and the target filetype has been snapshoted.

Also while at it, I generate a small toc for the main Readme and added a link to the new ScreenShot.md.

[habamax]

@chrisbra I use it with termguicolors in several terminals, tested in xterm, alacritty, st, urxvt, gnome-terminal...

This is how it is supposed to look.

[habamax]

Though I have never checked putty. Will check it.

[chrisbra]

hm, strange that

[neutaaaaan]

I'm seeing bizarre discrepancies regarding the statusline in all of those screenshots.
You also don't seem have a bold font configured, which is the only typographic element we've really relied on as it's usually enabled out of the box or easy to enable, and safe to use. Off the top of my head, retrobox, lunaperche and quiet (especially its light version) rely on that for their highlighting.

I'll play around with putty and a vm during the day.

[chrisbra]

I have no idea how to configure a bold font with putty. It's using basically default settings, except for the font, which is the one mentioned in the ScreenShot.md

[neutaaaaan]

The relevant options should be under the Window menu, in the Colours and Fonts subcategories.

For what it's worth, I can't reproduce any of the issues I noticed in the screenshots using putty 0.74, connected to an alpine vm running vim 9.0.1429, a fresh clone of the repository, ncurses6.3 with the additional terminfo package and TERM set to either xterm, xterm-256color, or putty.

Things only got a bit rough when termguicolors was combined with setting TERM to putty before installing the additional terminfo definitions.

[neutaaaaan]

A few more comments, as all the screenshots have to be taken again:

1. We probably want to use a bigger typeface in those screenshots. Our perception of colors and brightness depends a lot on how densely populated a character cell is, and the softer colorschemes are hit pretty hard by this. Your screenshots are a bit better than my own smallest testing scenario (an 8x16 bitmap font) but going up a few point sizes would be nice.

2. quiet, retrobox and wildcharm are dual background colorschemes.

3. The lack of a bold typeface is a major issue. At least half of the colorschemes use bold as part of their syntax highlighting. Nearly all use bold characters in some way.

[chrisbra]

okay, I'll rework

[chrisbra]

regarding Fonts, I have only 1 Font setting, not sure where bold fonts should be configured:

Does that mean, a default putty config does not work? Or what exactly needs to be re-configured to have nice putty colors?

[neutaaaaan]

Colours and fonts on my linux machine.
Out of the box, putty seems configured to use bright colors to represent bold, and doesn't have a bold typeface configured.
Checking the option to change the font for bold characters without defining one should force it to extrapolate those characters, but it will be ugly compared to a dedicated typeface.

I remember running putty on windows about a year ago and being able to configure it how I wanted.
It has an absolutely terrible configuration system, even for a windows app: remember to save a session profile when you're done or you will lose everything.

[chrisbra]

yes exactly, that's why I like it. It absolutely simple and lightweight (and I have been using it for 20 years) :)

[habamax]

@chrisbra windows putty

[romainl]

Well, bold or not, all the "termguicolors" screenshots in this submission are broken so they can't really be used to show off. Does PuTTY actually support 24bit colors?

Besides, a similar effort has already been started in the wiki: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes/wiki/Remake-sampler-%E2%80%94-256-colors, which, I think, is a better place for this.

[chrisbra]

yes, putty supports termguicolors. I have actually contributed to that patch.

[romainl]

Well, it doesn't seem to do it correctly, or there is something else going on.

This is zaibatsu in iTerm2 on macOS, with termguicolors:

Now compare that screenshot to this one you took in PuTTY, with termguicolors:

The status line is broken in PuTTY, for this colorscheme and all the others.

[chrisbra]

not sure what happened there, I just tried it again:

as far as I can see, it looks exactly as it should (including the white statusline)

[chrisbra]

so how about this one:

blue

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

darkblue

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

delek

putty with 'termguicolors' and 'light' background

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors and 'light' background

desert

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

elflord

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

evening

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

habamax

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

industry

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

koehler

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

lunaperch

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

morning

putty with 'termguicolors' and 'light' background

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors and 'light' background

murphy

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

pablo

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

peachpuff

putty with 'termguicolors' and 'light' background

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors and 'light' background

quiet

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors'

retrobox

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

ron

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

shine

putty with 'termguicolors' and 'light' background

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors and 'light' background

slate

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

sorbet

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

torte

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

wildcharm

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

zaibatsu

putty with 'termguicolors'

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors

zellner

putty with 'termguicolors' and 'light' background

putty without 'termguicolors' and 256 colors and 'light' background

[chrisbra]

oh and now I remember why I never enabled bold typefaces. I hate the bold terminal look and I would hate it, if default colorschemes relied on that.

[neutaaaaan]

@chrisbra Most if not all of the old colorschemes already relied on bold elements. It might be more obvious after we harmonized all the variants, but it's only a surprise because you deprived yourself of an information channel that vim uses just about everywhere. As for hating the look, whatever font you're using seems badly extrapolated.

I still don't get why there are inconsistencies in the statusline and visual selections. I couldn't reproduce any of them yesterday.
To be honest, the whole thing seems like a great example of why vim was allowed to ship with unbelievably broken colorschemes for so long 😆