My Favorite Neovim Colorschemes

Tokyonight, Kanagawa, and more

Michael Bao
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I will link my dotfiles for Neovim as I find the best way to figure out how something works, is to see inspiration, rather than reading documentation — how boring. This does come at a disadvantage, as it will be more difficult to understand how your editor (Neovim) works.

The installation details that will be given are for the package manager — Packer.nvim. I would highly recommend moving to it if you are still using something else as it makes life so much easier.

Tokyonight.nvim

Tokyonight.nvim is a colorscheme created by Folke Lemaitre. Lemaitre creates many cool Neovim plugins like which-key.nvim and trouble.nvim, each with over 2000 stars on GitHub.

Tokyonight has four flavors, 3 dark, and 1 light. Each flavor is a sort of bluish-green theme that looks fantastic. My favorite flavor of Tokyonight is Night, it was Storm in the beginning.

Screenshot of Night flavor from GitHub
Screenshot of Storm flavor from GitHub

Tokyonight supports a vast variety of plugins (see here). Along with supporting a lot of plugins, there are also colorschemes for other applications like Alacritty. Continuing Tokyonight was…

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Michael Bao
Unixification

Neovim | Arch Linux | macOS | I love to write about random tech stuff. Tinkering around with Linux, Neovim, and computers.