morhetz/gruvbox

Gruvbox is a color scheme for Vim, the text editor, meaning it changes the colors used to display your code and interface. The design is described as a bright theme with pastel "retro groove" colors, and it supports both dark and light modes, following a similar approach to another well-known theme called Solarized. The goal was to make colors easily distinguishable and maintain enough contrast while staying pleasant to look at for long coding sessions. The scheme was inspired by three other Vim themes: badwolf, jellybeans, and solarized. It provides extended syntax highlighting (the color-coding of different code elements) for a wide range of programming languages including HTML, XML, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java, Markdown, Haskell, and more. It also integrates with a large number of popular Vim plugins such as NERDTree, Airline, Lightline, GitGutter, Syntastic, CtrlP, and others, ensuring the colors stay consistent across the entire editor experience. Customization is a core feature, you can adjust contrast levels, toggle italics, invert colors, and configure other visual options. Separate community contributions, ports to other editors, and extras are collected in a companion repository called gruvbox-contrib. The theme is released under the MIT license, allowing free use and modification. Installation details and terminal-specific setup instructions are available in the project's wiki.