Hemisu Color Scheme for Vim

Features

• Two modes: one optimized for daytime, the other optimized for low light conditions
• Made to work with both GUIs (gui) and color terminals (cterm)
• Provides harmonious colors and styles for all predefined UI elements and syntax groups

Usage

To install and use this color scheme, move the file hemisu.vim into your colors directory (e.g., ~/.vim/colors/).

The color scheme comes in two flavors, dark and light. To toggle between the two modes, set the background in Vim:

:set background=dark
:set background=light

To enable syntax highlighting and use the color scheme automatically when you start Vim, add the following to your .vimrc:

if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
  syntax on
  colorscheme hemisu
endif

Change Log

• Version 3.4 (2012-10-10)
  • Improved highlights for help files
  • Use nicer cterm value for dark blue
• Version 3.3 (2012-02-28)
  • Corrected some cterm colors
• Version 3.2 (2012-01-07)
  • Made repo pathogen.vim-friendly
  • Added user highlight groups User1, User2, User3 for use in e.g. custom status line
  • Small adjustment to JavaScript highlights
• Version 3.1 (2011-12-12)
  • Improved highlights for JavaScript syntax mode
  • Switched the backgrounds of the normal and selected states of tabs so that appearance of selected tab is more intuitive and obvious
  • Spelling was invisible since cterm doesn't support undercurl. Duh. This adds corresponding background colors (faint variants) to cterm.
• Version 3.0 (2011-12-03)
  • Refined color palette: reduced chroma of certain accent colors; improved contrast
  • Made Todo style more obvious
  • Consolidated colors between dark and light variants
  • Improved highlights for CSS syntax mode
  • Improved highlights for shell syntax mode
  • DRYer method of color assignment
• Version 2.1 (2011-11-29)
  • Added fold markers to file
  • Minor improvements to organization
• Version 2.0 (2011-11-20)
  • Completely refactored for easier maintenance
  • Added remaining UI color groups
  • Added diff color groups
  • Added spelling color groups
  • Full support for both GUIs (gui) and color terminals (cterm)
  • Various adjustments to existing colors
• Version 1.0 (2011-11-13)
  • Initial release

License

Hemisu by Noah Frederick is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

More information and updates can be found on the canonical page and GitHub repository.