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Add new colorschemes without background

Open romainl opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

Some of the legacy colorschemes specified a ctermbg for Normal while others didn't.

In order to support users who prefer/have to work with a transparent background, we should consider adding a few high-quality "transparent" colorschemes, possibly supporting both bg=dark and bg=light the same way default or retrobox do.

Design constraints:

  • focus on color terminals rather than GUI
  • reduced palette

romainl avatar Mar 06 '25 08:03 romainl

A transparent colorscheme could target a specific region of the spectrum. Say your terminal emulator has a dark blue background and you could choose a Vim colorscheme designed to work against a blue-is background. That colorscheme would possibly avoid {dark,light}blue and capitalize on other more contrasted colors like yellows and purples.

I will try my hand at that idea.

romainl avatar Mar 06 '25 09:03 romainl