Light and dark variants site by side in Terminal.app

The counterpart to the dichromatic Hemisu color scheme for Vim, Hemisu for OS X (Mountain) Lion’s Terminal.app comes in two versions, dark and light.

The dark and light themes running in MacVim

Features

• Two modes: one optimized for daytime, the other optimized for low light conditions
• Made to work with both GUIs (gui) and 256-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

License

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

See the link below for the repository on GitHub.com, which includes these instructions and the .vim file, and check out the dedicated page. Feel free to leave a comment to report any bugs you find or just to let me know you’re using it.

The text colors were chosen for maximum legibility on the dark background. The soft white text is accented with the red-pink bold text style.

Peppermint on the desktop

Feel free to download the .terminal file and enjoy.

Version 1.2

• Specify Monaco font instead of Panic Sans

Version 1.1

• Increased background opacity for better legibility when window is on a light backdrop
• Removed background blur
• Very subtle adjustments to colors

Version 1.0

• Initial Release

To make a backup of example.txt, open the file in the editor, go to
Plug-ins

>
Make Timestamped Snapshot

or hit Ctrl+Option+Cmd+S, and example_20110412.txt will be created in the same directory. I’ve only included the year, month, and day in the timestamp to suit my usage, but it can be easily modified if need be (just edit the bundled shell script).

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