Hemisu Color Scheme for Vim

With Dark and Light Variants

Hemisu is a color scheme for the command-line editor Vim that comes in two flavors (dark and light) and nicely complements Hemisu for Terminal.

A screen shot of Hemisu on the desktop
The dark and light themes as rendered by 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 the color scheme automatically when you start Vim, add the following to your .vimrc:

colorscheme hemisu

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 for cterm since it 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
    • Consolidated colors between dark and light variants
    • Improved highlights for CSS syntax mode
    • Improved highlights for shell syntax mode
    • Made Todo style more obvious
    • DRYer method of color assignment
  • Version 2.1 (2011-11-29)
    • Added fold markers to file
    • Minor organizational improvements
  • 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 is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Get Hemisu (Version 3.4)

  • #EEEEEE
  • #777777
  • #999999
  • #444444
  • #9FD3E6
  • #B1D631
  • #ECE1C8
  • #BBFFAA
  • #D65E76
  • #005F87
  • #5F5F00
  • #63001C
  • #111111
  • #999999
  • #777777
  • #BBBBBB
  • #538192
  • #739200
  • #FF0055
  • #503D15
  • #EEEEEE
  • #CBE4EE
  • #BBFFAA
  • #FFAFAF
Detail screen shot of Hemisu in MacVim (dark)
Detail of dark variant in MacVim
Detail screen shot of Hemisu in MacVim (light)
Detail of light variant in MacVim

Each color was hand picked for optimal contrast and emphasis in nighttime and daytime lighting conditions respectively. Suitable variants were also chosen by hand for 256-color terminal emulators.

Detail screen shot of Hemisu in a terminal (dark)
256-color version in Terminal.app