vim-substrata a cold, dark colourscheme for Vim made in Colortemplate, the Toolkit for Vim Colourscheme Designers inspired by Nord and Iceberg

Installation

Use your favorite runtimepath/plugin manager, or place substrata.vim into ~/.vim/colors/ for *nix and %userprofile%\vimfiles\colors\ for Windows.

Usage

Vim

Substrata should work out of the box if you’re using a GUI Vim such as GVim or MacVim. Terminal usage, however, requires the terminal supporting 24-bit colour, also known as True Colour.

set termguicolors " Only needed in terminals
colorscheme substrata

Terminal

If you want other terminal output to match with Substrata, then set your terminal emulator’s colours to match the ones below:

A preset is included for iTerm and in Xresources format. The Xresources format can be used either by copying the contents of xresources/substrata.xresources into ~/.Xresources, or, if you would prefer to keep the theme in a separate file, you can instead include it with the following syntax:

#include "/path/to/substrata.xresources"

Screenshots

Note that the screenshots below are likely to be slightly out of date. The typeface used in the screenshots is iA Writer Mono, which is derived from IBM Plex Mono.

Popup menu Searching Diffing Writing using Goyo and Limelight Visual mode Fugitive

Inspiration

Substrata was inspired by these colourschemes (they’re great, you should check them out!):

• Apprentice
• Blame
• Iceberg
• Nord