alexmozaidze/palenight.nvim

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2023-07-21

UPDATED

2026-01-09

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palenight.nvim

[!NOTE]
This is a maintained hard fork of drewtempelmeyer/palenight.vim.

Dark palenight colorscheme written in Fennel with full support for:

• Tree-sitter
• LSP (including semantic highlighting)
• True-color, 256 and 16 color palette terminals
• GUIs (like Neovide)
• And lots of plugins!

Requirements

Neovim >=0.8, though, latest one is recommended.

Installation

{ "alexmozaidze/palenight.nvim" }

use "alexmozaidze/palenight.nvim"

Usage

vim.cmd.colorscheme "palenight"

Setup options

[!NOTE]
Setup is completely optional, you only need it to set options. Plugin loads by itself when you set the colorscheme.

Here are the default options:

{
   -- Some terminals don't display italics very well,
   -- thus, they're disabled by default.
   italic = false,

   -- Fallback color palette for non-truecolor terminals,
   -- such as tty or some really old terminal.
   --
   -- Available options:
   -- "auto" => 16 color palette if in linux tty, 256 otherwise.
   -- 256    => 256 color palette.
   -- 16     => 16 color palette.
   cterm_palette = "auto",
}

Plugin support

Many plugins are supported, including:

• lualine.nvim
• rainbow-delimiters.nvim
• gitsigns.nvim
• indent-blankline.nvim
• hlargs.nvim
• nvim-hlslens
• modicator.nvim
• marks.nvim
• nvim-cmp

For full list of supported plugins, see groups.fnl.

If you have a plugin that isn't supported, feel free to file an issue or make a pull request.

Overriding colors

local colors = require "palenight/colors/truecolor"
local hl = vim.api.nvim_set_hl
local autocmd = vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd

autocmd("ColorScheme", {
   pattern = "palenight",
   callback = function()
      -- Directly setting a color
      hl(0, "Operator", { fg = colors.purple })
      -- Linking to another highlight group
      hl(0, "Operator", { link = "Macro" })
   end,
})

For list of available colors check out colors/truecolor.fnl.
Also check out :help nvim_set_hl() and :help nvim_create_autocmd().

{
   "alexmozaidze/palenight.nvim",
   init = function()
      -- WARN: The order in which you require these modules is important.
      --       Require and set the colors before requiring groups.

      -- Changing internal colors
      local colors = require "palenight/colors/truecolor"
      colors.comment = "#ff00ff"
      -- Changing internal group table
      local groups = require "palenight/groups"
      groups["@function"].fg = "#ff0000"
   end,
}

Transparency

Use xiyaowong/transparent.nvim

or...

If you want to do transparency yourself, you can override the Normal color to be cleared. However, keep in mind that xiyaowong/transparent.nvim is more convenient and is more complete. It covers more highlight colors and has commands to toggle transparency.

{
   "alexmozaidze/palenight.nvim",
   init = function()
      local groups = require "palenight/groups"
      groups["Normal"] = { ctermbg = "none", ctermfg = "none", fg = "none", bg = "none" }
   end,
}

Questions? Need help?

If you need help with the plugin you can ask any questions on discussions.