June 10, 2018

moonfly - A dark color scheme for Vim

It is now just on a year since the first public release of the moonfly color scheme for Vim.

Happy birthday :tada: :tada:

Yes, there are numerous color schemes already, apologies for creating one more :wink:

UPDATE (Sept 2021) I now also maintain another dark colorscheme, nightfly.

History

The moonfly color scheme in actuality dates back to early 2014 and was initially inspired by the Monokai theme as then used by default in the Sublime text editor.

I liked Monokai, but I wanted a theme with a darker background along with less vivid colors. Also, soon after the Atom editor hit the scene with its nice One Dark Syntax theme.

These existing themes, along with certain others provided the basis to combine into a single palette the colors and choices that pleased my eye the most, along with a few color tweaks here and there.

Screenshots

Ruby

ruby

JavaScript

javascript

The font in use is Iosevka.

Details

When used in command-line Vim, a 256-color terminal will be required. This color scheme also supports the newer termguicolors true color option available in modern versions of Vim and Neovim.

Installation details are provided here.

The moonfly color scheme is completely free, MIT licensed.