PaperColor Theme

Light color scheme for Vim terminal editor and gVim

Inspired by Google's Material Design

Improve code readability; great for presentation

Currently designed for these languages: C, C++, Makefile, CMake, Lex/Flex & Yacc/Bison, Bash, VimL, Golang, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Markdown, DTrace, SystemTap, PlantUML, Haskell, Assembly (MIPS, GAS, NASM), SQL/MySQL, Octave/MATLAB, Fortran, R, PHP

Other languages can still display well as long as your Vim is set up to recognize the language syntax even though that may not be the optimal experience. So, if the language you are working on isn't listed here, feel free to make a design request.

Plugin support: Netrw, NERDTree, Tagbar, Tabline, Vimdiff, Vim-Airline

(see below for syntax-highlighting plugins target)

Installation

Place 'PaperColor.vim' file into 'colors' folder within your Vim directory, e.g. ~/.vim/colors/

Or simply use a plugin manager like Vundle (recommended for easy update):

Plugin 'NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme'

Then, put this in your ~/.vimrc

set t_Co=256
colorscheme PaperColor

Optional: turn on line numbers and status bar

set number
set laststatus=2

Syntax Highlighting Plugins Target

There are syntax highlighting enhancement plugins that improve upon Vim built-in syntax highlighting, and each can have many different implementations. This is the list of plugins that this color scheme targets.

• C: c-syntax.vim
• C++, STL: vim-cpp-enhanced-highlight
• Go: vim-go
• DTrace: dtrace-syntax-file
• SystemTap: vim-systemtap
• Haskell: haskell-vim
• PlantUML: plantuml-syntax
• Markdown: vim-markdown
• Assembly MIPS: mips
• Assembly GAS: vim-gas
• Octave/MATLAB: vim-octave
• Python: python-syntax

Screenshots

To set vim-airline theme:

let g:airline_theme='PaperColor'

For more sceenshots, story behind the project, and other users' designs inspired by Paper Color, go to this blog post

Suggestions/Wishes/Questions/Comments are welcome via Github issues or via the blog above.