Mellow

A soothing dark color scheme for neovim.

Preview

Terminal (kitty)

JavaScript (JSX)

HTML

Clojure

Rust

Palette

Features

• Supports neovim versions 0.8 and above.
• Terminal colors inside neovim.
• Color themes for various applications and terminal emulators: extras.

Plugin Support

• TreeSitter
• LSP Diagnostics
• Lualine
• Git Signs
• Telescope
• WhichKey
• Indent Blankline
• nvim-cmp
• hop.nvim
• nvim-navic
• nvim-notify
• flash.nvim
• nvim-dap-ui
• vim-illuminate

Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.8.0

Installation

Install the theme with your preferred package manager:

vim-plug

Plug 'mellow-theme/mellow.nvim'

packer

use("mellow-theme/mellow.nvim")

Usage

-- Lua
vim.cmd([[colorscheme mellow]])

" Vim Script
colorscheme mellow

Configuration

Configuration needs to be set BEFORE loading the color scheme with colorscheme mellow

Option	Default	Description
mellow_italic_comments	true	Make comments italic
mellow_italic_keywords	false	Make keywords italic
mellow_italic_booleans	false	Make booleans italic
mellow_italic_functions	false	Make functions italic
mellow_italic_variables	false	Make variables italic
mellow_bold_comments	false	Make comments bold
mellow_bold_keywords	false	Make keywords bold
mellow_bold_booleans	false	Make booleans bold
mellow_bold_functions	false	Make functions bold
mellow_bold_variables	false	Make variables bold
mellow_transparent	false	Disable background color
mellow_highlight_overrides	{}	Table of overrides to apply

-- Example config in lua

-- Configure the appearance
vim.g.mellow_italic_functions = true
vim.g.mellow_bold_functions = true

vim.g.mellow_highlight_overrides = {
  ["NormalNC"] = { link = "Normal" }
}

-- Load the colorscheme
vim.cmd([[colorscheme mellow]])

" Example config in vim script

" Configure the appearance
let g:mellow_italic_functions = 1
let g:mellow_bold_functions = 1

" Load the colorscheme
colorscheme mellow

Extras

Extras have been moved to their own repositories which can be found in the github org mellow-theme

Helix

• Included in helix since 22.12.

Visual Studio Code

• Grab it from the marketplace.
• (or) Search within VSCode extension page for "Mellow".

Delta

• Included in delta since 23.06.
  • Download the config here.
  • See https://dandavison.github.io/delta/custom-themes.html for setup instructions.

Credits

• Pascal for making a fantastic tool to work with colors: hue.tools