alabaster.vim

April 10, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Minimal Vim colorschemes inspired by tonsky's Alabaster theme, focused on readability and reduced visual noise.

Variants

  • alabaster - Light theme with subtle colors
  • alabaster-bg - Light theme with background highlighting
  • alabaster-dark - Dark theme with muted colors
  • alabaster-dark-mono - Dark monochrome
  • alabaster-mono - Light monochrome

alabaster

alabaster

alabaster-bg

alabaster-bg

alabaster-dark

alabaster-dark

alabaster-dark-mono

alabaster-dark-mono

alabaster-mono

alabaster-mono

Requirements

  • Vim 8+ or Neovim
  • Terminal with true color support (or GUI Vim/Neovim)

Installation

Using vim-plug

Add to your .vimrc or init.vim:

call plug#begin()
Plug 'sderev/alabaster.vim'
call plug#end()

syntax enable
set termguicolors

colorscheme alabaster
" Available variants: alabaster-bg, alabaster-dark, alabaster-mono, alabaster-dark-mono

Then run :PlugInstall in Vim.

Manual installation

mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
cp /path/to/alabaster.vim/colors/*.vim ~/.vim/colors/

Add to your .vimrc:

syntax enable
set termguicolors

colorscheme alabaster