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-bg

alabaster-dark

alabaster-dark-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