A 16-Color Vim Color Scheme

By Ham Vocke

When I work in a command line environment I want to define a color scheme once and let all other command line tools adopt that color scheme. To do so, I define a color scheme I like in my terminal emulator and trust that command line applications follow that theme. This approach often clashes with modern command line tools which have a custom-built way to handle color schemes. The idea is to give users to more than the 16 colors defined in your terminal emulator (256 colors or even true-color support), the downside is that you end up declaring color themes for a ton of command line applications if you care about consistency.

I care about consistency. I don’t care about true-color support. 16 colors are enough for me, thank you.

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