color minimalism

here i explain how i use colours in vim

custom colorscheme

to maintain my own colorscheme in vim i use lifepillar/vim-colortemplate, https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-colortemplate.

show current buffer highlight groups:

:hi[ghlight]

show color group under cursor in vim w/:

:execute 'hi' synIDattr(synID(line("."), col("."), 1), "name")

when setting colors for specific color group, specify it for both light and dark variants of the colorscheme. TODO: elaborate on this.

in general, i try to use as few colours as possible. so i try to stick to the basic 16 colours in my vim colorscheme.

there’s a good website, https://www.hashemian.com/tools/html-css-color-test.htm, that will help you to quickly check how the colours you choose will look in an html page.