jasonlong / nordish-vim

An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Vim color theme.

Designed for a fluent and clear workflow.
Based on the Nord color palette.

Nord Vim is a 16 colorspace theme build to run in GUI- and terminal mode with support for many third-party plugins and styles for lightline.vim and vim-airline.

Font: Source Code Pro 20px

• Getting started
  • Installation
    • Via plugin/runtimepath manager
    • Manual
  • Activation
• Configuration
  • Italic comments
  • Uniform status lines
  • Comment contrast
  • Uniform diff background
• Plugin Support
  • UI Plugins
  • Language Plugins
    • JavaScript
• Languages
• Development
  • Contribution

Getting started

Installation

NOTE: Nord Vim in terminal mode MUST be used with the associated terminal emulator theme in order to work properly!
Make sure to install one of the currently supported terminal themes listed below BEFORE installing Nord Vim.

Via plugin/runtimepath manager

I recommend to use vim-plug.
Add Nord Vim to your .vimrc

Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim'

and install via :PlugInstall.

You can specify the develop branch to install the latest development version.

Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'branch': 'develop' }

A specific version can be installed via git tags.

Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'tag': 'v0.6.0' }

Of course it can be installed with any of your favorite tools:
pathogen

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim.git

Vundle
Add Nord Vim to your .vimrc

Plugin 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim'

and install via :PluginInstall.

Manual

Download the latest version or clone the repository and copy the nord.vim theme file to your ~/.vim/colors directory.

Activation

Use Nord Vim as your default color theme by adding it to your .vimrc

colorscheme nord

or change it on-the-fly by running :colorscheme nord.

vim-plug also provides options to enable it on-demand for specific languages

" Activate Nord Vim when editing Java files
Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'for': 'java' }

or on specific events.

" Activate Nord Vim when toggling the NERDTree
Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'on':  'NERDTreeToggle' }

Configuration

All options should be set before the activation command!

Italic comments

This option should only be enabled if your terminal emulator supports italics!

Enable to use italic font for all comments.

To adhere to the Nord style guide this option is disabled by default. It can be enabled by setting the g:nord_italic_comments variable to 1.

let g:nord_italic_comments = 1

Uniform status lines

Enables uniform activate- and inactive status lines using nord3 as background.

By default, Nord Vim uses a slightly brighter background for the current split buffer. This is designed to draw attention to the currently active buffer without being distracting.

If the user desires the backgrounds to be a uniform color, g:nord_uniform_status_lines can be set to 1:

let g:nord_uniform_status_lines = 1

<align="center">Default status lines

Uniform status lines

Comment contrast

This option should only be enabled if your terminal emulator supports 24bit true color (16 million colors)!

This option is only visible if termguicolors is enabled in your ~/.vimrc or set via :set termguicolors!

The comment brightness can be increased by 1 - 20 percent. It can be enabled by setting the g:nord_comment_brightness variable to a number between 1 and 20.

let g:nord_comment_brightness = 12

To adhere to the Nord style guide this option uses nord3 by default.

More information about true color and the support in various terminals can be found in this gist.

Uniform diff background

By default, Nord Vim provides colorful backgrounds when used in diff mode vimdiff/vim -d.

This can be changed to nord1 as uniform diff background color by setting the g:nord_uniform_diff_background variable to 1.

let g:nord_uniform_diff_background = 1

Colorful backgrounds (default)

Uniform diff background

Plugin Support

Nord Vim provides support for many third-party language- and UI plugins.

UI Plugins

lightline

airline

GitGutter

NERDTree

Language Plugins

JavaScript

vim-javascript

Detailed descriptions for supported plugins can be found in the project wiki.

Languages

Nord Vim contains optimized styles to achieve a consistent and uniform coloring across languages.
Detailed descriptions for supported languages can be found in the project wiki and in the Plugin Support section.

Development

Contribution

Please report issues/bugs, feature requests and suggestions for improvements to the issue tracker.

Copyright © 2017 Arctic Ice Studio