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shades-of-purple.vim
Vim script

Dark theme for vim

Last updated Jul 8, 2026
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A 24bit dark Vim colorscheme based on ahmadawais/shades-of-purple-vscode

vim

Example using tmux with matching terminal theme

tmux

Install

"""" install
" install with vim-plug
Plug 'Rigellute/shades-of-purple.vim'

" or with NeoBundle " NeoBundle 'Rigellute/shades-of-purple.vim' " or with Vundle " Plugin 'Rigellute/shades-of-purple.vim'

"""" enable 24bit true color " If you have vim >=8.0 or Neovim >= 0.1.5 if (has("termguicolors")) set termguicolors endif

"""" enable the theme syntax enable colorscheme shadesofpurple

Airline

airline-vim

If you would like to use the accompanying airline colorscheme

let g:shadesofpurple_airline = 1
let g:airlinetheme='shadesof_purple'

Lightline

lightline

If you would like to use the accompanying lightline colorscheme

let g:shadesofpurple_lightline = 1
let g:lightline = { 'colorscheme': 'shadesofpurple' }

Terminal

alacritty

For a complete experience, make your terminal use the same colorscheme as vim.

I use alacritty

Add this to ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

# Colors
colors:
  # Default colors
  primary:
    background: "0x1E1E3F"
    foreground: "0xE1EFFF"

# Colors the cursor will use if customcursorcolors is true cursor: text: "0x1E1E3F" cursor: "0xFAD000"

# Normal colors normal: black: "0x000000" red: "0xEC3A37" green: "0x75e44c" yellow: "0xFAD000" blue: "0x6943FF" magenta: "0xFF2C70" cyan: "0x80FCFF" white: "0xFFFFFF"

# Bright colors bright: black: "0x5C5C61" red: "0xEC3A37F5" green: "0x3AD900" yellow: "0xFAD000" blue: "0x6943FF" magenta: "0xFB94FF" cyan: "0x80FCFF" white: "0x2D2B55"

For other terminal emulators check here

Troubleshooting

True color

Make sure you are using a terminal emulator that supports truecolor. Read more about this here.

Colours don't look right

If you are running vim within tmux, you may run into some truecolor issues.

To fix, add this to you tmux.conf

set -g terminal-overrides ',xterm-256color:Tc'
set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"
set -as terminal-overrides ',xterm*:sitm=\E[3m'

And in your .bash_profile || .zshrc

export TERM="xterm-256color"

Ensure you tmux kill-server, quit your emulator of choice and startup it all back up again. It should then look ๐Ÿ‘Œ.

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