haishanh
night-owl.vim
Vim script

A 24bit dark Vim colorscheme based on sdras/night-owl-vscode-theme

Last updated Jul 4, 2026
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Night Owl syntax

Font in the above screenshot is Iosevka

Night Owl Vim colorscheme screenshot

Font in the above screenshot is Fantasque Sans Mono

A true color Vim colorscheme based on sdras/night-owl-vscode-theme

Usage

""""" install

" install with vim-plug Plug 'haishanh/night-owl.vim' " or with NeoBundle " NeoBundle 'haishanh/night-owl.vim' " or with Vundle " Plugin 'haishanh/night-owl.vim'

""""" enable 24bit true color

" If you have vim >=8.0 or Neovim >= 0.1.5 if (has("termguicolors")) set termguicolors endif

" For Neovim 0.1.3 and 0.1.4 let $NVIMTUIENABLETRUECOLOR=1

""""" enable the theme

syntax enable colorscheme night-owl

" To enable the lightline theme let g:lightline = { 'colorscheme': 'nightowl' }

This theme is build with jacoborus/estilo. If you want to customize this theme, you will need Node.js.

# clone the repo and cd to the dir

install deps

you can use npm too

yarn

checkout file estilo/palettes/night-owl.vim.yml and estilo/syntax/base.yml

read https://github.com/jacoborus/estilo/blob/master/docs/color-palettes.md

and https://github.com/jacoborus/estilo/blob/master/docs/colorschemes.md

to understand how to use them

make changes and run

yarn render

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