mellow-theme
mellow.nvim
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A soothing dark color scheme for neovim and friends.

Last updated Jul 6, 2026
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Mellow

A soothing dark color scheme for neovim.

Preview

Terminal (kitty)

Screenshot of mellow theme terminal

JavaScript (JSX)

Screenshot of mellow theme JS/JSX

HTML

Screenshot of mellow theme HTML

Clojure

Screenshot of mellow theme Clojure

Rust

Screenshot of mellow theme Rust

Palette

Background and foreground Grays Normal colors Bright colors

Features

  • Supports neovim versions 0.8 and above.
  • Terminal colors inside neovim.
  • Color themes for various applications and terminal emulators: extras.

Plugin Support

Requirements

  • Neovim >= 0.8.0

Installation

Install the theme with your preferred package manager:

vim-plug

Plug 'mellow-theme/mellow.nvim'

packer

use("mellow-theme/mellow.nvim")

Usage

-- Lua
vim.cmd([[colorscheme mellow]])
" Vim Script
colorscheme mellow

Configuration

Configuration needs to be set BEFORE loading the color scheme with colorscheme mellow

| Option | Default | Description | | ---------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------- | | mellowitaliccomments | true | Make comments italic | | mellowitalickeywords | false | Make keywords italic | | mellowitalicbooleans | false | Make booleans italic | | mellowitalicfunctions | false | Make functions italic | | mellowitalicvariables | false | Make variables italic | | mellowboldcomments | false | Make comments bold | | mellowboldkeywords | false | Make keywords bold | | mellowboldbooleans | false | Make booleans bold | | mellowboldfunctions | false | Make functions bold | | mellowboldvariables | false | Make variables bold | | mellow_transparent | false | Disable background color | | mellowhighlightoverrides | {} | Table of overrides to apply |

-- Example config in lua

-- Configure the appearance vim.g.mellowitalicfunctions = true vim.g.mellowboldfunctions = true

vim.g.mellowhighlightoverrides = { ["NormalNC"] = { link = "Normal" } }

-- Load the colorscheme vim.cmd([[colorscheme mellow]])

" Example config in vim script

" Configure the appearance let g:mellowitalicfunctions = 1 let g:mellowboldfunctions = 1

" Load the colorscheme colorscheme mellow

Extras

Extras have been moved to their own repositories which can be found in the github org mellow-theme

Helix

  • Included in helix since 22.12.

Visual Studio Code

  • Grab it from the marketplace.
  • (or) Search within VSCode extension page for "Mellow".

Delta

  • Included in delta since 23.06.
- Download the config here. - See https://dandavison.github.io/delta/custom-themes.html for setup instructions.

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