ricardoraposo
nightwolf.nvim
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๐Ÿบ Neovim theme based of nightwolf

Last updated May 19, 2026
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Nightwolf

Lua port of the Nightwolf VS** theme for Neovim with Treesitter support!

I mainly code in Typescript and Rust, so there might be a few highlight groups that were not set yet. I also use treesitter, so I'm not making an active effort on supporting the theme to work without it. Therefore, PR's are more than welcome.

Black Dark Blue
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Gray Dark Gray
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Light
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Custom themes

Make your own themes!!! Here are some inspirations

Installation

Lazy

{
  "ricardoraposo/nightwolf.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  opts = {},
}

Packer

use ("ricardoraposo/nightwolf.nvim")

Usage

Vim Script

" Dark theme
set background=dark
colorscheme nightwolf

" Light theme set background=light colorscheme nightwolf

Lua

-- Dark theme
vim.opt.background = 'dark'
vim.cmd.colorscheme("nightwolf")

-- Light theme vim.opt.background = 'light' vim.cmd.colorscheme("nightwolf")

Configuration

Additional settings for nightwolf are:

-- Default options:
{
  theme = 'black', -- 'black', 'dark-blue', 'gray', 'dark-gray', 'light'
  italic = true,
  transparency = false,
  palette_overrides = {},
  highlight_overrides = {},
}

VERY IMPORTANT: Make sure to call setup() BEFORE calling the colorscheme command, to use your custom configs

Overriding

Palette

You can specify your own palette colors. For example:

require('nightwolf').setup {
  palette_overrides = {
    background = "#ff0000",
    darkYellow = '#ffa500',
  }
}

Check below for valid entries:

background = '#000000',
  black = '#000000',
  red = '#f05050',
  white = '#ffffff',
  blue = '#00b1ff',
  lightPurple = '#dc8cff',
  darkPurple = '#9696ff',
  cyan = '#00dcdc',
  lightYellow = '#ffdc96',
  darkYellow = '#ffb482',
  green = '#aae682',
  lightRed = '#ff7878',
  muted = '#c8c8c8',
  comment = '#647882',
  color12 = '#969696',
  color14 = '#141414',
  color15 = '#161b10',
  color16 = '#230c0b',
  color17 = '#343434',
  color18 = '#3c3c3c',
  color19 = '#787878',
obs.: I'm not the most creative, feel free to suggest better naming for those colors

Highlight groups

If you don't enjoy the current color for a specific highlight group, now you can just override it in the setup. For example:

require('nightwolf').setup {
    highlight_overrides = {
        SignColumn = { bg = "#ff9900" }
    }
}

It also works with treesitter groups and lsp semantic highlight tokens

require('nightwolf').setup {
    highlight_overrides = {
        ["@lsp.type.method"] = { bg = "#ff9900" },
        ["@comment.lua"] = { bg = "#000000" },
    }
}

Please note that the override values must follow the attributes from the highlight group map, such as:

  • fg - foreground color
  • bg - background color
  • bold - true or false for bold font
  • italic - true or false for italic font
Other values can be seen in synIDattr>)

Acknowledgements

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