Alduin

A dark low-contrast Vim colorscheme for Terminal Vim and GUI Vim.

Inspiration

The idea behind Alduin was to create a dark colorscheme that combined warm yet soft colors for high readability with low distraction. Some of the features, and design cues pay homage to schemes like Jeet Sukumaran's Sorcerer, Ciaran McCreesh's Inkpot, as well as Romain Lafourcade's Apprentice, and Steve Losh's Badwolf.

Alduin Settings

Alduin Mode

To make alduin your default colorscheme add this to your .vimrc:

colorscheme alduin

Become Ethereal

Add the following to your .vimrc to enable Alduin's darker version:

" Dark Version of Alduin
let g:alduin_Shout_Become_Ethereal = 1
colorscheme alduin

Contract Vampirism

If you're finding yourself using the default alduin throughout the day and then at night you're enabling Ethereal mode; you might have the onset of Sanguinare Vampiris syndrome. Try adding let g:alduin_Contract_Vampirism = 1 to your vimrc. This will automatically enable Ethereal mode when you launch Vim after 5pm and then reset to the default alduin for the following morning. **Please note that this feature is experimental.

"Starts at 5pm - Ends at 7am
let g:alduin_Contract_Vampirism = 1
colorscheme alduin

Aura Whisper

This is will change the default MatchParen highlight group so that when your cursor is at a brace or parenthesis the matching set will be underlined in Ivory.

let g:alduin_Shout_Aura_Whisper = 1
colorscheme alduin

Moar Screenshots

The screenshots of Alduin were made and tested using a default Vi IMproved 7.3 in iTerm 2.1.4 and the Vi IMproved 7.4 in the GUI MacVim app. Extended syntax for JavaScript provided by Jose Elera Campana's Plug-in vim-javascript-syntax. Enjoy!!

Additional Screenshots

Related

I'd love to hear from you guys if you have any feedback, suggestions or issues that you encounter. Just open an Issue ticket for any bugs or suggestions; and if you like alduin you might want to check out my other Vim theme sierra