vim-theme.md

Vim Theme

Candi provides OKLCH-based colorschemes for terminal and GUI Vim.

Installation

Release Artifacts

Download vim.zip from the latest GitHub release and extract:

unzip vim.zip
cp vim/colors/*.vim ~/.vim/colors/

For Neovim:

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/colors
cp vim/colors/*.vim ~/.config/nvim/colors/

See Using Release Artifacts for detailed instructions.

Manual (From Source)

Copy the .vim files to your colors directory:

cp vim/colors/*.vim ~/.vim/colors/

Plugin Manager

Using vim-plug:

Plug 'wtasg/candi', { 'rtp': 'vim/' }

Usage

Enable the theme in your .vimrc:

" Dark mode
set background=dark 
colorscheme candi-dark

" Light mode
set background=light
colorscheme candi-light

Setup

Ensure your terminal supports true color:

if (has("termguicolors"))
  set termguicolors
endif