the supreme way to experience light and color
This repo is the neovim version of the world-renowned JetBrains Restrained Salmon Theme (github)
It uses ground-breaking Color Science™ from my Palette Gen library.
You should use this theme if
- you have finally grasped the inferiority of dark mode
- you want a Financial Times ~ Manhattan Project vibe in your editor
- love voluptuously rich yet amazingly readable colors, used with tasteful restraint
- (COMING SOON) want a rotation of palettes that adjust to your ambient surroundings and time of day
I also have pretty decent plugin coverage.
{
"qdbp/salmon.nvim",
opts = {},
lazy = false,
priority = 1337,
}Not my problem -- just use lazy.nvim.
Contributions must satisfy the three cardinal rules:
- have impeccable taste
- not make my job harder
- maintain this theme as an elite, rarefied experience.
Who determines good taste? I do.
Also: no emojis, anywhere, ever, for whatever reason (see rule 1).
The theme tries to follow a consistent design language, where it does not conflict with beauty:
The only things that are bold are keywords, function calls and any other language construct -- modulo my ability to select it for highlighting -- that alters control flow. Nothing else is bold: not declarations, not global variables, etc.
This creates the effect such that glancing at a block of code, its structure and its calls visually pop out to give a high-level impression at a glance, without being crowded out by identifier specifics.
Wherever sensible, mutable variables or mutation in general are denoted by italics. This is interpreted sensibly, in that I don't, for instance, make every variable in Python or every non-final variable in Java italic.
The most important fact about colors in this theme is that they have global, cross-language semantics. Each color is assigned a specific meaning such as, namespace, global variable, interface, number, etc. This color is then used as exclusively as possible in this role across languages.
These interpretations, of course, have to be stretched depending on the particular language; however, I always aim to keep the meanings as true as possible.
Generally, darker colors are used for type variables and literals. Colors of medium brightness are used for various mundane identifiers, while the brightest colors are reserved for global concepts such as labels, constants, and builtins. Within each of these categories, colors are assigned to try make as many languages look as pleasing as possible given the semantic consistency constraint.
The perceptual uniformity of the primary colors ensures that even within this framework, for any given language the balance of tones looks rather nice, if not the best it could if colors had free per-language semantics.