^{Posterpole.nvim}

Simple nvim theme with pastel colors which try to emulate an old retro poster vibe

Main theme

Posterpole-term theme

Other implementations

Posterpole Repo

• Alacritty
• Kitty
• Wezterm
• Ghostty
• VScode
• Zellij

Features

• 🪟 Transparency
• 🎨 Color/colorless bg variants
• ☀︎ Configurable brightness and saturation
• 👾 posterpole-term variant which can be used in
  terminals without $TERM=xterm-256color support ( Macos terminal for example )
• 🌗 Adaptive brightness based on current hour

Installation

Lazy:

{
  "ilof2/posterpole.nvim",
  priority=1000,
  config = function ()
    local posterpole = require("posterpole")
    posterpole.setup({
      -- config here
    })
    vim.cmd("colorscheme posterpole")
    
    -- This function create sheduled task, which will reload theme every hour
    -- Without "setup_adaptive" adaptive brightness will be set only after every restart
    posterpole.setup_adaptive()
  end
}

Configuration

-- Default
require("posterpole").setup({
  transparent = false,
  colorless_bg = false, -- grayscale or not
  dim_inactive = false, -- highlight inactive splits
  brightness = 0, -- negative numbers - darker, positive - lighter
  selected_tab_highlight = false, --highlight current selected tab
  fg_saturation = 0, -- font saturation, gray colors become more brighter
  bg_saturation = 0, -- background saturation
  colors = {
    posterpole = {}, -- { mainRed = {hex = "#550000", cterm = 95} }
  },
  adaptive_brightness = {
    enabled = false,
    max_brightness = 1, -- maximum brightness for the day
    min_brightness = -6, -- minimum brightness for the day
    daylight_duration = 12, -- how long is daylight
    noon_time = 12 -- hour when the theme will have maximum brightness
  },
  lualine = {
    transparent = true
  }
})

Colors

You can override all colors that are used in colorscheme

Important

posterpole-term color values should be integer in range 0-256

Note

brightness, fg_saturation, and bg_saturation settings are not applied to custom colors Possibly it will added in the future

256 colors helpers:

• 256 color cheat sheet
• xterm256 color picker

Colors list which can be overwritten:

{
  mainGray
  mainBlack
  mainYellow
  mainOrange
  mainWhite
  mainGreen
  mainCyan
  mainBlue
  mainPurple
  mainPink
  mainRed

  -- scales
  deepRed
  deepGreen
  brightGreen
  brightGray

  -- main bg colors
  bgColor
  bgColorNC
  bgDarkColor
  bgDarkColorless
  bgColorlessColor
  bgColorlessNC
}

Plugins Support (full or partial)

• render-markdown.nvim
• telescope.nvim
• nvim-dap-ui
• mini.files
• vim-fugitive
• trouble.nvim
• neo-tree.nvim
• neotest
• cmp
• lua-fzf
• aerial
• lualine
• notify
• beacon.nvim
• which-key.nvim

Plans

1. More plugins support
2. Custom highlight groups

Inspiration

• vague.nvim
• kanagawa.nvim
• builtin habamax

Known issues

1. Color scheme with dim_inactive=true and transparent=true looks crappy. The best solution for now - is not to combine these 2 options