An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Vim color theme.
Designed for a fluent and clear workflow.
Based on the Nord color palette.
Nord Vim is a 16 colorspace theme build to run in GUI- and terminal mode with support for many third-party plugins and styles for lightline.vim and vim-airline.
Font: Source Code Pro 20px
NOTE: Nord Vim in terminal mode MUST be used with the associated terminal emulator theme in order to work properly!
Make sure to install one of the currently supported terminal themes listed below BEFORE installing Nord Vim.
Add Nord Vim to your .vimrc
for your favorite manager.
-
vim-plug
(recommended):Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim'
and run
:PlugInstall
. -
cd ~/.vim/bundle git clone git://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-vim.git
-
Plugin 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim'
and run
:PluginInstall
.
To install the latest development version vim-plug
support to specifiy the develop
branch:
Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'branch': 'develop' }
A explicit version can be installed via Git tags:
Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'tag': 'v0.7.0' }
Download the latest version or clone the repository and copy the nord.vim
theme file to your ~/.vim/colors
directory.
Use Nord Vim as your default color theme by adding it to your .vimrc
colorscheme nord
or change it on-the-fly by running :colorscheme nord
.
vim-plug
also provides options to enable it on-demand for specific languages:
" Activate Nord Vim when editing Java files
Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'for': 'java' }
or on specific events:
" Activate Nord Vim when toggling the NERDTree
Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim', { 'on': 'NERDTreeToggle' }
All options should be set before the activation command!
This option should only be enabled if your terminal emulator supports italics!
Can be enabled to support italic text.
Most terminals don't handle italics right so Nord disables italics for terminals by default while in GUI mode this option is enabled by default.
Set g:nord_italic
to 1
to enforce displaying italics.
let g:nord_italic = 1
This option only takes effect if the option for italic text support has been enabled!
Enable to italicize all comments.
To adhere to the Nord style guide this option is disabled by default.
It can be enabled by setting the g:nord_italic_comments
variable to 1
.
let g:nord_italic_comments = 1
Enables uniform activate- and inactive status lines using nord3
as background.
By default, Nord Vim uses a slightly brighter background for the current split buffer. This is designed to draw attention to the currently active buffer without being distracting.
If the user desires the backgrounds to be a uniform color, g:nord_uniform_status_lines
can be set to 1
:
let g:nord_uniform_status_lines = 1
Default status lines
Uniform status lines
This option should only be enabled if your terminal supports 24bit true color (16 million colors) and requires the termguicolors
option to be set is in ~/.vimrc
or via :set termguicolors
!
The comment brightness can be increased by 1 - 20 percent. It can be enabled by setting the g:nord_comment_brightness
variable to a number between 1
and 20
.
let g:nord_comment_brightness = 12
To adhere to the Nord style guide this option uses nord3
by default.
This is a reference table if users like to use the same increased contrast values as provided by the Nord Atom Syntax accessibility custom comment contrast theme setting which are calculated using the LESSCSS lighten
function.
Increased by | Calculated value |
---|---|
1% | #4e586d |
2% | #505b70 |
3% | #525d73 |
4% | #556076 |
5% | #576279 |
6% | #59647c |
7% | #5b677f |
8% | #5d6982 |
9% | #5f6c85 |
10% | #616e88 |
11% | #63718b |
12% | #66738e |
13% | #687591 |
14% | #6a7894 |
15% | #6d7a96 |
16% | #6f7d98 |
17% | #72809a |
18% | #75829c |
19% | #78859e |
20% | #7b88a1 |
More information about true color and the support in various terminals can be found in this gist.
By default, Nord Vim provides colorful backgrounds when used in diff mode vimdiff
/vim -d
.
This can be changed to nord1
as uniform diff background color by setting the g:nord_uniform_diff_background
variable to 1
.
let g:nord_uniform_diff_background = 1
Colorful backgrounds (default)
Uniform diff background
Nord Vim provides support for many third-party language- and UI plugins.
With custom separators and components using lightline's advanced configurations
lightline with default format and components
Detailed descriptions for supported plugins can be found in the project wiki.
Nord Vim contains optimized styles to achieve a consistent and uniform coloring across languages.
Detailed descriptions for supported languages can be found in the project wiki and in the Plugin Support section.
Please report issues/bugs, feature requests and suggestions for improvements to the issue tracker.