skift.nvim

A clean, dark Neovim colorscheme with strong syntax contrast, tasteful UI accents, and built-in support for common plugins.

Features

• Thoughtful palette built from HSL tokens
• Consistent editor, Treesitter, and LSP highlight groups
• Integrations for popular plugins (Telescope, cmp, blink.cmp, Neo-tree, GitSigns, and more)
• Optional transparent backgrounds
• Config hooks to override colors and highlight groups
• Included lualine theme

Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.8

Installation

lazy.nvim

{
  "https://codeberg.org/pnx/skift.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require("skift").setup({
      transparent = false,
      bold = true,
      italic = true,
      italic_comments = true,
    })
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("skift")
  end,
}

packer.nvim

use({
  "https://codeberg.org/pnx/skift.nvim",
  config = function()
    require("skift").setup()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("skift")
  end,
})

Configuration

Default config:

require("skift").setup({
  transparent = false,
  bold = true,
  italic = true,
  italic_comments = true,
  on_colors = function(colors)
    -- colors.accent = "#7aa2f7"
  end,
  on_highlights = function(highlights, colors)
    -- highlights.CursorLine = { bg = colors.bg_elevated }
  end,
})

Usage

:colorscheme skift

Lua equivalent:

vim.cmd.colorscheme("skift")

Lualine

Use the bundled lualine theme:

require("lualine").setup({
  options = {
    theme = "skift",
  },
})

Cache

skift.nvim caches resolved highlights for faster startup. If you are iterating on the theme and want to clear cache:

require("skift").clear_cache()

Plugin Integrations

Skift includes highlight definitions for:

• GitSigns
• Telescope
• nvim-cmp
• blink.cmp
• indent-blankline (Ibl*)
• which-key
• Trouble
• nvim-tree
• Neo-tree
• Lazy
• Mason
• Noice
• nvim-notify
• mini.nvim statusline groups
• Snacks
• Flash
• Treesitter context
• Dashboard/Alpha
• render-markdown
• Oil
• fzf-lua

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome.