🎆 Mono Glow

A mostly monochrome colorscheme with a touch of glowing.

Monoglow Z screenshot Insert mode Visual mode Monoglow Z (default) Palette

[!NOTE]

More 📷 screenshots here

✨ Features

Supports the latest Neovim

0.9.0 features.

Terminal colors.
Supports ~all major~ plugins (see below).

> [!NOTE]

Currently available Plugins and Extras are mostly based on what I use, but feel free

to open an issue or a PR to suggest a new one!

🎨 Supported Plugins

| Plugin | Source | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | blink.cmp | blink-cmp | | dashboard-nvim | dashboard | | flash.nvim | flash | | gitsigns.nvim | gitsigns | | markview.nvim | markview | | mason.nvim | mason | | neo-tree.nvim | neo-tree | | nvim-cmp | cmp | | nvim-window-picker | nvim-window-picker | | oil.nvim | oil | | telescope.nvim | telescope | | which-key.nvim | which-key |

🍭 Extras

| Tool | Extra | | -------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | | Ghostty | extras/ghostty | | Helix | extras/helix | | Kitty | extras/kitty | | Vim | extras/vim | | VS Code | extras/vscode | | WezTerm | extras/wezterm | | Zed | extras/zed |

📦 Installation

Install the theme with your preferred package manager, such as folke/lazy.nvim:

{
  "wnkz/monoglow.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  opts = {},
}

🚀 Usage

vim.cmd[[colorscheme monoglow]]

colorscheme monoglow

" There are also colorschemes for the different styles. colorscheme monoglow-z colorscheme monoglow-lack colorscheme monoglow-void colorscheme monoglow-light

🎨 Palette

See PALETTE.md for all styles (z, lack, void, light) with WCAG contrast ratios.

🪓 Overriding Colors & Highlight Groups

How the highlight groups are calculated:

colors are determined based on your configuration, with the ability to

override them using config.on_colors(colors).

These colors are utilized to generate the highlight groups.
config.on_highlights(highlights, colors) can be used to override highlight

groups.

For default values of colors and highlights, please consult the z, lack, void, and light palettes, as well as the base highlights.

Changing Colors

require("monoglow").setup({
  -- Change the "glow" color
  on_colors = function(colors)
    colors.glow = "#fd1b7c"
  end
})

Monoglow Pink Glow

Changing Highlight Styles

You can customize styles (italic, bold, etc.) for any highlight group using on_highlights.

Note: on_highlights replaces the entire highlight definition. To preserve

existing properties (like fg), include them in your override or use vim.tbl_extend.

require("monoglow").setup({
  on_highlights = function(hl, c)
    -- Override with full definition (recommended)
    hl["@function"] = { fg = c.syntax.func_def, italic = true, bold = true }
    hl.Boolean = { fg = c.syntax.boolean, bold = true, italic = true }
    hl["@keyword"] = { fg = c.syntax.keyword, italic = true }    -- Or use vim.tbl_extend for partial overrides
    hl.Comment = vim.tbl_extend("force", hl.Comment, { bold = true })
  end,
})

See lua/monoglow/groups/base.lua and lua/monoglow/groups/treesitter.lua for all available highlight groups.

🍭 Extras

Extra color configs for Ghostty, Kitty, Helix, Vim, VS Code, WezTerm, and Zed can be found in extras/. To use them, refer to their respective documentation.

Terminal Colors

☀️ Light Theme

A light variant is also available for those who prefer it.

Monoglow Light screenshot

🔥 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

About

To build the colorscheme, I took everything I liked about the "colors" of slugbyte/lackluster.nvim, I added the amazing touch of glow and bright operators from Aliqyan-21/darkvoid.nvim, and I used folke/tokyonight.nvim for the code structure.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

Third-Party Acknowledgments

Portions of this project include code derived from tokyonight.nvim, which is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Inspiration for colors and arrangement comes from lackluster.nvim and darkvoid.nvim, both licensed under the MIT License.

See the NOTICE file for attributions and details.

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