A few themes for the helix editor. Most of them are direct ports of existing themes.
The included themes generally follow these rules:
- Medium contrast and saturation
- Balanced use of different colors (easily discernable syntax)
- Not too many colors
For preview images see: PREVIEWS.md
- Edge
- Port of
sainnhe/edge(MIT)
- Port of
- Everforest
- Port of
sainnhe/everforest(MIT) - Added customized high contrast version
- Port of
- Gruvbox Material
- Port of
sainnhe/gruvbox-material(MIT) - Includes
material,mixandoriginalvariants
- Port of
- Kanabox
- Experimental mashup of Kanagawa (MIT) and Gruvbox Material (MIT)
- Sonokai
- Port of
sainnhe/sonokai(MIT)
- Port of
The latest build of the main branch can be downloaded from the GitHub releases page here.
The release date and commit on the releases page point to an old version. However,
build.tar.gzis always up to date.
User themes can be added to the themes subdirectory of the config location (for example ~/.config/helix/themes on Linux, or C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/helix/themes on Windows).
To "install" a theme simply copy it into that directory (you may have to create it if it doesn't exist yet). Alternatively you can symlink the whole themes directory.
If you are unsure where the config path is located on your machine, run hx --health and look for Config file: ... at the top. You can read more about themes in the Helix docs here.
Themes are split into a color scheme or "mapping" ("constants are purple") and one or more palettes ("purple is #b39df3").
Each theme is built by simply merging the scheme with one of the corresponding palettes.
You can generate all themes by running build.sh from the root of the repository.
Or just generate a single one:
cat "schemes/gruvbox" "palettes/gruvbox/material_dark_medium" > "theme.toml"On Windows you can run the shell script (or cat command above) from the git bash that comes with git or use the executable directly (<git path>/usr/bin/sh.exe build.sh).
