Your favorite colorscheme for terminal vim with 256 colors [closed]

Question

I'm trying to find good looking colorscheme for vim (urxvt 256 colors) editor. There are a lot of good schemes for gvim but not for vim 256. For this moment I've only found jellybeans https://github.com/nanotech/jellybeans.vim which is almost identical if you use it in gvim. I also know about solarized though I don't like it very much. What's your suggestions? What are you using in terminals that support 256 colors for vim?

Answer 1

Gruvbox

Gruvbox is heavily inspired by badwolf, jellybeans and solarized.

Hybrid

A dark colourscheme for Vim that combines the:

colour palette from Tomorrow-Night.

syntax group highlighting scheme from Jellybeans

Vim code from Solarized

Answer 2

For me the best color schema for vim is Monokai:

You can download it here: Vim-Monokai

It's a very readable schema and it already exists for iTerm2 ;-)

Answer 3

Plugins like CSApprox can take the GUI color definitions and convert them to a closely matching 256-color cterm color palette for high-color terminals. This helps with colorschemes that otherwise only pick from the bland default 16-color terminal color palette, or only provide GUI color definitions.

Another approach is taken by csexact, which modifies the (supported) terminal's palette to exactly match Vim's GUI colors.

With either approach, you can take any GUI-only colorscheme that you like and use it in the high-color terminal, too.