bpineau/oak

A calming vim/neovim colorscheme

oak, a calming vim colorscheme

Hey there, this is oak a brown-ish, high-contrast-ish colorscheme I made for myself.

It is pretty early stage, and I might both not use it in the end, or drastically change it.

LSP virtual text background

Set g:oak_virtualtext_bg to 1 before loading the colorscheme to have a prominent background for warning and error messages

Oak statusline

oak can provide a default statusline (similar to the one in the image) if you specify g:oak_statusline in your config file before loading oak.

This statusline is different for active and inactive windows.

This statusline has gitsigns.nvim integration by default, but should not error if the plugin is not installed.

Inspiration and goals

I was a heavy dracula user before making this theme, so the high-contrast feel of dracula was actually what I was aiming for.

But, after digging a bit for themes, I found that brown themes are actually pretty nice too and wanted to try them out. But non of them was as high contrast as I liked, thus oak.

One of the goals will be to have that compatible with both tree-sitter and nvim lsp implementation.

Acknowledgement

Thanks @clason for the help building this, the original code in colors/oak.vim is taken from his gists.

Versioning

oak versions are simple to follow : any change to the color codes will lead to a new version. For example between v0.19 and v0.20, a tiny change was made on the second darkest brown (trunk2 in our convention), thus creating a new version.

This convention is made in order for people to, if they don't agree with one color change, stay with this version of the palette.