My Neovim Custom Theme

2025-10-17

I use Neovim as my main IDE and text editor. Since I started using Neovim, I've been using the Catppuccin theme, until one day I was blessed by stumbling across vimcolours and realised I can create my own horrible theme to strain my eyes.

After five minutes of this I realised I actually don't like my eyes being strained, so I decided to make something that was easier for them to look at. I made the background grey, and added more purple because that's my favourite colour.

How?

Okay so the way this works is to download the theme.vim file (after customising your theme) into a colors directory within your neovim configuration directory (in ~/.config/nvim).

Then you can put these two lines into the init.lua file, replacing my gay7.vim with whatever your theme is:

vim.opt.termguicolors = true
vim.cmd("colorscheme gay7")

My Colours:

The colours I used were taken from the colour scheme of my website:

$white: #FFFFFF;
$black: #000000;
$purple: #962FFE;
$pink: #FFA0E3;
$periwinkle: #EBD7FF;
$yoghurt: #d1e6ff;
$red: #FF3030;
$orange: #FF7930;
$yellow: #FFF530;
$green: #45FF30;
$cyan: #30FFEA;
$blue: #30A9FF;