kryptamine/gruber-darker-renaissance

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2026-10-25

UPDATED

2026-10-30

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gruber-darker-renaissance

A dark, minimal Neovim colorscheme based on gruber-darker

A pure black background with near-white names. Each hue has one shade: yellow keywords, green strings, niagara blue functions, quartz types and constants, warm ash gray comments. The accents share a lightness and saturation range, so none of them stands out over the others.

Needs Neovim 0.10 or newer and nothing else.

Installation

lazy.nvim

{
  "kryptamine/gruber-darker-renaissance",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require("gruber-darker-renaissance").setup({})
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("gruber-darker-renaissance")
  end,
}

Without a plugin manager

vim.pack.add({ "https://github.com/kryptamine/gruber-darker-renaissance" })
vim.cmd.colorscheme("gruber-darker-renaissance")

vim.pack needs Neovim 0.12; on older versions clone the repository into a pack/*/start/ directory on your packpath.

Configuration

Call setup() before loading the colorscheme. Your options are merged over the defaults.

Defaults

require("gruber-darker-renaissance").setup({
  bold = true,
  italic = {
    strings = true,
    comments = true,
    operators = false,
    folds = true,
  },
  invert = {
    signs = false,
    tabline = false,
    visual = false,
  },
  undercurl = true,
  underline = true,
  transparent = false, -- leave the window background to the terminal; floats stay opaque
  terminal_colors = true, -- set `g:terminal_color_*`
  sidebars = { "qf", "help" }, -- filetypes with the darker sidebar background
  plugins = {}, -- every integration is on; set one to false, e.g. `snacks = false`
  on_colors = function(colors) end,
  on_highlights = function(highlights, colors) end,
})

Overriding colors and highlights

require("gruber-darker-renaissance").setup({
  on_colors = function(c)
    c.syntax.keyword = c.red
  end,
  on_highlights = function(hl, c)
    hl.FzfLuaTitle = { fg = c.black, bg = c.green }
    hl.FzfLuaDirPart = "Comment" -- a string value is a link
  end,
})

c holds the raw palette (c.yellow, c.niagara, c.ash) and the semantic colors built from it (c.syntax.*, c.diag.*, c.git.*, c.bg_float); see palette.lua and colors.lua.

Floats and the completion menu share the editor's black background, so they read best with a border: set vim.o.winborder or the plugin's own border.

Extras

Themes for other tools, generated from the same palette, are in extras/. With lazy.nvim that is ~/.local/share/nvim/lazy/gruber-darker-renaissance/extras/.

• Alacritty: link extras/alacritty/gruber-darker-renaissance.toml somewhere and add it to general.import in alacritty.toml.
• btop: link extras/btop/gruber-darker-renaissance.theme into ~/.config/btop/themes/ and set color_theme = "gruber-darker-renaissance".
• fish: link extras/fish/gruber-darker-renaissance.theme into ~/.config/fish/themes/ and add fish_config theme choose gruber-darker-renaissance to config.fish.
• foot (1.24+): add include= with the path to extras/foot/gruber-darker-renaissance.ini to foot.ini.
• fzf (0.48+): point FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS_FILE at extras/fzf/gruber-darker-renaissance.txt.
• Ghostty: link extras/ghostty/gruber-darker-renaissance into ~/.config/ghostty/themes/ and set theme = gruber-darker-renaissance.
• git: add extras/git/gruber-darker-renaissance.gitconfig to include.path in ~/.gitconfig. diff-so-fancy reads the same colors.
• herdr: its config cannot include a file, so paste extras/herdr/gruber-darker-renaissance.toml into ~/.config/herdr/config.toml.
• kitty: link extras/kitty/gruber-darker-renaissance.conf into ~/.config/kitty/themes/ and run kitten themes, or include it from kitty.conf.
• lazygit: add extras/lazygit/gruber-darker-renaissance.yml to LG_CONFIG_FILE, which takes a comma-separated list of config files.
• starship: its config cannot include a file, so paste extras/starship/gruber-darker-renaissance.toml into starship.toml and set palette = "gruber-darker-renaissance".
• Windows Terminal: copy extras/windows-terminal/gruber-darker-renaissance.json into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Terminal\Fragments\gruber-darker-renaissance\ and pick "Gruber Darker Renaissance" in the color schemes.

Credits

Gruber Darker was made for GNU Emacs by Jason Blevins, after John Gruber's BBEdit theme. blazkowolf/gruber-darker.nvim was a big help while writing this one.