oxide for Vim

Where function meets form.

oxide for Vim. A dark colorscheme with monochrome UI, standard syntax highlighting, and additional Markdown, HTML, JSON, YAML, and TOML highlights.

Requires Vim 8.2+ with a true-color terminal, or gVim. No Lua or other plugins required. Terminal Vim needs set termguicolors; a 256-color fallback is not included.

Installation

vim-plug

Add this inside your existing plug#begin() / plug#end() block:

Plug 'oxidescheme/vim'

Run :PlugInstall, then add this after plug#end() in your vimrc:

syntax enable
set termguicolors
colorscheme oxide

Manual

Copy colors/oxide.vim to ~/.vim/colors/oxide.vim (create the directory if needed). On Windows, use ~/vimfiles/colors/oxide.vim.

Add this to your vimrc (~/.vimrc, or ~/_vimrc on Windows):

syntax enable
set termguicolors
colorscheme oxide

Configuration

Set options before colorscheme oxide. These are the defaults:

let g:oxide_transparent = 0
let g:oxide_italic_comments = 1
let g:oxide_terminal_colors = 1
let g:oxide_colors = {}

oxide_transparent removes the main and status-line backgrounds. oxide_terminal_colors sets the 16 ANSI colors used by newly opened :terminal windows.

Override palette colors by name:

let g:oxide_colors = {'teal': '#ed756e'}
colorscheme oxide

For individual highlights, use Vim's ColorScheme event:

augroup oxide_custom
  autocmd!
  autocmd ColorScheme oxide highlight Comment gui=NONE cterm=NONE
augroup END

Define the autocommand before loading the theme. Run :colorscheme oxide again after changing options.

Syntax detail depends on Vim's syntax files. Neovim Tree-sitter, LSP, and plugin integrations are not included.

Contributing

PRs welcome, including Vim plugin integrations and syntax improvements. Keep colors consistent with the canonical Neovim palette and follow the UI color guide.

Run the checks from the repository root:

vim -Nu NONE -n -i NONE -es -S test/theme.vim

Credits

• Port Creator: @jakmaz
• Current Maintainer: @jakmaz
• Contributors: See contributors list

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Copyright © 2026-present oxidescheme