blackbeard-colorscheme

A modern Neovim colorscheme with dark and light variants, heavily inspired by Gruvbox, TokyoNight, Kanagawa, and Cyberdream.

Preview

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Overview

blackbeard-colorscheme is a lightweight, customizable colorscheme designed for Neovim. It offers two variants:

• blackbeard: A dark theme with a pirate-inspired, Gruvbox-like aesthetic.
• blackbeard_light: A light theme for bright environments.

This is a pure colorscheme—no plugins, no configurations, just colors.

Installation

Add blackbeard-colorscheme to your Neovim setup using your preferred plugin manager:

With lazy.nvim

-- ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/blackbeard.lua
return {
  "cvusmo-dev/blackbeard-colorscheme",
  lazy = false, -- Load immediately to ensure the colorscheme is available
  config = function()
    require("blackbeard").setup({
      theme = "dark", -- "dark" or "light"
    })
  end,
}

With packer.nvim

use {
  "cvusmo-dev/blackbeard-colorscheme",
  config = function()
    require("blackbeard").setup({
      theme = "dark", -- "dark" or "light"
    })
  end,
}

Then apply the desired variant:

• For dark theme:

:colorscheme blackbeard

• For light theme:

:colorscheme blackbeard_light

Features

• Dark and Light themes inspired by popular colorschemes like Gruvbox, Kanagawa, TokyoNight, and Cyberdream
• Optimized for readability and productivity.
• Supports Treesitter, LSP, and common Neovim plugins out of the box.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to all who have created colorschmes for neovim. These four have been some of my favorites to use and their code was instrumental in setting up my own colorscheme. Thank you again!

• Kanagawa
• Cyberdream
• Tokyonight
• Gruvbox

Related Projects

For a plugin version with theme toggling and integrations (e.g., Alacritty,DWM), see blackbeard-nvim

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