A Lua-based colorscheme helper for Neovim that simplifies creating and customizing color schemes.
colorbuddy.nvim is a Neovim plugin written in Lua that assists developers in creating and customizing color schemes. It provides a programmatic API to define colors, highlight groups, and styles, simplifying the process of building and maintaining themes for the Neovim editor.
Neovim users and plugin developers who want to create or modify color schemes programmatically using Lua, especially those seeking more control and flexibility than traditional Vimscript-based theme systems.
It offers a modern, Lua-native approach to color scheme development with an intuitive API, relative color adjustments, and easy style combinations, making theme creation faster and more maintainable compared to manual configuration.
Your color buddy for making cool neovim color schemes
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Provides a clean, intuitive Lua interface for defining colors and groups, as demonstrated with Color.new() and Group.new() in the example, leveraging Neovim's built-in runtime.
Offers methods like :light() to modify colors programmatically, enabling easy creation of variations without hardcoding values, as shown in the Error group example.
Allows combining styles using arithmetic operators (e.g., styles.bold + styles.italic), giving fine-grained control over text appearance, illustrated in the italicBoldFunction group.
Includes predefined themes like 'colorbuddy' and 'gruvbuddy' for quick setup and inspiration, mentioned in the basic usage section.
Requires Neovim 0.9 or nightly, excluding users on older stable versions and potentially causing upgrade barriers, as noted in the README warning.
The transition to requiring Neovim 0.9 indicates past breaking changes, and users of old versions must pin to v1.0.0, suggesting instability and maintenance overhead.
Relies on community contributions via the wiki for extended themes, lacking the extensive pre-built collection of more established theme managers like tokyonight.nvim.