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title = "My Neovim Custom Theme"
date = "2025-10-17"
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I use Neovim as my main IDE and text editor. Since I started using Neovim, I've been using the [Catppuccin](https://catppuccin.com/) theme, until one day I was blessed by stumbling across [vimcolours](https://vimcolors.org/) and realised I can create my own horrible theme to strain my eyes.

<img src="neovim_horrid.png" alt="Horrid Theme" style="width:1200px;height:600px;">

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. 

<img src="neovim_purple.png" alt="Better Theme" style="width:1200px;height:600px;">

## 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`). 

![colors directory](colors_directory.png)

Then you can put these two lines into the `init.lua` file, replacing my `gay7.vim` with whatever your theme is: 
```lua
vim.opt.termguicolors = true
vim.cmd("colorscheme gay7")
```

## My Colours:
The colours I used were taken from the colour scheme of my website:
```scss
$white: #FFFFFF;
$black: #000000;
$purple: #962FFE;
$pink: #FFA0E3;
$periwinkle: #EBD7FF;
$yoghurt: #d1e6ff;
$red: #FF3030;
$orange: #FF7930;
$yellow: #FFF530;
$green: #45FF30;
$cyan: #30FFEA;
$blue: #30A9FF;
```