Darkbox

Overview

My gruvbox theme, with a pure black background

Key Features

• Pure Black Background: Preventing eyestrain during prolonged screen time.

• Gruvbox Inspired: Only the very best warm colorscheme, revamped for contrast.

• Neovim First: First class support for neovim, with treesitter support built in.

Development Highlights

First, this project could not have been possible without the help of previous theme projects such as gruvbox.nvim. Major kudos to everyone who helped write that plugin. Using existing code as reference from this project dramatically sped up development and made matters easy.

On top of that, working with lua was delightful, and there were no roadblocks or glaring issues which prevented me from completion. Neovim’s tight integration with lua is a game changer compared to something like VimScript. Overall, I found the whole experience simply perfect.

Challenges & Roadblocks

One thing I am not proud of, is how contrast has turned out. At the moment, the gruvbox dark colorscheme that inspired darkbox, isn’t taking into account the contrast change from the background #282828 to #000000. This, can show up as a bit washed out to the careful eye in certain code blocks where multiple colors clash together. I intend to work on this in a future release. The fix will be to darken the color contrast to more closely match to the pure black background.

Summary

This is it! This is the theme I am going to use for most likely the rest of my programming life. I have always had a gruvbox themed desktop, but no background image. This resulted in an interesting combo, and where the spark for this idea came from. I’m a bit biased, but I love it and hope someone else does too. The github link can be found here :D