Parchment

Parchment is an editor theme for Vim and Emacs, inspired by Acme and Leuven. You might like it if you prefer light colorschemes but think black-on-white is too hard on your eyes, or if you find most colorschemes too busy.

Deprecation Notice

This theme is deprecated and will not be receiving further updates. The author is no longer using vim, and has switched to modus-themes.

Alternative themes you may wish to migrate to include acme-theme for Emacs users, or acme-colors for Vim users.

Screenshots

Installation

Emacs

MELPA

After enabling installation of MELPA packages, install parchment-theme with M-x package-install. Load it using load-theme.

Or if you are using use-package (strongly recommended), simply add the following to your init.el:

(use-package parchment-theme
  :ensure t
  :config (load-theme 'parchment t))

Manual

To install parchment-theme for Emacs manually instead, first clone the repository to your local system:

mkdir -p ~/.emacs.d/themes
git clone https://gitlab.com/ajgrf/parchment ~/.emacs.d/themes/parchment

Then add the following to your init.el or .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes")
(load-theme 'parchment t)

Vim

Parchment can be installed in the same way as most other vim plugins and colorschemes. If you don’t have a preferred method of installing vim plugins, I recommend using pathogen to install parchment. Once pathogen is set up, just clone this repo into your bundle directory:

git clone https://gitlab.com/ajgrf/parchment ~/.vim/bundle/parchment

Terminal Colors

If your terminal does not support true colors, you will need to use a matching terminal theme, and ensure that it does not use bright colors for bold text. The following X resources accomplish that for xterm and urxvt:

*background:           #ffffea
*foreground:           #000000

*color0:               #000000
*color1:               #880000
*color2:               #005500
*color3:               #663311
*color4:               #004488
*color5:               #770077
*color6:               #007777
*color7:               #eeeecc
*color8:               #eaeaea
*color9:               #ffeaea
*color10:              #eaffea
*color11:              #eeee9e
*color12:              #cceeff
*color13:              #ffeaff
*color14:              #eaffff
*color15:              #ffffea

URxvt*intensityStyles: false
XTerm*boldColors:      false

License

The files in this repository are licensed under a permissive ISC license. See the LICENSE file for more details.