The original way to read.
Paper is an extremely legible, light colour palette “based on the colour of paper as found in various notebooks,” and originally created by Yorick Peterse. As a result, Paper is healthier for our eyes, making it the optimal choice for long-term viewing and a necessity in digital life.
Keeping to the minimalist spirit of the original vim
plugin, only the most essential information is differentiated with colour. By using fewer colours reminiscent of a multi-pen, only the important is clearly identified, further enhancing Paper’s legibility in many applications.
Please note that the palette has been designed with the following display properties in mind:
- An LCD/TFT display
- A display temperature range of 4000K-5200K
- A low display brightness
To submit application requests please raise an issue or feel free to contribute via a pull request. Cheers!
- Chrome
- Available as an extension on the Chrome Store.
- Firefox
- Available as an add on from Mozilla.
- Vieb (It’s pronounced ‘veep’ like ‘sheep’)
- Available out of the box: run
:colorscheme paper
or:colorscheme paper-compact
and enjoy.
- Available out of the box: run
File manager palettes are applied in line with exa
’s File Class Colours.
- Midnight Commander
- Installation
- Download the latest release here and place it in your
~/.local/share/mc/skins
folder- You may need to create this folder:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/mc/skins
- You may need to create this folder:
- Run
mc
; pressF9
, thenoa
, and selectpaper-true
as your skin - Remove your sunglasses (or don't 😎)
- Download the latest release here and place it in your
- Installation
- vifm
- Available via the vifm-colors repository.
- Bashtop
- Installation
- Download the latest release here and place it in your
~/.config/btop/themes
folder- You may need to create this folder:
mkdir -p ~/.config/btop/themes
- You may need to create this folder:
- Run
btop
, pressEsc
, open ‘Options’, and selectpaper
as your theme - Consider a lower SPF sun cream 🏖️
- Download the latest release here and place it in your
- Installation
- Alacritty
- Available with the alacritty-themes extension.
- Hyper
- Available via npm: simply run
hyper i hyper-paper
inside Hyper.
- Available via npm: simply run
- iTerm2
- Installation
- Download the latest release here
- Run
iTerm2
, press⌘,
, open ‘Profiles’ and select the ‘Colors’ tab - Click the ‘Color Presets’ drop-down, click ‘Import’ and select the
paper.itermcolors
file - Select ‘Paper’ from the ‘Color Presets’ drop-down
- Seek out the sun elsewhere ☀️
- Installation
- Kitty
- Installation
- Download the latest release here and place it in your
~/.config/kitty/
folder - Add
include ./paper.conf
to yourkitty.conf
- Enjoy!
- Download the latest release here and place it in your
- Installation
- Tilix
- Installation
- Execute the following command to download the theme:
wget -qO $HOME"/.config/tilix/schemes/paper.json" https://gitlab.com/samue1/paper-theme/-/raw/main/themes/tilix/paper.json
- Open
Tilix
and select ‘Paper Theme’ viaPreferences -> Default -> Color -> Color scheme
- Enjoy!
- Execute the following command to download the theme:
- Installation
- Obsidian
- Installation
- Download the latest release here
- Install the latest version of:
- @kepano’s Minimal Theme and Minimal Theme Settings plug in
- @mgmeyers’ Style Settings plug in
- Open
Style Settings
and importpaper-theme.json
- Enjoy!
- Installation
- (Neo)Vim
- The original Paper Theme plug-in c/o @YorickPeterse.
- Visual Studio Code
- Install via VS Marketplace c/o @18kimn (Nathan Kim).
Color | Normal | Bright | GNOME Terminal color index |
---|---|---|---|
Black | #000000 |
#555555 |
0, 8 |
Red | #CC3E28 |
#CC3E28 |
1, 9 |
Green | #216609 |
#216609 |
2, 10 |
Yellow | #B58900 |
#B58900 |
3, 11 |
Blue | #1E6FCC |
#1E6FCC |
4, 12 |
Purple | #5C21A5 |
#5C21A5 |
5, 13 |
Cyan | #158c86 |
#158c86 |
6, 14 |
White | #AAAAAA |
#AAAAAA |
7, 15 |
For the text color, highlight color, etc, use:
Color | Foreground | Background |
---|---|---|
Text | #000000 |
#F2EEDE |
Highlight | #000000 |
#D8D5C7 |
- This project would not be possible without Yorick’s work -- cheers mate!
- The Dracula project has provided useful starting places for the Chrome, Firefox, and Tilix themes.
- Tilix’ installation instructions were sourced from the Tilix-Themes project c/o @storm119.
- The light theme from the
vim-airline-themes
originally written in July, 2013 by @bling, provided the base forpaper.vim
. - The Kitty Theme was kindly contributed by @ryanerwin.
All source code in this repository is licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 2.0, unless stated otherwise. A copy of this license can be found in the file "LICENSE".