lectio

A muted colorscheme with light and dark modes, inspired by a photo taken during an evening walk.

Originally designed for nvim, with ports for Ghostty, Zellij, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs.

Palette

Name	Dark	Light	Uses
ground	#1d221c	#f6f1e7	Normal background
woods	#252b24	#eee8db	CursorLine, StatusLine, panels
woods +1	#2e352c	#e5dfd0	Pmenu, floating windows
woods +2	#3a4437	#d8d1bf	borders, folds, separators
text	#d7d3c6	#3c443a	main text, variables, identifiers, properties
text, dimmed	#b1ae9f	#5c6457	operators, punctuation, delimiters
distance	#79836f	#6f7666	comments, hints, doc strings
twilight	#5d6556	#a3a08e	line numbers, whitespace, backdrops, inlay hints
sun	#dfa257	#a06316	functions, headings, titles, search, warnings
afterglow	#d69a78	#a5522f	constants, numbers, booleans, builtins, escapes
sky	#8fb4c9	#3a6c8c	types, structs, links, info diagnostics, git change
cloud	#8497ab	#57697e	keywords, statements, imports, visual selection
field	#94a878	#54703c	strings, characters, git add, success states
ember	#cf7060	#b04b3c	errors, deletions, debug, spell

Install

With lazy.nvim:

{
  "wesdoyle/lectio",
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("lectio")
  end,
}

With vim-plug:

Plug 'wesdoyle/lectio'
colorscheme lectio

Or with no plugin manager at all:

git clone https://github.com/wesdoyle/lectio \
  ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/themes/start/lectio

Usage

:colorscheme lectio

lectio has a single light/dark mode and follows your 'background' setting.

Options

require("lectio").setup({
  transparent = false, -- omit the Normal background
  italics = true,      -- italic comments
  overrides = nil,     -- function(palette) -> table of highlight groups
})
vim.cmd.colorscheme("lectio")

Example override:

overrides = function(p)
  return {
    CursorLine = { bg = p.bg2 },
    ["@keyword"] = { fg = p.cloud, italic = true },
  }
end

Other tools

The same palette is generated for a handful of other tools and lives in extras/.

Tool	Install
Zellij	cp extras/zellij/lectio.kdl ~/.config/zellij/themes/
Ghostty	cp extras/ghostty/lectio-* ~/.config/ghostty/themes/
VS Code	cp -r extras/vscode/lectio ~/.vscode/extensions/lectio-theme
JetBrains	./scripts/build-jetbrains-plugin.sh, then install the zip from disk

Each still needs a line of config to select the theme — see extras/README.md.

Development

nvim -l scripts/contrast.lua
nvim --headless -l scripts/smoke.lua
./test/preview.sh
./test/preview.sh light