tokyonight-simple

A Neovim colorscheme that pairs the Tokyonight Storm palette with the alabaster.nvim philosophy: most code stays uncolored, and the few things that do get color actually mean something.

Philosophy

Inspired by alabaster.nvim:

"Syntax highlighting should help you read code, not turn it into a rainbow."

Only these get a real color:

What	Color
Comments	muted blue-grey, italic
Strings	green
Numbers / booleans / constants	orange
Diagnostics, errors, search	semantic colors
Git / diff / UI chrome	semantic colors

Everything else — keywords, types, variables, functions, operators, punctuation, parameters, properties — uses the default foreground. Function and constructor definitions are bold instead of colored.

Install

lazy.nvim

{
  dir = "/path/to/tokyonight-simple", -- or a git url once you publish it
  name = "tokyonight-simple",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("tokyonight-simple")
  end,
}

packer.nvim

use {
  "you/tokyonight-simple",
  config = function() vim.cmd.colorscheme("tokyonight-simple") end,
}

Manual: drop the repo in ~/.config/nvim/pack/colors/start/tokyonight-simple/, then :colorscheme tokyonight-simple.

Layout

colors/
  tokyonight-simple.lua        -- entry point for :colorscheme
lua/tokyonight-simple/
  init.lua                     -- load()
  palette.lua                  -- Tokyonight Storm colors
  highlights.lua               -- highlight groups

Tweaking

All colors live in lua/tokyonight-simple/palette.lua. To change what's colored vs. plain, edit lua/tokyonight-simple/highlights.lua — the file is organized by section (Editor UI, Syntax, Treesitter, LSP, Diagnostics, Diff, Git, plugins).

Credits

• Palette: folke/tokyonight.nvim (Storm variant)
• Philosophy: p00f/alabaster.nvim