⎔ Techbase.nvim

A colorscheme inspired by the aesthetics of Doom (1993) and Doom 2 (1994)

Variants

Name	Screenshot	Notes
entryway		Named for the first map of Doom II
techbase		Named after an aesthetic of Doom maps called "Techbase".
hellbound		Named after the first megawad I ever played and one of my favorites, Hellbound by Zoltán Sófalvi.
escape_velocity		High contrast variant of Hellbound, Compliant with WCAG AAA; Named after "Escape Velocity" by James Paddock, my personal favorite Doom track.
sw1comm		Named for a futuristic wall switch texture from the original DOOM texture set. Described as a "[f]ader with red/green LEDs on SHAWN wall", this texture displays the "off" state of the wall switch and is paired with the "on" state, SW2COMM.

Installation

Below are examples for installing and loading the color scheme. Call setup() before colorscheme when using non-default options.

vim.pack:

vim.pack.add({
  { src = "https://github.com/mcauley-penney/techbase.nvim" },
})

-- optional: configure before loading the colorscheme
require("techbase").setup({
  italic_comments = false,
  transparent = false,
  hl_overrides = {},
})

vim.cmd.colorscheme("techbase")

Lazy.nvim:

{
    "mcauley-penney/techbase.nvim",
    opts = {
      italic_comments = false,

      -- set to true to make the background, floating windows, statusline,
      -- signcolumn, foldcolumn, and tabline transparent
      transparent = false,

      -- allows you to override any highlight group for finer-grained control
      hl_overrides = {},
    },
    init = function() vim.cmd.colorscheme("techbase") end,
    priority = 1000
}

Important

To load the color scheme by default and use non-default options, you should load the options, then the scheme. This is how the template above is set up.

Plugins

Highlights

To override plugin highlights, use hl_overrides with the plugin highlight group name:

opts = {
  hl_overrides = {
    GitSignsAdd = { link = "Added" },
    VisualNonText = { fg = "#ff0000" },
  },
}

Lualine

Lualine uses a separate theme file and needs to be configured in lualine:

 require('lualine').setup {
  options = {
    theme = "techbase"
    -- ... your lualine config
  }
}

Extras

Matching color schemes are available for external tools:

• Ghostty
• iTerm2
• Kitty
• Tmux
• Warp
• Wezterm
• GNU Coreutils ls
• Zsh syntax highlighting

Please see those tools' respective documentation for how to use these configurations.

For GNU Coreutils ls, evaluate dircolors with the file for your variant:

eval "$(dircolors -b /path/to/techbase.nvim/extra/dircolors/dircolors-techbase)"

For zsh, source the file for your variant after loading your syntax-highlighting plugin. For example:

source /path/to/techbase.nvim/extra/zsh/techbase.zsh