For a number of weeks, I ran vim with syntax off. It was quite nice, with only two annoyances:

• Bright white on jet black was a bit off-putting.
• There were cases when I did miss the lack of color, vimdiff for example.

Therefore, I aimed to find or create a colorscheme to solve these two issues.

The result is very much based on the pencil colorscheme, which is surprising because it's a very colorful colorscheme, but:

• It uses a very sane approach to defining and setting colors
• It has nice background and foreground colors
• In the areas where I do want color, I like how it colors things

• Use your preferred plugin manager
• Add "pbrisbin/vim-colors-off" as a plugin

:colorscheme off

Supports both background=light and background=dark.

• g:colors_off_a_little: Set to 1 to bring back a little color, here and there. Default 0.

Plugin fails to update: we recently switched our default branch; this can confuse some existing checkouts. The solution is to remove and re-add the plugin. How do to that depends on the plugin manager you use.

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