A muted, elegant dark color theme with warm undertones and a soft lavender identity.
Built for Neovim, VS Code, terminals, tmux, and CLI tools.

• Single source of truth — every color lives in palette.json, all outputs are generated
• WCAG AA contrast — validated at build time, never ships unreadable text
• 15 Neovim plugin integrations — Telescope, cmp, gitsigns, mini.nvim, noice, trouble, flash, snacks, and more
• Treesitter + LSP semantic tokens — full highlighting with 450+ groups
• 13 terminal/CLI targets — Kitty, Alacritty, WezTerm, Ghostty, iTerm2, foot, Windows Terminal, tmux, fzf, bat, delta, lazygit, OpenCode
• Transparent mode — use your terminal's background
• Configurable italics — toggle italics for comments and keywords

Lavender #b8a0e0 keywords, primitives	Rose #d0a0b8 operators, flow	Peach #e8b4a0 types, components	Sage #a0d4a8 strings, additions
Sky #8cc0e0 functions, props	Teal #88c0b8 tags, escape	Ember #c49080 errors, deletions	Honey #c4b080 numbers, warnings

Backgrounds & foregrounds

Swatch	Name	Hex	Role
	Crust	#0a0814	Deepest background
	Mantle	#0e0c18	Status bars, borders
	Base	#12101e	Editor background
	Surface 0	#1e1a2c	Floats, selections
	Surface 1	#262236	Active UI elements
	Surface 2	#302c42	Scrollbars, subtle UI

Swatch	Name	Hex	Role
	Text	#d8d0e4	Primary text
	Subtext	#b0a8c4	Secondary text
	Overlay	#8a8498	UI elements
	Comment	#7e7896	Comments

{
  "danfry1/lume",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require("lume").setup()
    vim.cmd("colorscheme lume")
  end,
}

use {
  "danfry1/lume",
  config = function()
    require("lume").setup()
    vim.cmd("colorscheme lume")
  end,
}

All options are optional — defaults work out of the box.

require("lume").setup({
  transparent = false, -- set to true to use your terminal's background
  italics = true,      -- set to false to disable italic comments/keywords
  palette_overrides = { -- override base palette colors before they cascade to all groups
    foregrounds = { text = "#c8c8d8" },   -- softer foreground
    accents = { lavender = "#a890d0" },   -- tweak any accent
  },
  custom_highlights = function(colors, variant)
    -- colors contains: backgrounds, foregrounds, accents, ansi, special
    -- variant is "dark" (or "light" when a light theme is added)
    return {
      Normal = { bg = "#1E1F2E" },
      MiniDiffSignAdd = { fg = colors.accents.sage },
    }
  end,
})

palette_overrides accepts a table or a function. When a function, it receives the full palette and variant, and should return a table of overrides:

palette_overrides = function(colors, variant)
  return {
    foregrounds = { text = "#c8c8d8", subtext = "#a0a0b0" },
  }
end,

Palette overrides are applied first — all built-in highlight groups and custom_highlights will see the modified palette.

Highlight groups are included for these plugins (loaded automatically, no config needed):

Preview on vscodethemes.com · Search for "Lume" in the Extensions Marketplace, or install from the command line:

code --install-extension DanielFry.lume-color-theme

cd editors/vscode
npx @vscode/vsce package
code --install-extension lume-color-theme-*.vsix

Search for "Lume" in the Zed extension marketplace, or install locally:

# Copy to Zed's local themes directory
mkdir -p ~/.config/zed/themes
cp editors/zed/themes/lume.json ~/.config/zed/themes/

Then select Lume from the theme picker (cmd+k cmd+t).

Prefer not to run curl? You can also clone the repo and copy the files from terminals/ manually.

curl -o ~/.config/kitty/lume.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/terminals/kitty/lume.conf

include lume.conf

curl -o ~/.config/alacritty/lume.toml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/terminals/alacritty/lume.toml

import = ["~/.config/alacritty/lume.toml"]

mkdir -p ~/.config/wezterm/colors
curl -o ~/.config/wezterm/colors/lume.toml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/terminals/wezterm/lume.toml

config.color_scheme = "Lume"

curl -o /tmp/lume.itermcolors https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/terminals/iterm2/lume.itermcolors
open /tmp/lume.itermcolors

mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
curl -o ~/.config/ghostty/themes/lume https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/terminals/ghostty/lume

theme = lume

curl -o ~/.config/foot/lume.ini https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/terminals/foot/lume.ini

include=~/.config/foot/lume.ini

curl -o "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\lume.json" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/terminals/windows-terminal/lume.json

Via TPM (recommended)

# ~/.tmux.conf
set -g @plugin 'danfry1/lume'
run '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'

# In ~/.tmux.conf
run-shell /path/to/lume/tmux/lume.tmux

Prefer not to run curl? You can also clone the repo and copy the files from cli/ manually.

curl -o ~/.config/fzf/lume.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/cli/fzf/lume.sh

# ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
source ~/.config/fzf/lume.sh

curl -o "$(bat --config-dir)/themes/lume.tmTheme" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/cli/bat/lume.tmTheme
bat cache --build

--theme="Lume"

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/cli/delta/lume.gitconfig >> ~/.gitconfig

[core]
  pager = delta

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/cli/lazygit/lume.yml >> "$(lazygit --print-config-dir)/config.yml"

mkdir -p ~/.config/opencode/themes
curl -o ~/.config/opencode/themes/lume.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danfry1/lume/main/cli/opencode/lume.json

{
  "theme": "lume"
}

palette.json is the single source of truth for all colors. All theme files are generated from it.

bun install          # install dependencies
bun run generate     # regenerate all outputs from palette.json
bun test             # run tests
bun run validate     # check WCAG AA contrast ratios
bun run check        # verify generated files are up to date
bun run typecheck    # typecheck TypeScript

Please run bun run generate and commit the results before opening a PR.

MIT