Show HN: Top Neovim/iTerm theme pairings (color compatibility scoring)

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8 months ago

I made a list of Neovim/iTerm theme pairings that look cohesive when used together. Instead of picking by eye, I scored them by color palette similarity (nearest-neighbor matching) and balance across backgrounds, highlights, and syntax colors.

Top 10 Pairings:

• Everblush × nightly.nvim

• Tomorrow Night × rusty

• Rose Pine × Sakura.nvim

• Challenger Deep × DarkScene.vim

• Atom One Dark × onepro

• Black Metal (Marduk) × nolife.nvim

• Mellow × oldtale.nvim

• Nvim Dark × monoglow.nvim

• Gruvbox Dark × gruvsquirrel.nvim

• Cursor Dark × nordic.nvim

Links:

Video gallery: https://youtube.com/shorts/4803KinmpVw?si=QcoMprBlrDFWVq83

Theme list (TSV with scores): https://github.com/samesense/colors/blob/main/data/end/top10...

Methods: https://rpubs.com/samesense/theme_colors

Screenshots: https://github.com/samesense/colors/tree/main/data/end/scree...

Note: Obvious one-to-one matches (Catppuccin→Catppuccin, Nord→Nord) aren’t included.