🌙 nitepal.nvim

Two-tone Neovim colorscheme built from Palenight soul and Tokyonight structure.

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nitepal.nvim is a deeply tunable Neovim colorscheme written in Lua. It began as a personal Palenight port (from the JetBrains ecosystem) and evolved with the clean structure and composability of folke/tokyonight.nvim.

It ships with two fully maintained variants:

• 🌑 Nitepal: Deep, cool dark tones with crisp contrast.
• ☀️ Litepal: Soft, warm light tones with low glare.

⚠️ Warning: This is an early release. Highlight groups and colors are subject to change as I tweak them for my daily workflow.

✨ Features

• Treesitter + LSP: Rich syntax + semantic tokens.
• Plugin Coverage: Highlights for Telescope, Gitsigns, Bufferline, NvimTree/Neo-tree, cmp/Blink, Noice, Lspsaga, Trouble, WhichKey, Dashboard, and more.
• Lualine Integration: Built-in lualine.nvim theme.
• Extras: Matching palettes for WezTerm and Ghostty.
• Customizable: Contrast + transparency controls for UI surfaces.

📸 Gallery

Dark Mode (Nitepal)

PHP	Telescope

Light Mode (Litepal)

Lua	Rust

📦 Installation

lazy.nvim

{
  "jascha030/nitepal.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require("nitepal").setup({
      -- your configuration comes here
      -- or leave it empty to use the default settings
    })
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("nitepal")
  end,
}

packer.nvim

use { 
    'jascha030/nitepal.nvim',
    config = function() 
        vim.cmd('colorscheme nitepal') 
    end 
}

vim-plug

Plug 'jascha030/nitepal.nvim'

" After loading plugins:
colorscheme nitepal

✅ Usage

-- Dark / light selectors
vim.cmd.colorscheme('nitepal')
vim.cmd.colorscheme('litepal')

-- Or call directly (respects vim.o.background when style = false)
require('nitepal').colorscheme()
-- require('nitepal').colorscheme('light')

⚙️ Configuration

Configure the theme by calling setup. These are the defaults:

require('nitepal').setup({
    -- 'dark' | 'light' | false.
    -- When false, it respects vim.o.background (recommended for toggling).
    style = false, 

    transparent = {
        background = false, -- Disable editor background (use terminal bg)
        sidebars = false,   -- Transparent sidebar windows (e.g. NvimTree)
        floats = false,     -- Transparent floating windows
        popups = false,     -- Transparent popup windows
    },

    -- Enable contrast for sidebars and floating windows
    contrast = true,

    -- Enable italics for comments and keywords
    italics = true,

    colors = {
        -- Override specific color codes defined in nitepal.palette
        overrides = {},
        -- Add new custom colors
        custom = {},
    },
})

Note: italics and colors.{overrides,custom} are currently defined but not yet applied in the code. They are reserved for upcoming customization.

🧩 Statusline (Lualine)

A lualine theme ships with the plugin. Set it in your lualine config:

require('lualine').setup({
    options = {
        theme = 'nitepal', -- or 'litepal'
    }
})

🚀 Extras

Terminal emulator configs live in extras/:

• WezTerm: extras/wezterm/
• Ghostty: extras/ghostty/

Litepal terminal configs use slightly different light backgrounds (#e7e9ef / #e7e9ee) than the core palette. Adjust if you want strict parity.

🎨 Palette

Name	Hex	Color
white	#969ac9
bright_white	#fffcfc
alt_white	#6183bb
black	#32466e
bright_black	#465a82
dark_black	#1f2335
alt_black	#232235
gray	#737aa2
gray1	#6172b0
gray2	#545c7e
gray3	#3b4261
red	#ea1479
bright_red	#f47cb4
dark_red	#d4007c
alt_red	#ff007c
orange	#f05033
bright_orange	#ff8000
yellow	#ffcc00
bright_yellow	#ffae31
green	#2da44e
bright_green	#9ece6a
dark_green	#5d7b23
alt_green	#8fd742
cyan	#0a6e81
bright_cyan	#1abc9c
alt_cyan	#41a6b5
blue	#3d59a1
bright_blue	#8494FF
dark_blue	#364A82
alt_blue	#467CDA
magenta	#6f42c1
bright_magenta	#A59BFF
alt_magenta	#5f5fec
purple	#9d7cd8
bright_purple	#bb9af7
alt_purple	#C792EA
pink	#efc9f2
none	NONE

Variants

Variant	Role	Hex	Color
Light	Background	#e0e1eb
Light	Foreground	#444a73
Dark	Background	#1e2030
Dark	Foreground	#c8d3f5

🙏 Acknowledgements

• folke/tokyonight.nvim: The codebase structure and logic heavily inspired this project. It is the gold standard for Lua colorschemes.
• Material Theme UI: The original visual inspiration for the color palette, specifically the Palenight variant.

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Made with 🍬 and 🚬 by Jascha030