The Ascendancy colour scheme aims to provide a comforting spectrum of background and foreground shades, complimented by soft but regal colours.
The palette has a small bias towards golden colours without creating a sense of washed out overexposure.
| colour | base0X | hex | terminal equivalent | base 16 styling guidelines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| base00 | #282828 |
---- | Default Background | |
| base01 | #212f3d |
--- | Lighter Background (Used for status bars, line number and folding marks) | |
| base02 | #504945 |
-- | Selection Background | |
| base03 | #928374 |
- | Comments, Invisibles, Line Highlighting | |
| base04 | #bdae93 |
+ | Dark Foreground (Used for status bars) | |
| base05 | #d5c7a1 |
++ | Foreground, Caret, Delimiters, Operators | |
| base06 | #ebdbb2 |
+++ | Light Foreground (Not often used) | |
| base07 | #fbf1c7 |
++++ | Lightest Foreground (Not often used) | |
| base08 | #c03900 |
red | Vars, XML Tags, Markup Link Text, Markup Lists, Diff Deleted | |
| base09 | #fe8019 |
orange | Integers, Boolean, Constants, XML Attributes, Markup Link Url | |
| base0A | #ffcc1b |
yellow | Classes, Markup Bold, Search Text Background | |
| base0B | #b8bb26 |
green | Strings, Inherited Class, Markup Code, Diff Inserted | |
| base0C | #8f3f71 |
cyan | Support, Regular Expressions, Escape Characters, Markup Quotes | |
| base0D | #458588 |
blue | Functions, Methods, Attribute IDs, Headings | |
| base0E | #fabd2f |
magenta | Keywords, Storage, Selector, Markup Italic, Diff Changed | |
| base0F | #b59b4d |
darkred | Deprecated, Opening/Closing Embedded Language Tags, e.g. <?php ?> |
This scheme is also hosted on the tinted-theming/schemes repository; it can easily be applied to your environment by using any utility that references tinted-theming for colour schemes.
For example, on NixOS, the scheme can be conveniently applied to your environment using utilities such as stylix or base16.nix.
Inspired by the Gruvbox Dark, Medium scheme as a starting point.
