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Gruvstone

A minimal Neovim colorscheme inspired by Alabaster and based on the Gruvbox palette.

Gruvstone highlights only a small set of semantic elements and keeps everything else quiet, using warm, low-contrast colors suitable for long coding sessions.

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Design

Gruvstone intentionally limits highlighting to a few reliable categories:

1. Strings
2. Constants (numbers, booleans, symbols)
3. Comments
4. Global definitions

Everything else uses the default text color.

Principles

• No keyword highlighting (if, else, function, etc.)
• No bold or italic styles
• Subtle background tinting for highlighted elements (Alabaster BG style)
• Only highlights things the parser can identify reliably

The goal is readability, not decoration.

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Installation

Using a plugin manager:

-- example with lazy.nvim
{
  "xoconoch/gruvstone",
  priority = 1000,
}

Then enable it:

:colorscheme gruvstone

or in Lua:

vim.cmd.colorscheme("gruvstone")

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Credits

• Color palette: Gruvbox
• Philosophy: Alabaster by Niki Tonsky

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License

MIT