🌙 moonlight.nvim

A beautiful Neovim theme with authentic Moonlight VSCode colors.

This theme is built using the structure from koalight.nvim but with the exact color palette from the original Moonlight VSCode theme, providing a consistent experience across editors.

✨ Features

• 🎨 Authentic Moonlight colors - Uses the exact color palette from Moonlight VSCode
• 🌳 TreeSitter support - Full semantic highlighting with both legacy and modern syntax
• 💡 LSP integration - Beautiful diagnostics, references, and code lens
• 🔌 Extensive plugin support - 20+ popular plugins pre-configured
• 📝 Italic variants - Elegant italics for comments, keywords, and functions
• 🎯 Consistent experience - Matches Moonlight VSCode theme exactly

📦 Installation

lazy.nvim

{
  'michelegera/moonlight.nvim',
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require('moonlight').setup()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme 'moonlight'
  end,
}

packer.nvim

use {
  'michelegera/moonlight.nvim',
  config = function()
    require('moonlight').setup()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme 'moonlight'
  end
}

vim-plug

Plug 'michelegera/moonlight.nvim'

" After plug#end()
lua << EOF
require('moonlight').setup()
EOF
colorscheme moonlight

🚀 Usage

Lua

-- Enable the colorscheme
require('moonlight').setup()
vim.cmd.colorscheme 'moonlight'

Vimscript

colorscheme moonlight

🎨 Color Palette

The theme uses the authentic Moonlight color palette:

Color	Hex	Usage
Background	#222436	Main background
Foreground	#c8d3f5	Main text
Red	#ff757f	Errors, deletions
Green	#c3e88d	Strings, additions
Yellow	#ffc777	Warnings, constants
Blue	#7cafff	Functions, titles
Purple	#c4a2ff	Keywords, types
Cyan	#78dbff	Operators, links
Orange	#ff966c	Numbers
Pink	#fca7ea	Special characters
Indigo	#af9fff	Hints

🔌 Supported Plugins

Core Plugins

• nvim-treesitter - Syntax highlighting
• nvim-lspconfig - LSP configurations
• gitsigns.nvim - Git decorations

UI Enhancements

• lualine.nvim - Statusline
• bufferline.nvim - Buffer/tab line
• dashboard-nvim - Start screen
• alpha-nvim - Alternative start screen
• indent-blankline.nvim - Indent guides
• nvim-notify - Notification manager

Navigation & Search

• telescope.nvim - Fuzzy finder
• neo-tree.nvim - File explorer
• nvim-tree.lua - Alternative file explorer
• aerial.nvim - Code outline
• hop.nvim - Jump to any location
• leap.nvim - Alternative motion plugin

Code Assistance

• nvim-cmp - Completion engine
• which-key.nvim - Keybinding hints
• trouble.nvim - Diagnostics list

Other

• rainbow-delimiters.nvim - Colorful brackets

🌑 Lualine Integration

To use the Moonlight theme with Lualine:

require('lualine').setup {
  options = {
    theme = 'moonlight'
  }
}

🎯 Comparison with Koalight

While this theme uses koalight's excellent structure, it differs in several key ways:

Feature	moonlight.nvim	koalight.nvim
Color Source	Moonlight VSCode (exact)	Older Moonlight interpretation
Background	#222436	#212337
Foreground	#c8d3f5	#e4f3fa
Green	#c3e88d (softer)	#2df4c0 (bright teal)
Blue	#7cafff	#04d1f9
Purple	#c4a2ff	#b4a4f4
Plugin Support	20+ plugins	12 plugins

🛠️ Configuration

Currently, the theme works out of the box with sensible defaults. Configuration options may be added in future releases.

🙏 Credits

• Moonlight VSCode Theme by @atomiks - Original color palette
• koalight.nvim by @Koalhack - Theme structure inspiration
• Colorgen - Theme generation tool

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

🌟 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues or pull requests.

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Enjoy the moonlight! 🌙✨