Kara

Kara (meaning "Dark" or "Black" in Turkish) is a dark Neovim colorscheme that goes easy on your eyes, written in Lua.

✨ Features

• Dark theme optimized for long coding sessions
• Comprehensive plugin support including Snacks.nvim, Mini.nvim, TreeSitter, LSP, and more
• Semantic highlighting with modern TreeSitter support
• Customizable via on_highlights callback
• Italic support for comments, keywords, and booleans
• Simple color palette with just 3 gray shades for easy maintenance
• Transparent background option

📦 Installation

Using lazy.nvim

{
  "utkayd/kara.nvim",
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require("kara").setup()
    vim.cmd("colorscheme kara")
  end,
}

Using packer.nvim

use {
  "utkayd/kara.nvim",
  config = function()
    require("kara").setup()
    vim.cmd("colorscheme kara")
  end
}

Manual Installation

1. Clone this repository into your Neovim config directory:

   git clone https://github.com/utkayd/kara.nvim ~/.config/nvim/pack/plugins/start/kara.nvim

2. Add to your init.lua:

   require("kara").setup()
   vim.cmd("colorscheme kara")

⚙️ Configuration

Kara can be customized using the setup() function:

require("kara").setup({
  italic_comments = "italic",     -- Enable italic comments (or false)
  italic_keywords = "italic",     -- Enable italic keywords (or false)
  italic_booleans = "italic",     -- Enable italic booleans (or false)
  italic_functions = false,       -- Disable italic functions (or "italic")
  italic_variables = false,       -- Disable italic variables (or "italic")
  transparent_background = false, -- Disable transparent background (or true)

  -- Customize individual highlight groups
  on_highlights = function(highlights, colors)
    -- Example: Disable italic comments
    highlights.Comment.italic = false

    -- Example: Change function color
    highlights["@function"].fg = colors.blue

    -- Example: Make cursor line more subtle
    highlights.CursorLine.bg = colors.bg2
  end
})

🖥️ Using with Ghostty Terminal

Kara includes a theme file for Ghostty, the modern GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. To use the Kara colorscheme in Ghostty:

1. Copy the theme file to your Ghostty themes directory:

   mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
   cp kara.ghostty ~/.config/ghostty/themes/kara

2. Enable the theme in your Ghostty config (~/.config/ghostty/config):

   theme = kara
   

Alternatively, you can directly include the theme configuration in your Ghostty config file by copying the contents of kara.ghostty.

The Ghostty theme uses the same color palette as the Neovim colorscheme, ensuring a consistent visual experience across your editor and terminal.

🎨 Color Palette

Color	Hex	Usage
Foreground	#DFE0EA	Main text color
Background	#2b2e36	Editor background
Background (Visual)	#3d4f6d	Visual selection, cursor line
Purple	#6a4c93	Special highlights
Pink	#D895C7	Keywords, labels
Red	#E85A84	Built-in variables, errors
Red2	#D95555	Alternative red
Orange	#E0828D	Constants
Orange2	#FAB387	Numbers, built-in functions
Yellow	#EED49F	Properties, warnings
Green	#A6DB95	Strings, success messages
Green2	#52b788	Alternative green
Blue	#7EB7E6	Functions, types
Blue2	#6CAEC0	Operators, secondary blue
Gray1	#6B7A94	Comments, borders, inactive elements
Gray2	#8B9AAF	Line numbers, delimiters, secondary text
Gray3	#C6D0E0	Active elements, identifiers

Semantic Color Usage

• Keywords (local, function, if, return): Pink
• Functions: Blue
• Properties/Fields: Yellow
• Variables: Gray3 (light)
• Constants: Orange
• Strings: Green
• Numbers: Orange2
• Comments: Gray1 (dark)

🔌 Plugin Support

Kara includes built-in support for popular Neovim plugins:

Core Neovim

• TreeSitter (modern @ syntax)
• LSP (Language Server Protocol)
• Diagnostics
• Diff
• Markdown

UI Plugins

• Snacks.nvim: Dashboard, Picker, Input, Indent, Footer, StatusColumn, Win, Image
• Mini.nvim: All Mini plugins (icons, hipatterns, diff, statusline, tabline, starter, pick, files, clue, deps, notify, map, jump, indentscope, cursorword, surround, test, trailspace, completion, animate, operators)
• Telescope: Fuzzy finder
• Trouble: Diagnostics list
• WhichKey: Key binding helper
• NvimTree: File explorer
• Dashboard: Start screen

Completion

• nvim-cmp
• Blink.cmp

Git Integration

• Gitsigns
• GitGutter
• Diffview
• Neogit

Other

• indent-blankline
• vim-illuminate
• Startify
• Flutter Tools

📁 Project Structure

kara/
├── colors/
│   └── kara.lua    # Colorscheme entry point
├── lua/
│   └── kara/
│       └── init.lua # Main module with setup and highlights
└── README.md

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

💡 Acknowledgments

Built with inspiration from the Neovim colorscheme ecosystem, especially Catppuccin and other modern themes.

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Note: This colorscheme is designed for Neovim with termguicolors enabled. Make sure you have vim.o.termguicolors = true in your configuration.