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Onehalf

Clean, vibrant and pleasing color schemes for Vim, Sublime Text, iTerm, gnome-terminal and more.

From sonph·Updated June 11, 2026·View on GitHub·

A color scheme for Sublime Text, (Neo)Vim, iTerm, and more. Based on Atom's One. The project is written primarily in Vim script, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2016. It has gained significant community traction with 1,893 stars and 231 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: alacritty, colorscheme, gnome-terminal, iterm, iterm2.

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A color scheme for Sublime Text, (Neo)Vim, iTerm, and more. Based on Atom's One.

dark
light
desktop_dark
desktop_light

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Features

                        light     dark
0   normal  black       #383a42   #282c34
1   normal  red         #e45649   #e06c75
2   normal  green       #50a14f   #98c379
3   normal  yellow      #c18401   #e5c07b
4   normal  blue        #0184bc   #61afef
5   normal  magenta     #a626a4   #c678dd
6   normal  cyan        #0997b3   #56b6c2
7   normal  white       #fafafa   #dcdfe4
            foreground  #383a42   #dcdfe4
            background  #fafafa   #282c34

Screenshots

All screenshots are available in the screenshots folder.

Installation & Usage

Vim

Install with Vundle then set colorscheme and g:airline_theme:

Bundle 'sonph/onehalf', {'rtp': 'vim/'}
colorscheme onehalflight
let g:airline_theme='onehalfdark'

Or if you are using lightline, set g:lightline.colorscheme:

let g:lightline.colorscheme='onehalfdark'

If you want your vim and terminal colors to match exactly, you must enable true colors in vim.

For more details and manual installation, see vim README.

Sublime Text 2/3

Install with Package Control.

For more details and manual installation, see sublime text README.

iTerm2

  1. Download the theme files in the iterm folder.
  2. Import the color schemes:
  • Either double click on the files to import.
  • Or open iTerm Preferences > Profiles > Colors > Color Presets > Import
    then select the downloaded files.
  1. Select Preferences > Profiles > Colors > Color Presets > One Half Light (Dark).

OS X Terminal.app

Download the files in the terminal folder and simply open the files. Terminal.app will
automatically recognize and import the color schemes.

Pywal

Copy the files in the wal/colorschemes folder under the matching
directories in ~/.config/wal/colorschemes, then enable the schemes (-l is for light theme):

> wal -l --theme one-half-light
# or
> wal --theme one-half-dark

Contributing / Troubleshooting / Bug Reports

Contributions are welcome. Feel free to open an issue
if you have problems installing and using the color schemes.

Contributors

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