token

Token is a warm, muted Neovim 0.12+ colorscheme that is written in Lua. Dark and light variants, no configuration. There is no setup function. Load it and it works. The idea is simple: a theme you never configure is a theme you stop thinking about.

Terminal themes for Ghostty, fish, delta, tmux and others are generated from the same palette file, so everything matches without extra work.

Features

• Dark and light variants, switching at runtime via vim.o.background
• Treesitter capture groups for accurate syntax highlighting
• LSP semantic token highlights
• LSP diagnostic signs, virtual text, and underlines
• Diff highlights for buffers and signs
• Legacy syntax group coverage for non-Treesitter filetypes
• Terminal color support (ANSI colors 0–15)
• Lualine theme included
• Contrib themes for external tools and apps generated from the same palette

Showcase

Dark	Light

Install

-- vim.pack (Neovim 0.12+)
vim.pack.add({ 'https://github.com/ThorstenRhau/token' })

-- lazy.nvim
{ 'ThorstenRhau/token' }

Usage

vim.cmd.colorscheme('token')

Respects vim.o.background. Set dark or light before loading the colorscheme, or change it at runtime to switch variants.

Compilation

Token works out of the box without compilation. For faster startup, you can pre-compile the theme into bytecode:

:TokenCompile

This writes compiled dark and light variants to stdpath('cache')/token/. On next load the cached bytecode is used instead of the dynamic highlight path.

Rerun :TokenCompile after updating the plugin. If the cache becomes stale or corrupt it is deleted automatically and the dynamic path is used as fallback.

Supported plugins

• blink.cmp
• claudecode.nvim
• diffview.nvim
• flash.nvim
• fugitive.vim
• fzf-lua
• gitsigns.nvim
• hlchunk.nvim
• indent-blankline.nvim
• lazy.nvim
• lualine.nvim
• markview.nvim
• mason.nvim
• mini.clue
• mini.icons
• mini.statusline
• mini.surround
• neo-tree.nvim
• neogit
• noice.nvim
• nvim-cmp
• nvim-dap-ui
• nvim-tree.lua
• oil.nvim
• render-markdown.nvim
• snacks.nvim
• telescope.nvim
• todo-comments.nvim
• treesitter-context
• trouble.nvim
• vim-matchup
• which-key.nvim

Contrib themes

Pre-generated themes for external tools and apps. Auto-generated from the palette; rebuild after palette changes with make contrib.

Tool	Files	Usage
bat	contrib/bat/token-{dark,light}.tmTheme	Copy to bat themes dir, run bat cache --build
Blink Shell	contrib/blink/token-{dark,light}.js	Paste the raw token-dark.js or token-light.js URL in Appearance > Themes > New Theme
Carapace	contrib/carapace/token-{dark,light}.json	Merge the selected carapace object into ~/.config/carapace/styles.json
ChatGPT desktop	contrib/chatgpt/token-{dark,light}.txt	Paste the share string into Settings > Appearance > Import for the matching theme variant
delta	contrib/delta/token.gitconfig	Include from ~/.gitconfig, set features = token-dark in [delta]
emacs	contrib/emacs/token-{dark,light}-theme.el	Copy to ~/.emacs.d/themes/, then (load-theme 'token-dark t)
fish	contrib/fish/token.theme	Copy to ~/.config/fish/themes/, then run fish_config theme choose token
fzf	contrib/fzf/token-{dark,light}.{fish,zsh}	Source the matching Fish or Zsh file to append theme colors to FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS
ghostty	contrib/ghostty/token-{dark,light}	Copy to ~/.config/ghostty/themes/, then set theme = dark:token-dark,light:token-light
GtkSourceView (gedit, GNOME Text Editor)	contrib/gtksourceview/token-{dark,light}.xml	Copy to ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-{4,5}/styles/, then pick the scheme in the editor's preferences
iTerm2	contrib/iterm2/token-{dark,light}.itermcolors	Import from Profiles > Colors > Color Presets
kitty	contrib/kitty/token-{dark,light}.conf	include /path/to/token-dark.conf in kitty.conf
lazygit	contrib/lazygit/token-{dark,light}.yml	Merge into ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml
Obsidian	contrib/obsidian/	Copy to <vault>/.obsidian/themes/Token, restart Obsidian, select Token, then set the accent color to #bc6a49
ripgrep	contrib/ripgrep/token-{dark,light}.ripgreprc	RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/token-dark.ripgreprc
starship	contrib/starship/token-{dark,light}.toml	Append to starship.toml, set palette = "token"
Sublime Text	contrib/sublime/token-{dark,light}.sublime-color-scheme	Copy to Packages/User/, set "color_scheme" in Preferences
tmux	contrib/tmux/token-{dark,light}.conf	source-file /path/to/token-dark.conf in tmux.conf
VS Code	contrib/vscode/	Run scripts/install_vscode_theme.sh, then select Token Dark or Token Light
Windows Terminal	contrib/windows-terminal/token.json	Copy schemes into settings/fragments, then set "colorScheme": { "dark": "Token Dark", "light": "Token Light" }
Zsh	contrib/zsh/token-{dark,light}.zsh	Source the selected file from .zshrc for matching ls, completion, fzf-tab, and prompt helper colors

License

BSD 3-Clause