The theme comes in three variants, “Soft Light”, “Medium Light” and “Hard Light”. Soft and Medium are even yellower. This is so often the case with Gruvbox themes. I just want a white background, is that so unusual? 🫠

(Yes, that’s a screenshot of my terminal with the theme applied. Yes, I am one of those monsters that use a terminal with light theme.)

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    As far as I’m aware, it started out with a Vim color scheme, which looks like this:


    https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

    And yeah, that’s just become a really popular theme, which got ported to virtually anything that can be themed.
    Personally, I really like the color palette, but not that so many takes on it have text that’s horrendously difficult to read…

    • juipeltje@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      Gruvbox is probably my favorite theme. I configured a handfull of themes for my rice but gruvbox and tokyonight are the ones i use the most. I’m a dark user though >:)

    • Botzo@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 hours ago

      “Hard” (high contrast) should use the bg0_h value for the background: #f9f5d7 or rgb(249,245,215).

      This is a light “off white”. If you have blue blocking mode or a night color mode enabled, the yellowing effect will be exaggerated.

      For what is worth, I don’t think gruvbox makes a good light theme because it’s pretty low contrast especially compared to a lot of more recent themes. I say this as a die hard gruvbox dark user.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        1·
        50 minutes ago

        I guess, what really bothers me here in particular is the extra low contrast. The background does actually use the correct color, that you point out. But the foreground/text color is #654735. That’s brown:

        Screenshot of a color picker, where the color is visible as brown. It's almost halfway in terms brightness and saturation towards an orange.

        I don’t know where that color comes from. None of the original Gruvbox colors are that. It is dubbed as a “Gruvbox Material” theme. I do have opinions about the new Material You styles having shit contrast. But I don’t believe, it’s supposed to be quite as terrible either.

        And well, yeah, I do usually end up modifying the Gruvbox themes to just set background to #ffffff, foreground to #000000, or vice versa for dark themes. It does work quite well IMHO, which is what makes it all the more frustrating that so many Gruvbox-like themes choose to go the other way.