hackerman.nvim

A Neovim colorscheme for translucent black terminals: neon green syntax, bright green-tinted greys, teal diagnostics, and purple for the magic bits. Normal has no background, so your terminal's translucency (e.g. Ghostty's background-opacity) shows through.

Preview

To see every color in action, open the demo files with the theme active:

nvim preview/demo.ts    # types, decorators, classes -- the full palette
nvim preview/demo.lua   # the lua flavor
nvim preview/demo.diff  # diff/git colors

Or audit every highlight group at once with :so $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim.

Palette

role	color
keywords	#39ff14	neon
functions	#00ff9f	spring
strings	#8affc1	mint
numbers, constants	#b7ff5c	lime
types	#5fffd7	aqua
booleans, builtins, preproc	#c46bff	purple
info / hint	#17f5d3	teal
errors / warnings	#ff4d4d / #ffe75c
normal text	#d7ffe0	pale mint
comments	#a5c9b8	bright grey, on purpose

Install

Any plugin manager works; the theme is a single self-contained file with no dependencies and no setup().

Built-in vim.pack (Neovim 0.12+):

vim.pack.add { 'https://github.com/OwaisQuadri/hackerman.nvim' }
vim.cmd.colorscheme 'hackerman'

lazy.nvim:

{
  'OwaisQuadri/hackerman.nvim',
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    vim.cmd.colorscheme 'hackerman'
  end,
}

Or skip the plugin manager entirely: copy colors/hackerman.lua into ~/.config/nvim/colors/ and run :colorscheme hackerman.

Requirements

• termguicolors enabled (the default in modern Neovim)
• The translucent background comes from your terminal, not the theme. In Ghostty, for example: background-opacity = 0.85. In an opaque terminal you just get solid black, which also looks fine.

Covered

Standard syntax groups, treesitter, LSP semantic tokens and references, diagnostics, diffs, gitsigns, Telescope, which-key, fidget, and :terminal ANSI colors (0–15).

License

MIT