🌌 rigel.nvim

A Neovim Lua port of the Rigel colorscheme

Dark, starry blue theme inspired by the star Rigel ✨

Features

• Full Treesitter support (@keyword, @string, @function, etc.)
• LSP semantic token highlights
• Plugin support:
  • Aerial, ALE, Alpha, Barbar, Blink, nvim-cmp, Bufferline
  • Codeium, Copilot, Supermaven
  • DAP, Dashboard, Flash, FZF Lua, Grug Far
  • GitGutter, Gitsigns, Diffview, Neogit, Octo
  • Glyph Palette, Headlines, Render Markdown, Vimwiki
  • Hop, Leap, Sneak, Illuminate, Yanky
  • Indent Blankline, Indentmini, Rainbow Delimiters
  • Lazy, Mason, Lspsaga, Navic, Neo-tree, nvim-tree
  • Neotest, Noice, Notify, Scrollbar, Sidekick, Snacks
  • Telescope, Treesitter Context, Trouble, Which-key
  • Mini modules: animate, clue, completion, cursorword, deps, diff, files, hipatterns, icons, indentscope, jump, map, notify, operators, pick, starter, statusline, surround, tabline, test, trailspace
  • Lualine, Toggleterm
• Transparent background option
• Italic and Bold toggle options
• Vim legacy syntax fallback

Installation

lazy.nvim

{
  "tan-wei/rigel.nvim",
  lazy = true,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require("rigel").setup {
      transparent = false,  -- Set to true for transparent background
      italic = true,        -- Enable italic for comments
      bold = true,         -- Enable bold for some groups
    }
  end,
}

Usage

:colorscheme rigel

Configuration

require("rigel").setup {
  transparent = false,
  italic = true,
  bold = true,
}

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
transparent	boolean	false	Transparent background
italic	boolean	true	Italic for comments
bold	boolean	true	Bold for some groups

Terminal Colors

The theme also sets 16 terminal colors for a consistent experience inside Neovim's terminal.

Credits

• Alexander Keliris — Original Rigel colorscheme for Vim
• Estilo — Used by the original project for color generation

Migration Reference

This port is inspired by the migration pattern of:

• doom-one.nvim — Lua port from vim colorscheme with treesitter support
• solarized.nvim — Lua port of classic Solarized with treesitter

License

MIT

Palette

Color	Hex	Description
bg	#002635	Dark blue background
bg_dark	#001a25	Darker editor bg
bg_alt	#00384d	Alt background
fg	#e6e6dc	Warm white foreground
fg_alt	#b7cff9	Light blue (alt fg)
comment	#77929e	Muted blue-gray
red	#c43060	Errors, exceptions
orange	#f08e48	Constants, identifiers
yellow	#ffcc1b	Search highlights
green	#9cf087	Strings
blue	#1c8db2	Keywords, statements
blue_light	#7eb2dd	Functions
purple	#c694ff	Object keys, modules
magenta	#fb94ff	Debug, todo
teal	#00ffff	Titles, special comment