Atelier colorschemes
For the construction of these colorschemes, Solarized colorscheme stood as a model, and Base16 Builder was a building tool. Like in Solarized, the colorschemes come in a light – and in a dark background version. It’s really just variations on the same idea, but each with it’s own color-value relations, interdependent on each other and their base (background-)color, giving each colorscheme it’s own character.
More about the thought process behind some of the documented updates and changes made halfway during the time of creation.
Forest
Base color for Forest is orange, and the idea is to have brownish colors for the background, not unlike a colorscheme like “Birds of Paradise”, but a bit muddier on the browns, less red and more greyed out, like clay.
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Plateau
Base color for Plateau is red, and here the background-colors have these chocolate brown/grey colors for the background, while the “color-wheel colors” are quite desaturated. A warm palette; no real green in here, (see also “Cave”).
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Heath
Base color for Heath is magenta, and here the background-colors have these cool-red colors for the background, but then obviously toned down quite a bit ….
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Cave
Base color for Cave is violet, and although the colors are regularly spaced out, there is no real green in here, (see also “Plateau”) a “cool-warm” palette; not for the claustrophobic.
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Sulphurpool
Base color for sulphurpool is purple, and here the background-colors have these grey purplish colors for the background. Darkest background-color needed not to be as desaturated as some of the warmer palettes, giving this colorscheme it’s otherworldly character. Yellow and green are close, because of avoidance of too greenish hues. In all: easy on the eye.
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Lakeside
Base color for Lakeside is blue, which means bluish colors for the background. Coolest colorscheme of the bunch, works very well in the light-background variant, for example on a webpage (with Prism, or Higlight.js, e.g.).
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Savanna
Base color for Savanna is green, it has greenish colors for the background. “Color-wheel colors” are desaturated considerably, giving this colorscheme a rather understated appeal and, dear I say it, a ‘natural’ look and feel.
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Seaside
Base color for Seaside is green: greenish colors for the background. Very saturated color-palette; comes popping at you.
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Estuary
Base color for Estuary is yellow-green, no real blue, red or purple in here, (red goes to the orange), only the yellow/greenish colors are saturated. Colors are all very close in terms of (mid-range) tonal-contrast (‘“grey value”). A bit of a poisonous colorscheme, be aware of the crocodiles …, they’re hiding in there.
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Dune
Base color for Dune is yellow, and then warm yellowish brown greyed colors for the background. A welcoming, soothing friendly but also bright, colorscheme.
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Downloads
All downloads can be found in the output folder.
Note: Visual Studio Code has it’s own dedicated implementation and repository). It’s on Visual Studio Marketplace as well. Looking for extensions within VS Code, search for atelier or atelier-vscode-themes.
For Sublime Text, go to Textmate folder, or download the zip-file directly.
For Vim with Pathogen you can clone the dedicated repo for this purpose in the ~/.vim/bundle directory like so:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/atelierbram/vim-colors_atelier-schemes.git
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/atelierbram/vim-colors_atelier-schemes.git
Demo
Lab
Credits
- Credits to Ethan Schoonover whose Solarized colorscheme was a model for these colorschemes
- And credits to Chris Kempson, whose Base16 Builder was used for conversion to the different output formats. It’s a remarkable building tool, and I would also recommend trying out the colorschemes he made with them.