Using Vim with light or white background color scheme

Question

When using Vim with on a terminal with a light or white background, most color schemes are subtly broken. How can I fix this? Is it possible to use a color scheme which is designed for a light or a white background?

How can I chose a vim colorschemes which uses white/or lightgrey as background color?

Solution 1

Solarized For Vim python code files:

or

More work has been put into this than your average color scheme.

Solution 2

I use Proton on a daily basis. I love it.

Solution 3

I prefer this one: habiLight

By the way: For an overview of colorschemes available for Vim see vimcolorschemetest. Go to section "Browse by File Type" an select the file type for which you want to see the examples.

Solution 4

I'm not sure if it is gauche to suggest one's own color scheme, but I do genuinely prefer to a broad range of light-background schemes that I've tried, whether coding in Python or not: mayansmoke.

Example screenshot:

Solution 5

My personal favorite is Elflord. However you might like pyte, I have tried that and found it to my own liking. Desert and desert256 are more in the brown range, but you may like those as well. But my best suggestion for you is earendel. Good luck finding the right ones for you, if you need a list of all of them, I think this is where I found mine:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?&script_type=color%20scheme&order_by=rating&show_me=20&result_ptr=0

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