Noconfetti

A minimal color theme for Neovim and WezTerm, adapted from flatwhite-syntax by biletskyy.

Philosophy

"If everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted."

Noconfetti follows the principles outlined in tonsky's "Syntax Highlighting" article:

• Minimal colors - Only 4-5 colors for actual visual lookup
• Highlight what matters - Strings, constants, comments, top-level definitions
• Leave most code neutral - Keywords, variables, function calls remain unhighlighted
• Make comments visible - They contain important information

What Gets Highlighted

• ✅ Strings and constants
• ✅ Function and method definitions
• ✅ Comments (with background)
• ✅ Variable declarations (in some languages)

What Stays Neutral

• ❌ Keywords (if, for, while, def, function, class)
• ❌ Variable and function usage
• ❌ Operators
• ❌ Most punctuation

Installation

Neovim

Using lazy.nvim:

{
  'tkgalk/noconfetti',
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    vim.cmd('colorscheme noconfetti-light')
    -- or vim.cmd('colorscheme noconfetti-dark')
  end,
}

Using mini.deps:

local add = MiniDeps.add

add('tkgalk/noconfetti')
vim.cmd('colorscheme noconfetti-light')
-- or vim.cmd('colorscheme noconfetti-dark')

Using vim.pack.add() (Neovim 0.12+):

-- Add to your init.lua
vim.pack.add('noconfetti')
vim.cmd('colorscheme noconfetti-light')
-- or vim.cmd('colorscheme noconfetti-dark')

WezTerm

Add to your ~/.wezterm.lua:

local wezterm = require 'wezterm'

return {
  color_scheme_dirs = { '/path/to/noconfetti/extras/wezterm' },
  color_scheme = 'noconfetti-light',
  -- or
  -- color_scheme = 'noconfetti-dark',
}

Or manually copy the TOML files from extras/wezterm/ to your WezTerm color schemes directory (colors/ next to your wezterm.lua).

Screenshots

Light Theme

Dark Theme

Supported Languages

I mainly added support (and tested) the languages I personally use, or which I know to be popular and that have easily installable LSPs to test with.

Legend: ✅ Fully supported | ⚠️ Partially supported | ❌ Not supported

• ✅ C
• ✅ CSS
• ✅ HTML
• ✅ JavaScript
• ✅ Lua
• ✅ Markdown
• ✅ Python
• ✅ Ruby
• ✅ Shell/Bash
• ✅ TOML
• ✅ Terraform/HCL
• ✅ TypeScript
• ✅ YAML
• ⚠️ C#
• ⚠️ C++ (no LSP semantic tokens support; inconsistent)
• ⚠️ Go (no LSP semantic tokens support; odd behaviour)
• ⚠️ Java
• ⚠️ Kotlin
• ⚠️ Rust (no LSP semantic tokens support; inconsistent)

Supported Plugins

I added support for some plugins I use.

• oil.nvim
• mini.diff
• mini.pick

Color Palette

Light Theme

Color	Hex	Usage
Orange	#f7e0c3	Comments (background)
Green	#e2e9c1	Strings (background)
Teal	#d2ebe3	Constants (background)
Blue	#dde4f2	Identifiers (background)
Purple	#f1ddf1	Functions (background)

Dark Theme

Uses foreground-only colors (no backgrounds) for a more subtle appearance.

Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.9.0
• Terminal with true color support
• Treesitter (recommended for best syntax highlighting)
• LSP (optional, for semantic highlighting)

Credits

• Inspired by flatwhite-syntax by biletskyy
• Philosophy from tonsky's article
• Also influenced by: Alabaster, No Clown Fiesta

License

MIT