Here’s catppuccin nvim with iTerm’s Light Background preset. Playing around with Color Preferences, I found that iTerm has a phenomenon where iTerm2’s background color “bleeds through” Neovim color themes. (Alacritty and iTerm2 were both off from the preview, but iTerm was just “more off”)Īfter scouring forums and git discussions and testing a bunch of different configs + settings, I’ve discovered 4 problems and their solutions: 1.
Juggling color spaces is apparently a very difficult thing for many applications to do. These fixes aren’t too technical, just some settings things that some people might easily miss.
My eyesight isn’t great, but I could easily tell that the colors were dimmer / washed out / lacking in gamma. An issue I ran into from setting up color themes, however, was that my iTerm2 colors looked pretty off from what the color theme previews did, and even more off from the same theme running in Alacritty, which I installed to troubleshoot this stuff (I really don’t wanna use Alacritty, iTerm2 is super nice.)
I’ve recently been spending some time configuring Neovim to look and feel the way I’d like. Fix iTerm2 Neovim Dim Colors/Color Space Issues
