Neovim color schemes fail on Mac terminal

Question

Switching from Vim (on VSCode) to nvim on my Mac, I'm trying to change some color schemes.

However, when I change with :colorscheme <color> , the changes in the window don't reflect what they should.

I originally found this error while trying to load a separate color scheme from github and it didn't work, then tried others and builtin ones and they all are wrong:

Choosing a scheme:

After chosen:

It seems all these default schemes are derivative of green highlight on white text on black background.

I figured it probably has something to do with Terminal preferences, but couldn't find any solutions.

Thanks!

Answer 1

So you are using the builtin terminal of macOS? If that is the case, probably because the builtin terminal does not support true colors. Get yourself a decent terminal emulator, like, kitty terminal, wezterm, iterm2.

Add the following to your config:

set termguicolors

Install a color scheme supporting true color, like gruvbox-material .

Switch to it colorsheme gruvbox-material . It should work.