Trouble Getting Colorschemes in Vim with Iterm2

vim colors color-scheme iterm2
clee101 picture clee101 · Jan 23, 2015 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

I can't get the vimbrant colorscheme (or any) to work in Vim with Iterm2. This is my .vimrc file:

syntax on
syntax enable
colorscheme vimbrant
set background=dark

I have Iterm set up to use xterm-256 like it says in the FAQ as well. Whenever I echo in Vim it says 256.

The terminal also doesn't use the color settings I have in Iterm2 but I don't care about that as much.

EDIT: The file is in ~/.vim/colors/vimbrant.vim. Also, I forgot to mention that my cursor seems to have the right colors for variables and structs and whatnot, but the text itself is all white still. The background seems to be the correct color. And the only thing in my .gvimrc file is colorscheme vimbrant.

Answer

clee101 picture clee101 · Jan 24, 2015

Really dumb mistake, I had minimum contrast maxed out without realizing.

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