Gruvbox VS Molokai

Hey programmers - I was recently looking for a gruvbox theme for Visual Studio - but found the current one offered on the store not to my taste, (and not technically following the design philosophy of the original gruvbox theme) so I decided to make my own! Source: 6 months ago

Gruvbox Material is a modified version of Gruvbox, the contrast is adjusted to be softer in order to protect developers' eyes. Https://github.com/sainnhe/gruvbox-material. Source: 11 months ago

Gruvbox its a retro groove Color scheme heavily inspired by badwolf, jellybeans and solarized. With this I want to give the community a customization theme a little different from what they are used to such as neon and those quirky themes that do not go with the retro theme of the PSP. Source: 11 months ago

Native 4K minimalist/modernist take on the classic Dark Side of the Moon album cover, using the colors from the gruvbox palette by morhetz. I wanted something like this for my own desktop, couldn't find it anywhere. So I made it myself and figured maybe someone else might like it. Source: about 1 year ago

For a long time I thought that best theme for me was gruvbox or perhaps vscode-dark-plus. I was wrong. Source: about 1 year ago

Monokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monokai.nl/blog/2006/07/ At some point, the original author decided Monokai was a good name for both the website and the colorscheme: https://monokai.pro/ A different author ported the theme to Vim, and named this version Molokai to avoid confusion with the original author: - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

First, the tutorial is simply giving you bad advices. You should not be placing custom color schemes in ~/.vim/colors. You should instead be installing it like a plugin instead. Color schemes are just a type of plugins that only have a color folder (e.g. If you look at https://github.com/tomasr/molokai it only has a "color" folder and licenses etc). Source: over 1 year ago