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<p align="center">An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant <a href="https://www.vim.org">Vim</a> color theme.</p>

<p align="center">Designed for a fluent and clear workflow based on the <a href="https://www.nordtheme.com">Nord</a> color palette.</p>

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Build for Vim's terminal- and GUI mode with _true colors_ with support for many third-party syntax and UI plugins including bundled themes for [lightline.vim][1] and [vim-airline][4].

## Getting Started

Visit the [official website][23] to learn all about the [syntax highlighting][27] features, details and elements of [UI and editor elements][25], the [various theme configurations][24] and the [support for many plugins][26].

Learn about the [installation and activation][20], how to [configure][18] and [customize][19] the theme from the [official documentations][22].

### Quick Start

Thanks to existing plugin/_runtimepath_ managers for Vim, Nord Vim can be installed for all platforms and the various variants/forks of Vim in a uniform way within a few lines of codes. The recommended manager is [vim-plug][2], but any other manager like [pathogen][3] or [Vundle][5] can also be used.

To automatically download and activate Nord Vim, follow the install instructions for [vim-plug][2] and

1. add `Plug 'nordtheme/vim'` to your [`vimrc`][28] within _vim-plug_'s plugin loading function
2. run the `:PlugInstall` command in Vim
3. activate the theme by adding `colorscheme nord` to the [vimrc][28] or change it on-the-fly by running `:colorscheme nord`

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See the Nord Vim's documentation for [more installation options][20] and how to [set it up manually][21].

## Features

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  <strong>A unified UI and editor syntax element design provides a clutter-free and fluidly merging appearance.</strong><br />
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  <strong>Small details with unobtrusive styles for popular and common code editor features like search result marker and brace matching — designed to get out of your way with a visually attractive appearance.</strong><br />
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  <strong>Support for a wide range of programming languages — from bundled plugins up to many popular syntax and UI third-party plugins.</strong><br />
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    <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arcticicestudio/nord-docs/main/assets/images/ports/vim/syntax-javascript-react-hook.png"/>
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## Contributing

Nord is an open source project and we love to receive contributions from the [community][6]!

There are many ways to contribute, from [writing- and improving documentation and tutorials][9], [reporting bugs][8], [submitting enhancement suggestions][10] that can be added to Nord by [submitting pull requests][14].

Please take a moment to read Nord's full [contributing guide][17] to learn about the development process, the project's used [styleguides][15], [branch organization][7] and [versioning][16] model.

The guide also includes information about [minimal, complete, and verifiable examples][13] and other ways to contribute to the project like [improving existing issues][12] and [giving feedback on issues and pull requests][11].

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  Copyright &copy; 2016-present <a href="https://www.svengreb.de" target="_blank">Sven Greb</a>
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[1]: https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim
[2]: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
[3]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
[4]: https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline
[5]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen
[6]: https://www.nordtheme.com/community
[7]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#branch-organization
[8]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#bug-reports
[9]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#documentations
[10]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#enhancement-suggestions
[11]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#feedback
[12]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#improve-issues
[13]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#mcve
[14]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#pull-requests
[15]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#style-guides
[16]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md#versioning
[17]: https://github.com/nordtheme/.github/blob/main/contributing.md
[18]: https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/ports/vim/configuration
[19]: https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/ports/vim/customization
[20]: https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/ports/vim/installation
[21]: https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/ports/vim/installation#manual
[22]: https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/ports/vim
[23]: https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim
[24]: https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim#configurations
[25]: https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim#editor-details
[26]: https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim#plugin-support
[27]: https://www.nordtheme.com/ports/vim#syntax
[28]: https://vimhelp.org/starting.txt.html#vimrc
