Release Notes

v1.0.0 — Villa Mairea

Initial stable release of aalto.vim, a Vim-native perceptual colorscheme inspired by the late architectural palette of Alvar Aalto.

Added

• Full OKLCH-based palette engine
• Perceptual semantic hierarchy enforcement
• Dark and light variants
• Semantic highlighting mode
• Optional learner-oriented syntax mode
• ANSI terminal palette export (:AaltoExportAnsi)
• 256-color fallback support
• Vim9script implementation with true-color support
• Generated UI surfaces using OKLab distance metrics
• Gamut fitting for safe sRGB rendering

Included Highlight Support

• Core syntax groups
• Diagnostics
• Popup/floating UI
• Diff/editor UI groups
• Search, visual selection, and cursor surfaces

Configuration

New options:

• g:aalto_variant
• g:aalto_italic_comments
• g:aalto_italic_keywords
• g:aalto_transparent
• g:aalto_learner_mode

Notes

• Requires Vim 9.0+ and termguicolors
• Designed for modern true-color terminals
• Vim-native port of aalto.nvim
• Plugin-specific integrations intentionally minimal

License

MIT