Also, I'm red/green blind if it makes a difference 😞

I like desert-256 for dark highlighting, but it does green for most builtins, yellow for keywords, pink for strings

and red for ns/defn

You might find that tempus themes are good for you as they follow accessibility guidelines.

there's a bunch of sites out there with collections that have screenshots. here's one: https://github.com/rainglow/vim

unless you can find a list that are r/g blindness-friendly, you'll probably just have to look at lots until you find one you like that has good colours.

I'd recommend the one I use (distinguished), but it could hardly be worse for r/g blindness. a former colleague found it very hard to read.

I use palenight, works well

Thanks guys - I'll have a look!

i made this https://github.com/alexanderheldt/monokrom.vim, in which you could just change the splash-color to whatever blue you feel like

https://github.com/alexanderheldt/monokrom.vim/blob/master/colors/monokrom.vim#L31

@U0JLDMT9P I've always used murphy

@U0JLDMT9P I quite like apprentice for what you describe. https://github.com/romainl/Apprentice