I use "darkblue" where I don't care for any particular scheme other than one having decent contrast between text & dark background. (In my own $ENV I have my own color schemes which is not as complete (due to incomplete syntax matching) as the ones included with vim, and I could not care less.) In any case I have found colors for word completion list & comment color (dark blue on black background) to be horrible in the default/no particular scheme (vim 7, 8), and not good enough under "darkblue".

When I use "darkblue", I have lightly modified some of the colors ... 

...
 " Removed custom syntax matching & associated highlight colors.

 "  black/grey: 0, 0c0c0c                    red: 1, fc3c4c
 "       green: 2, 0cdc0c/33ff33    brown/yellow: 3, fcfc00
 "        blue: 4, 4c4cdc/000020         magenta: 5, ac4cac/bc40bc
 "        cyan: 6, 3cbcfc             grey/white: 7, dcdcdc/fcfcfc
 "
 hi Comment       cterm=none ctermfg=5
 hi Identifier    cterm=bold  "ctermfg=6*

 hi logLevelNormal      cterm=none ctermfg=2
 hi logLevelNormalMess  cterm=none ctermfg=2
 "
 hi logLevelWarn      cterm=bold ctermfg=3*
 hi logLevelWarnMess  cterm=bold ctermfg=3*
 "
 hi logLevelErr       cterm=bold ctermfg=1*
 hi logLevelErrMess   cterm=bold ctermfg=1*

 " Normal completion menu item;
 hi Pmenu       term=reverse       cterm=bold          ctermfg=0  cter
+mbg=6
 " selected item;
 hi PmenuSel    term=reverse,bold  cterm=bold          ctermfg=7  cter
+mbg=4
 " scrollbar;
 hi PmenuSbar   term=reverse       cterm=bold          ctermfg=0  cter
+mbg=2
 " 'thumb' of the scrollbar.
 hi PmenuThumb  term=reverse       cterm=bold,reverse  ctermfg=0  cter
+mbg=2
 "
 " Have not seen these in GUI in a long time.
 "hi Pmenu       gui=bold     guifg=#dcdcdc  guibg=#000000
 "hi PmenuSel    gui=bold     guifg=#ffff00  guibg=#000000
 "hi PmenuSbar   gui=bold     guifg=#ffff00  guibg=#000000
 "hi PmenuThumb  gui=reverse  guifg=#ffff00  guibg=#000000
...

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In reply to Re: colours for syntax highlighting by Anonymous Monk
in thread colours for syntax highlighting by morgon

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