Change font color for comments in vim

Most well-behaving colorschemes will respect the background setting:

set background=dark

would change the color of comments from dark blue to light blue, when using the default colorscheme.

:hi Comment guifg=#ABCDEF

Pick your color! If using a color terminal, replace guifg=#ABCDEF with ctermfg=N with N being a color number.

Also type :help :hi for more information.

hi Comment ctermfg=LightBlue

Add this to your .vimrc file which is either in your ~ or the /etc/vim directory. This will make it permanent. I haven't tested this with gvim.

I also have set background=light before I set comment color. I like all the colors it created except for the comments.