docs: added docs on how to use the color palette for other plugins. Fixes #75

README.md

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ The **day** style will be used if:
 | tokyonight_transparent              | `false`   | Enable this to disable setting the background color                                                                                                             |
 | tokyonight_hide_inactive_statusline | `false`   | Enabling this option, will hide inactive statuslines and replace them with a thin border instead. Should work with the standard **StatusLine** and **LuaLine**. |
 | tokyonight_sidebars                 | `{}`      | Set a darker background on sidebar-like windows. For example: `["qf", "vista_kind", "terminal", "packer"]`                                                      |
-| tokyonight_transparent_sidebar      | `false`   | Sidebar like windows like `NvimTree` get a transparent background
+| tokyonight_transparent_sidebar      | `false`   | Sidebar like windows like `NvimTree` get a transparent background                                                                                               |
 | tokyonight_dark_sidebar             | `true`    | Sidebar like windows like `NvimTree` get a darker background                                                                                                    |
 | tokyonight_dark_float               | `true`    | Float windows like the lsp diagnostics windows get a darker background.                                                                                         |
 | tokyonight_colors                   | `{}`      | You can override specific color groups to use other groups or a hex color                                                                                       |
@@ -166,6 +166,16 @@ Extra color configs for **Kitty**, **Alacritty**, **Fish**, **WezTerm** and **iT
 
 ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/292349/115395546-d8d6f880-a198-11eb-98fb-a1194787701d.png)
 
+You can easily use the color palette for other plugins inside your Neovim config:
+
+```lua
+local colors = require("tokyonight.colors").setup({}) -- pass in any of the config options as explained above
+local utils = requires("tokyonight.util")
+
+aplugin.background = colors.bg_dark
+aplugin.my_error = util.brighten(colors.red1, 0.3)
+```
+
 ## 🔥 Contributing
 
 Pull requests are welcome. For the `extras`, we use a simple template system that can be used to generate themes for the different styles.