Colors don't look right

[brimosimo]

I have now been trying for hours, I can't get your beautiful colorscheme to work.
Here is what I did, I use NVIM v0.10.2, with wbthomason/packer to manage my plugins. I have the following in my packer.lua:

use {
          'lalitmee/cobalt2.nvim',
          requires = 'tjdevries/colorbuddy.nvim'
  }

Installation worked like a charm. I have this in my lua.init:
require("colorbuddy").colorscheme("cobalt2")

My colorscheme now changes, but it does look awful:

I'm starting from within iTerm 2 on MacOS, I made sure that no .vimrc or .xvimrc are being loaded in compatibility mode, I made sure with scripts that iTerm can handle truecolors, I tried setting termguicolors = true all without luck. There are no messages being shown when starting vim. Is there any way I can troubleshoot this further? I would really like to use this colorscheme.

[lalitmee]

Hey @brimosimo, I have not been using packer from a long time but I would just recommend that you call this line:

            config = function()
                require("colorbuddy").colorscheme("cobalt2")
            end,

with your packer config where you have mentioned the cobalt2.nvim to be installed. For example:

use {
          'lalitmee/cobalt2.nvim',
          requires = 'tjdevries/colorbuddy.nvim'
          config = function()
                -- this needs to be called after the plugins has loaded
                require("colorbuddy").colorscheme("cobalt2")
          end,
  }

Let me know if this fixes it.

[brimosimo]

I did as you said, but had to add a , after the require statement:

use {
         'lalitmee/cobalt2.nvim',
         requires = 'tjdevries/colorbuddy.nvim',
         config = function()
                 require("colorbuddy").colorscheme("cobalt2")
         end
 }

I think I already tried this earlier, the effect is the same. Colors are still broken.

[lalitmee]

@brimosimo, as far as I remember when I was using packer I used to have an after/plugin/color.lua where I used to call the following:

require("colorbuddy").colorscheme("cobalt2")

And the following was my init.lua. I am sure that there is some setting mistake.

Please check it with minimal config. Maybe some other plugin is conflicting with it.

[brimosimo]

@lalitmee I tried this suggestions multiple times, tried it with all settings I could find online, verified again my $TERM env is correct. Installed different terminals, alacritty and kitty, all show the same color. I tried with a custom minimal .lua config calling nvim -u minimal.lua only having packer and colorbuddy plus cobalt2, it always results in those broken colors. I even installed neovim 9.5 because I read that 10.0 introduced changes to highlight groups, still, same effect.
I moved all my shell customisation like .profile and .zprofile, still no luck. I honestly have no idea what else I should try. I appreciate your instant replies though, thank you very much.