diff --git a/vim/colors/customred256.vim b/vim/colors/customred256.vim
index 97c9097..260645b 100644
--- a/vim/colors/customred256.vim
+++ b/vim/colors/customred256.vim
@@ -249,6 +249,13 @@ hi! def link jsThis             CRNoiseBrighter
 hi! def link jsConditional      CRAltDark
 hi! def link jsParenRepeat      CRAltBright
 
+" vue definitions
+hi! vueDirective                ctermfg=88
+hi! vueEvent                    ctermfg=160
+hi! vueConditional              ctermfg=202
+hi! def link vueFor             vueConditional
+hi! vueRef                      ctermfg=214
+
 " json definitions
 hi! def link jsonKeyword				Identifier
 hi! def link jsonValue					String
@@ -326,8 +333,8 @@ if version >= 700
 endif
 
 hi VertSplit						ctermfg=16 ctermbg=16 term=none cterm=none
-hi Folded								ctermfg=240 ctermbg=232 term=bold
-hi FoldColumn						ctermfg=237 ctermbg=none cterm=bold term=bold
+hi Folded								ctermfg=240 ctermbg=none term=bold
+hi FoldColumn						ctermfg=235 ctermbg=none cterm=bold term=bold
 hi LineNr								ctermfg=237 ctermbg=none cterm=none
 hi CursorLineNr					ctermfg=243 ctermbg=none cterm=none
 hi EndOfBuffer					ctermfg=233 ctermbg=none
diff --git a/vim/syntax/vue_custom.vim b/vim/syntax/vue_custom.vim
index 1f857ae..a4a85e0 100644
--- a/vim/syntax/vue_custom.vim
+++ b/vim/syntax/vue_custom.vim
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ endif
 syn region  vueSurroundingTag   contained start=+<\(script\|style\|template\)+ end=+>+ fold contains=htmlTagN,htmlString,htmlArg,htmlValue,htmlTagError,htmlEvent
 syn keyword htmlSpecialTagName  contained template
 syn keyword htmlArg             contained scoped ts
-syn match   htmlArg "[@v:][-:.0-9_a-z]*\>" contained
+" syn match   htmlArg "[@v:][-:.0-9_a-z]*\>" contained
+syn match   vueDirective "[v:][-:.0-9_a-z]*" containedin=htmlTag
+syn match   vueEvent "[@][-:.0-9_a-z]*" containedin=htmlTag
+syn match   vueConditional "v-if\|v-else\|v-show" containedin=htmlTag
+syn match   vueFor "v-for" containedin=htmlTag
+syn match   vueRef "ref" containedin=htmlTag
 
 let b:current_syntax = "vue"