iTerm Color Schemes

Intro

This is a set of color schemes for iTerm (aka iTerm2). It also includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, Ghostty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

Screenshots below and in the screenshots directory.

Installation Instructions

There are 3 ways to install an iTerm theme:

Direct way via keyboard shortcut:
- Launch iTerm 2. Get the latest version at iterm2.com
- Type CMD+i (⌘+i)
- Navigate to Colors tab
- Click on Color Presets
- Click on Import
- Click on the schemes folder
- Select the .itermcolors profiles you would like to import
- Click on Color Presets and choose a color scheme
Via iTerm preferences (go to the same configuration location as above):
- Launch iTerm 2. Get the latest version at iterm2.com
- Click on iTerm2 menu title
- Select Preferences... option
- Select Profiles
- Navigate to Colors tab
- Click on Color Presets
- Click on Import
- Select the .itermcolors file(s) of the schemes you'd like to use * Click on Color Presets and choose a color scheme

Via Bash script

Launch iTerm 2. Get the latest version at iterm2.com
Run the following command:

# Import all color schemes
tools/import-scheme.sh schemes/*

# Import all color schemes (verbose mode)
tools/import-scheme.sh -v schemes/*

# Import specific color schemes (quotations are needed for schemes with spaces in name)
tools/import-scheme.sh 'schemes/SpaceGray Eighties.itermcolors' # by file path
tools/import-scheme.sh 'SpaceGray Eighties'                     # by scheme name
tools/import-scheme.sh Molokai 'SpaceGray Eighties'             # import multiple

Restart iTerm 2. (Need to quit iTerm 2 to reload the configuration file.)

Contribute

Prerequisites

For convenient work with generation scripts, it is recommended to install pyenv.
Run pyenv install inside project folder to install python version from .python-version file.
Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the project dependencies.

How to add new theme

Have a great iTerm theme? Send it to me via a Pull Request!

Get your theme's.itermcolors file.
- Launch iTerm 2
- Type CMD+i (⌘+i)
- Navigate to Colors tab
- Click on Color Presets
- Click on Export
- Save the .itermcolors file
Put your theme file into /schemes/
- mv <your-itermcolors-file> schemes/
Generate other formats for your theme using the gen.py script.
- cd tools/ && python3 gen.py OR
- cd tools/ && ./gen.py
If you only want to generate files for your theme, you can specify this with the -s flag.
- ./gen.py -s Dracula
Get a screenshot of your theme using the screenshotTable.sh script and ImageMagick. For screenshot consistency, please have your font set to 13pt Monaco and no transparency on the window.
- cd tools/ && ./screenshotTable.sh - this will create a color table for your theme that you can screenshot.
- Use ImageMagick (or some other tool) to resize your image for consistency - mogrify -resize 600x300\! <path-to-your-screenshot>
- Move your screenshot into screenshots/ - mv <your-screenshot> screenshots/
Update README.md and screenshots/README.md to include your theme and screenshot. Also update CREDITS.md to credit yourself for your contribution.

How to add new template

Do you want to convert existing iTerm themes to themes for your favorite terminal/editor/etc?

Get config file from your terminal/editor/etc.
Change actual colors in config to template placeholders from the list below.

  {{ Background_Color }}
  {{ Bold_Color }}
  {{ Cursor_Color }}
  {{ Cursor_Text_Color }}
  {{ Foreground_Color }}
  {{ Selected_Text_Color }}
  {{ Selection_Color }}
  {{ Ansi_0_Color }} // black
  {{ Ansi_1_Color }} // red
  {{ Ansi_2_Color }} // green
  {{ Ansi_3_Color }} // yellow
  {{ Ansi_4_Color }} // blue
  {{ Ansi_5_Color }} // magenta
  {{ Ansi_6_Color }} // cyan
  {{ Ansi_7_Color }} // white
  {{ Ansi_8_Color }} // bright black
  {{ Ansi_9_Color }} // bright red
  {{ Ansi_10_Color }} // bright green
  {{ Ansi_11_Color }} // bright yellow
  {{ Ansi_12_Color }} // bright blue
  {{ Ansi_13_Color }} // bright magenta
  {{ Ansi_14_Color }} // bright cyan
  {{ Ansi_15_Color }} // bright white

  Each color has these fields:
    - {{ Background_Color.hex }} for hex representation
    - {{ Background_Color.rgb }} for rgb representation as a "(r, g, b)" string
    - {{ Backgroun_Color.guint16 }} for guint16 representation

  Also you have access to this metadata fields:
    - {{ Guint16_Palette }} with a string containing all ansi colors as guint16 values
    - {{ Dark_Theme }} which contains a sign that the theme is dark

If you need a new value type for color, add it too tools/converter.py
Put your template file into tool/templates. A folder with schemas will be created based on the filename. And the file extension will remain with all generated ones. Example: editor.ext file will generate schemas as editor/scheme_name.ext
Generate all existing themes for all templates cd tools/ && ./gen.py. Or, if you only want to generate schemas for your template, you can use the -t flag.

./gen.py -t kitty

If in the process you had to add new dependencies or update the version of python, do not forget to indicate this in requirements.txt or .python-version.

Screenshots

3024 Day

3024 Night

Aardvark Blue

Abernathy

Adventure

AdventureTime

Afterglow

Alabaster

AlienBlood

Andromeda

Apple Classic

Apple System Colors

Arcoiris

Argonaut

Arthur

AtelierSulphurpool

Atom

Atom One Light

ayu

ayu Light

ayu Mirage

Aurora

Banana Blueberry

Batman

Belafonte Day

Belafonte Night

BirdsOfParadise

Blazer

BlueBerry Pie

BlueDolphin

Blue Matrix

Bluloco Dark

Bluloco Light

Borland

Breeze

Bright Lights

Broadcast

Brogrammer

C64

Calamity

Catppuccin Frappé

Catppuccin Latte

Catppuccin Macchiato

Catppuccin Mocha

CGA

Chalk

Chalkboard

ChallengerDeep

Chester

Ciapre

CLRS

Cobalt Neon

Cobalt2

Coffee

CrayonPonyFish

CutiePro

Cyberdyne

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk Scarlet Protocol

1Screenshot

Dark Pastel

Dark+

Darkside

Dayfox

Deep

Desert

Dimidium

DimmedMonokai

Django

DjangoRebornAgain

DjangoSmoothy

Doom One

Doom Peacock

DotGov

Dracula

Dracula+

Duckbones

Duotone Dark

Earthsong

Elemental

Elementary

ENCOM

Espresso

Espresso Libre

Everblush

Fairyfloss

Fahrenheit

Farmhouse Dark

Farmhouse Light

Fideloper

Firefly Traditional

FirefoxDev

Firewatch

FishTank

Flat

Flatland

Flexoki Dark

Flexoki Light

Floraverse

Forest Blue

Framer

FrontEndDelight

FunForrest

Galaxy

Galizur

Github

GitHub Dark

Glacier

Grape

Grass

Grey-green

Gruber Darker

Gruvbox Dark

Gruvbox Dark Hard

Gruvbox Light

Guezwhoz

Hacktober

Hardcore

Harper

HaX0R_R3D

HaX0R_GR33N

HaX0R_BLUE

Highway

Hipster Green

Hivacruz

Homebrew

Hopscotch

Hopscotch 256

Hurtado

Hybrid

IC_Green_PPL

IC_Orange_PPL

iceberg

IDEA Drak

idleToes

IR_Black

iTerm2 Default

iTerm2 Dark Background

iTerm2 Light Background

iTerm2 Pastel (Dark Background)

iTerm2 Smoooooth

iTerm2 Solarized Dark

iTerm2 Solarized Light

iTerm2 Tango Dark

iTerm2 Tango Light

Jackie Brown

Japanesque

Jellybeans

JetBrains Darcula

Jubi

Kanagawabones

Kibble

Kolorit

Konsolas

Kurokula

Lab Fox

Laser

Later This Evening

Lavandula

LiquidCarbon

LiquidCarbonTransparent

LiquidCarbonTransparentInverse

LoveLace

Man Page

Mariana

Material

MaterialDark

MaterialDarker

MaterialDesignColors

MaterialOcean

Mathias

Matrix

Dark Matrix

Darker Matrix

Medallion

Mellifluous

Midnight In Mojave

Mirage

Misterioso

Molokai

MonaLisa

Monokai Remastered

Monokai Soda

Monokai Vivid

N0tch2k

Neobones Dark

Neobones Light

Neon

Neopolitan

Neutron

Nightfox

NightLion v1

NightLion v2

Night Owlish Light

Niji

Novel

Nocturnal Winter

Nord

Nord-light

NvimDark

NvimLight

Obsidian

Ocean

OceanicMaterial

Oceanic Next

Ollie

One Half Dark

One Half Light

Operator Mono Dark

Overnight Slumber

Oxocarbon

Palenight High Contrast

Pandora

Paraiso Dark

PaulMillr

Pencil Dark

Pencil Light

Peppermint

Piatto Light

Pnevma

Popping and Locking

Primary

Pro

Pro Light

Purple Peter

Purple Rain

Rapture

Raycast Dark

Raycast Light

Rebecca

Red Alert

Red Planet

Red Sands

Relaxed

Retro

Rippedcasts

Rosé Pine

Rosé Pine Dawn

Rosé Pine Moon

Rouge 2

Royal

Ryuuko

Sakura

Scarlet Protocol

Seafoam Pastel

SeaShells

Seoulbones Dark

Seoulbones Light

Seti

Shaman

Shades-Of-Purple

Slate

SleepyHollow

Smyck

Snazzy

SoftServer

Solarized Darcula (With background image)

Solarized Darcula (Without background image)

Solarized Dark - Patched

Some applications assume the ANSI color code 8 is a gray color. Solarized treats this code as equal to the background. This theme is for people who prefer the former. See issues #59, #62, and #63 for more information.

Solarized Dark Higher Contrast

SpaceGray

SpaceGray Eighties

SpaceGray Eighties Dull

Spacedust

Spiderman

Spring

Square

Sublette

Subliminal

Sugarplum

Sundried

Symfonic

synthwave

Synthwave Alpha

Synthwave Everything

Tango Adapted

Tango Half Adapted

Teerb

Terafox

Terminal Basic

Thayer Bright

The Hulk

Tinacious Design (Dark)

Tinacious Design (Light)

TokyoNight

TokyoNight Storm

TokyoNight Day

Tomorrow

Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow Night Blue

Tomorrow Night Bright

Tomorrow Night Eighties

Tomorrow Night Burns

ToyChest

Treehouse

Twilight

Ubuntu

UltraViolent

UltraDark

Under The Sea

Unikitty

Urple

Vaughn

Vesper

VibrantInk

Vimbones

Violet Light

Violet Dark

WarmNeon

Wez

Whimsy

WildCherry

Wilmersdorf

Wombat

Wryan

Xcode dark

Xcode dark (High Contrast)

Xcode light

Xcode light (High Contrast)

Xcode WWDC

Zenbones

Zenbones Dark

Zenbones Light

Zenburn

Zenburned

Zenwritten Dark

Zenwritten Light

Credits

The schemes Novel, Espresso, Grass, Homebrew, Ocean, Pro, Man Page, Red Sands, and Terminal Basic are ports of the schemes of the same name included with the Mac Terminal application. All of Terminal's schemes have now been ported, with the exception of Solid Colors (random backgrounds, which iTerm doesn't support) and Aerogel (which is hideous).
The schemes iTerm2 Default, iTerm2 Dark Background, iTerm2 Light Background, iTerm2 Pastel (Dark Background), iTerm2 Smoooooth, iTerm2 Solarized Dark, iTerm2 Solarized Light, iTerm2 Tango Dark, and iTerm2 Tango Light are ports from the built-in color schemes of iTerm2 (current source is iTerm2 v3.4.19).
Credits for all other themes are listed in CREDITS.md

If there are other color schemes you'd like to see included, drop me a line!

Extra

X11 Installation

To install under the X Window System:

Import the .xrdb file of the scheme you'd like to use:

  #include "/home/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/xrdb/Blazer.xrdb"

Use the #defines provided by the imported .xrdb file:

  Rxvt*color0:       Ansi_0_Color
  Rxvt*color1:       Ansi_1_Color
  Rxvt*color2:       Ansi_2_Color
  Rxvt*color3:       Ansi_3_Color
  Rxvt*color4:       Ansi_4_Color
  Rxvt*color5:       Ansi_5_Color
  Rxvt*color6:       Ansi_6_Color
  Rxvt*color7:       Ansi_7_Color
  Rxvt*color8:       Ansi_8_Color
  Rxvt*color9:       Ansi_9_Color
  Rxvt*color10:      Ansi_10_Color
  Rxvt*color11:      Ansi_11_Color
  Rxvt*color12:      Ansi_12_Color
  Rxvt*color13:      Ansi_13_Color
  Rxvt*color14:      Ansi_14_Color
  Rxvt*color15:      Ansi_15_Color
  Rxvt*colorBD:      Bold_Color
  Rxvt*colorIT:      Italic_Color
  Rxvt*colorUL:      Underline_Color
  Rxvt*foreground:   Foreground_Color
  Rxvt*background:   Background_Color
  Rxvt*cursorColor:  Cursor_Color

  XTerm*color0:      Ansi_0_Color
  XTerm*color1:      Ansi_1_Color
  XTerm*color2:      Ansi_2_Color
  XTerm*color3:      Ansi_3_Color
  XTerm*color4:      Ansi_4_Color
  XTerm*color5:      Ansi_5_Color
  XTerm*color6:      Ansi_6_Color
  XTerm*color7:      Ansi_7_Color
  XTerm*color8:      Ansi_8_Color
  XTerm*color9:      Ansi_9_Color
  XTerm*color10:     Ansi_10_Color
  XTerm*color11:     Ansi_11_Color
  XTerm*color12:     Ansi_12_Color
  XTerm*color13:     Ansi_13_Color
  XTerm*color14:     Ansi_14_Color
  XTerm*color15:     Ansi_15_Color
  XTerm*colorBD:     Bold_Color
  XTerm*colorIT:     Italic_Color
  XTerm*colorUL:     Underline_Color
  XTerm*foreground:  Foreground_Color
  XTerm*background:  Background_Color
  XTerm*cursorColor: Cursor_Color

Store the above snippets in a file and pass it in:

  xrdb -merge YOUR_FILE_CONTAINING_ABOVE_SNIPPETS

Open new XTerm or Rxvt windows to see the changes.
Adapt this procedure to other terminals as needed.

Terminator color schemes

Edit your Terminator configuration file (located in: $HOME/.config/terminator/config) and add the configurations for the theme(s) you'd like to use the [profiles] section. The terminator/ directory contains the config snippets you'll need. Just paste the configurations into the [profiles] sections, and you're good to go!

At a minimum, this is all you need. You can customize the fonts and other aspects as well, if you wish. See the Terminator documentation for more details.

An example config file that includes the code snippet for the Symfonic theme would look like this:

[global_config]
    [keybindings]
    [profiles]
      [[default]]
        palette = "#1a1a1a:#f4005f:#98e024:#fa8419:#9d65ff:#f4005f:#58d1eb:#c4c5b5:#625e4c:#f4005f:#98e024:#e0d561:#9d65ff:#f4005f:#58d1eb:#f6f6ef"
        background_image = None
        use_system_font = False
        cursor_color = "#f6f7ec"
        foreground_color = "#c4c5b5"
        font = Source Code Pro Light 11
        background_color = "#1a1a1a"
      [[Symfonic]]
        palette = "#000000:#dc322f:#56db3a:#ff8400:#0084d4:#b729d9:#ccccff:#ffffff:#1b1d21:#dc322f:#56db3a:#ff8400:#0084d4:#b729d9:#ccccff:#ffffff"
        background_color = "#000000"
        cursor_color = "#dc322f"
        foreground_color = "#ffffff"
        background_image = None
    [layouts]
      [[default]]
        [[[child1]]]
          type = Terminal
          parent = window0
        [[[window0]]]
          type = Window
          parent = ""
    [plugins]

Konsole color schemes

Copy the themes from the konsole directory to $HOME/.config/konsole (in some versions of KDE, the theme directory may be located at $HOME/.local/share/konsole), restart Konsole and choose your new theme from the profile preferences window.

If you want to make the themes available to all users, copy the .colorscheme files to /usr/share/konsole.

Terminal color schemes

Just double click on selected theme in terminal directory

PuTTY color schemes

New Session Method

This method creates a new blank session with JUST colors set properly.

Download the appropriate colorscheme.reg file and import the registry changes by right-clicking and choosing Merge. Choose "Yes" when prompted if you're sure. Color scheme will show up as a new PuTTY session with all defaults except entries at Window > Colours > Adjust the precise colours PuTTY displays.

Modify Session Method

This method modifies an existing session and changes JUST the color settings.

Download the appropriate colorscheme.reg file. Open the file with a text editor and change the color scheme portion (Molokai below) to match the session you want to modify:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\Molokai]
- CHANGE TO (EXAMPLE) -
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\root@localhost]

NOTE: Some special characters will need to be changed to their Percent-encoded representation (IE, Space as %20). To quickly find the right session name view the top-level entries at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\ with regedit.exe.

Other PuTTY Recommendations

Window > Apprearance
 Font: Consolas, bold, 14-point
 Font quality:
  ( ) Antialiased     ( ) Non-Antialiased
  (O) ClearType       ( ) Default
Window > Colours
 [X] Allow terminal to specify ANSI colours
 [X] Allow terminal to use xterm 256-colour mode
 Indicate bolded text by changing:
  ( ) The font   (O) The colour   ( ) Both
 [ ] Attempt to use logical palettes
 [ ] Use system colours

Xfce Terminal color schemes

Copy the colorschemes folder to ~/.local/share/xfce4/terminal/ and restart Terminal.

FreeBSD vt color schemes

Append your favourite theme from freebsd_vt/ to /boot/loader.conf or /boot/loader.conf.local and reboot.

MobaXterm color schemes

Copy the theme content from mobaxterm/ and paste the content to your MobaXterm.ini in the corresponding place ([Colors]).

LXTerminal color schemes

Copy the theme content from lxterminal/ and paste the content to your lxterminal in the corresponding place ([general]).

Visual Studio Code color schemes

Copy the theme content from vscode/ and paste the content to your UserSettings.json.

Windows Terminal color schemes

Copy the theme content from windowsterminal/ and paste the content to your profiles.json in the corresponding place ("schemes"). Then specify the name of your theme by "colorScheme" in "profiles".

Alacritty color schemes

Copy the theme content from alacritty/ and paste the content to your alacritty config file, at ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml. You can also set your theme by adding the following line at your config's 1st line import = ["~/.config/alacritty/themes/mytheme.toml"].

If you still need a color scheme with .yml, you can get it here.

Ghostty color schemes

Copy the theme content from ghostty/ and paste the content in your Ghostty config file, at ~/.config/ghostty/config.

Rio color schemes

Copy the theme file from rio/ and paste to your rio theme config directory (typically ~/.config/rio/themes/). Then specify the name of your theme in the theme field in the config file.

Termux color schemes

Copy the theme content from termux/ and paste the content to ~/.termux directory as ~/.termux/colors.properties file and run termux-reload-settings to apply the theme.

Previewing color schemes

preview.rb is a simple script that allows you to preview the color schemes without having to import them. It parses .itermcolors files and applies the colors to the current session using iTerm's proprietary escape codes. As noted in the linked page, it doesn't run on tmux or screen.

# Apply AdventureTime scheme to the current session
tools/preview.rb schemes/AdventureTime.itermcolors

# Apply the schemes in turn.
# - Press (almost) any key to advance; hit CTRL-C or ESC to stop
# - Press the delete key to go back
tools/preview.rb schemes/*

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