A set of utilities for working with (terminal) color schemes / themes.
Extract the color settings from kitty configuration / theme files, convert them to different formats so that you can copy-paste them into the settings of your favorite terminal emulator.
Click the titles to expand to see the example output generated from kitty-theme's template.conf
JSON
{
"foreground": "#dddddd",
"background": "#000000",
"selection_foreground": "#000000",
"selection_background": "#fffacd",
"cursor": "#cccccc",
"cursor_text_color": "#111111",
"url_color": "#0087bd",
"active_border_color": "#00ff00",
"inactive_border_color": "#cccccc",
"bell_border_color": "#ff5a00",
"active_tab_foreground": "#000",
"active_tab_background": "#eee",
"inactive_tab_foreground": "#444",
"inactive_tab_background": "#999",
"mark1_background": "#98d3cb",
"mark2_background": "#f2dcd3",
"mark3_background": "#f274bc",
"black": "#000000",
"bright_black": "#767676",
"red": "#cc0403",
"bright_red": "#f2201f",
"green": "#19cb00",
"bright_green": "#23fd00",
"yellow": "#cecb00",
"bright_yellow": "#fffd00",
"blue": "#0d73cc",
"bright_blue": "#1a8fff",
"magenta": "#cb1ed1",
"bright_magenta": "#fd28ff",
"cyan": "#0dcdcd",
"bright_cyan": "#14ffff",
"white": "#dddddd",
"bright_white": "#ffffff"
}
VS Code
{
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"panel.background": "#000000",
"terminalCursor.foreground": "#cccccc",
"terminalCursor.background": "#111111",
"terminal.ansiBlack": "#000000",
"terminal.ansiBrightBlack": "#767676",
"terminal.ansiRed": "#cc0403",
"terminal.ansiBrightRed": "#f2201f",
"terminal.ansiGreen": "#19cb00",
"terminal.ansiBrightGreen": "#23fd00",
"terminal.ansiYellow": "#cecb00",
"terminal.ansiBrightYellow": "#fffd00",
"terminal.ansiBlue": "#0d73cc",
"terminal.ansiBrightBlue": "#1a8fff",
"terminal.ansiMagenta": "#cb1ed1",
"terminal.ansiBrightMagenta": "#fd28ff",
"terminal.ansiCyan": "#0dcdcd",
"terminal.ansiBrightCyan": "#14ffff",
"terminal.ansiWhite": "#dddddd",
"terminal.ansiBrightWhite": "#ffffff"
}
}
Windows Terminal
{
"name": "kitty",
"foreground": "#dddddd",
"background": "#000000",
"selectionForeground": "#000000",
"selectionBackground": "#fffacd",
"cursorColor": "#cccccc",
"black": "#000000",
"brightBlack": "#767676",
"red": "#cc0403",
"brightRed": "#f2201f",
"green": "#19cb00",
"brightGreen": "#23fd00",
"yellow": "#cecb00",
"brightYellow": "#fffd00",
"blue": "#0d73cc",
"brightBlue": "#1a8fff",
"purple": "#cb1ed1",
"brightPurple": "#fd28ff",
"cyan": "#0dcdcd",
"brightCyan": "#14ffff",
"white": "#dddddd",
"brightWhite": "#ffffff"
}
kitty
foreground #dddddd
background #000000
selection_foreground #000000
selection_background #fffacd
cursor #cccccc
cursor_text_color #111111
url_color #0087bd
active_border_color #00ff00
inactive_border_color #cccccc
bell_border_color #ff5a00
active_tab_foreground #000
active_tab_background #eee
inactive_tab_foreground #444
inactive_tab_background #999
mark1_background #98d3cb
mark2_background #f2dcd3
mark3_background #f274bc
black #000000
bright_black #767676
red #cc0403
bright_red #f2201f
green #19cb00
bright_green #23fd00
yellow #cecb00
bright_yellow #fffd00
blue #0d73cc
bright_blue #1a8fff
magenta #cb1ed1
bright_magenta #fd28ff
cyan #0dcdcd
bright_cyan #14ffff
white #dddddd
bright_white #ffffff
$ kitty-conf-extract-theme -h
usage: kitty-conf-extract-theme [-h] [-V] [-c KITTY_CONF_FILE] [-f {windowsterminal,vscode,kitty,json}] [-s]
Extract the color scheme from a kitty theme / conf file
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-c KITTY_CONF_FILE, --kitty-conf-file KITTY_CONF_FILE, --kitty-theme-file KITTY_CONF_FILE
Kitty conf theme file (default: /Users/tscp/testdir/kitty-themes/template.conf)
-f {windowsterminal,vscode,kitty,json}, --output-format {windowsterminal,vscode,kitty,json}
Output format (default: json)
-s, --sort-keys Sort color name keys (default: False)
This is the recommended installation method.
$ pipx install color-scheme-utils
$ pip install color-scheme-utils
- Kovid Goyal for creating kitty and it's excellent documentation.
- vscode.one's theme editor