Terminal Themes

Every terminal theme is generated from lua/silkcircuit/variants.lua by make build, in all five variants. The colors your terminal draws are the same values Neovim draws, down to the hex, and CI fails if a generated file drifts from the palette.

Files live under extras/<terminal>/silkcircuit-<variant>.<ext>, where <variant> is one of neon, vibrant, soft, glow, or dawn. Dawn is the light variant, everything else is dark.

Pick your terminal

Terminal	Install path	Turn it on
Kitty	~/.config/kitty/themes/	include themes/silkcircuit-neon.conf
Alacritty	~/.config/alacritty/themes/	import = [".../silkcircuit-neon.toml"]
Ghostty	~/.config/ghostty/themes/	theme = silkcircuit-neon
WezTerm	~/.config/wezterm/colors/	config.color_scheme = "SilkCircuit Neon"
Warp	~/.warp/themes/	Settings, Appearance, Themes
foot	~/.config/foot/	include=~/.config/foot/silkcircuit-neon.ini
iTerm2	imported through Settings	Profiles, Colors, Color Presets
Windows Terminal	Fragments directory	"colorScheme": "SilkCircuit Neon"

Multiplexers get their own pages: tmux and Zellij.

Or run the installer, which detects what you have and themes all of it:

./install.sh              # every variant, side by side
./install.sh --variant glow

ANSI colors

Every target carries the same 16 ANSI slots, taken verbatim from the terminal_* keys of the variant. Nothing is retuned per terminal, so ls --color in Kitty and the same command in WezTerm produce identical pixels.

The authoritative values are in palette/silkcircuit-<variant>.json under the terminal key, alongside every other palette color as hex, RGB, and HSL. The same directory carries base16 and base24 scheme files for tinted-theming builders such as tinty and stylix.

True color

Every terminal here enables true color by default. Inside tmux it needs help:

set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"
set -ag terminal-overrides ",xterm-256color:RGB"

Over SSH, make sure TERM survives the hop:

export TERM=xterm-256color

If colors still look flat, check that $COLORTERM reads truecolor.