Delightful for Ghostty

Warm, OKLCH-derived color themes for the Ghostty terminal emulator.

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Install

Quick (curl)

mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kylesnav/delightful-ghostty/main/themes/delightful-light -o ~/.config/ghostty/themes/delightful-light
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kylesnav/delightful-ghostty/main/themes/delightful-dark -o ~/.config/ghostty/themes/delightful-dark

Manual

git clone https://github.com/kylesnav/delightful-ghostty.git
mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
cp delightful-ghostty/themes/delightful-light delightful-ghostty/themes/delightful-dark ~/.config/ghostty/themes/

Then set your theme in ~/.config/ghostty/config:

theme = delightful-light

Or delightful-dark for dark mode.

What's Included

• themes/delightful-light -- Light theme with warm cream background
• themes/delightful-dark -- Dark theme with warm charcoal background
• config -- Opinionated Ghostty configuration (fonts, keybinds, window chrome, tmux integration)
• shaders/ -- Optional GLSL post-processing effects (vignette, bloom)

Config

The included config goes beyond colors -- JetBrains Mono with OpenType features, macOS tab bar, equalized splits (Cmd+D / Cmd+Shift+D), copy-on-select, and 10M scrollback. This is opinionated and personal; the themes work independently without it.

cp config ~/.config/ghostty/config

Shaders

Optional GLSL post-processing effects (vignette, bloom):

# macOS
cp shaders/*.glsl ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.mitchellh.ghostty/shaders/

# Linux
cp shaders/*.glsl ~/.config/ghostty/shaders/

Uncomment the custom-shader lines in your config to enable.

Color Mapping

All colors map to Delightful Design System tokens. Blue slots use the cyan hue at different lightness levels since Delightful has no dedicated blue.

Full token mapping

Terminal Color	Design Token	Light	Dark
Background	bg-page	#fdf8f3	#1e1a16
Foreground	text-primary	#1b150f	#eee9e3
Cursor	accent-primary (pink)	#f600a3	#ff4fa8
Selection BG	accent-primary-subtle	#ffe6f4	#3d2235
Black	neutral-950	#16100c	#1e1a16
Red	red-400	#ed324b	#e8554c
Green	green-400	#22a448	#3aad5f
Yellow	gold-400	#febf00	#f5c526
Blue	cyan-400	#00a6c0	#00a6c0
Magenta	pink-400	#f600a3	#ff4fa8
Cyan	cyan-300	#17c0d6	#5cb8d6
White	neutral-100	#f6f1eb	#eee9e3

Part of Delightful

This theme is part of the Delightful Design System -- a warm, neo-brutalist design system built on OKLCH color science.

Other terminal ports:

• delightful-starship -- Starship prompt theme
• delightful-shell -- tmux, zsh config, and terminal utilities
• delightful-iterm2 -- iTerm2 color profiles

License

MIT