Custom Themes

What is it

Warp supports Custom Themes which can be created manually, via the warp-themes.com tool, or downloaded from our repo.

Examples and a collection of themes can be found in the Warp themes repository.

Warp's Custom Theme Repository

We have a repository of themes hosted on GitHub.

Each theme has a preview generated in the README.

The main difference between "standard" and "base16" themes is that "standard" themes follow the typical color setup, while "base16" themes follow the framework suggested by @chriskempson.

There are 2 ways to install a theme from this repo.

Download just a single file and follow the steps in the section below.
Clone the entire repo into ~/.warp/

cd ~/.warp/
git clone https://github.com/warpdotdev/themes.git

Here is a step-by-step YouTube video that goes through these 2 steps for an example theme.

How do I use a custom theme in Warp?

To start, create a config directory in your home directory:

mkdir -p ~/.warp/themes/

Note: It may take several minutes for Warp to initially discover the new config directory. You can either wait or just restart the application. After that step, all future changes to ~/.warp/themes directory will be reflected in Warp within seconds.

2. Add your new custom theme yaml theme file to this directory:

cp ~/Downloads/my_awesome_theme.yaml ~/.warp/themes/

Your new theme should now be visible on the list of available themes.

Create your own custom theme (manually)

Warp supports creating custom themes using .yaml files.

The format itself might expand, but we'll do our best to avoid breaking changes and maintain forward compatibility. We also plan on supporting sharing/creating custom themes directly within Warp.

A custom theme in Warp has the following .yaml structure:

accent: '#268bd2' # Accent color for UI elements
background: '#002b36' # Terminal background color
details: darker # Whether the theme is lighter or darker.
foreground: '#839496' # The foreground color.
terminal_colors: # Ansi escape colors.
  bright:
    black: '#002b36'
    blue: '#839496'
    cyan: '#93a1a1'
    green: '#586e75'
    magenta: '#6c71c4'
    red: '#cb4b16'
    white: '#fdf6e3'
    yellow: '#657b83'
  normal:
    black: '#073642'
    blue: '#268bd2'
    cyan: '#2aa198'
    green: '#859900'
    magenta: '#d33682'
    red: '#dc322f'
    white: '#eee8d5'
    yellow: '#b58900'

Each color is represented in hex and must start with #.

accent: Color used for highlights in Warp's UI
background: Color of background
foreground: Color of foreground
details: Color used for detailing options
darker: Color used for dark theme
lighter: Color used for light-mode theme
terminal_theme: Collection of normal & bright colors (16 total) known for other terminal themes (ansi colors)

Create your own custom theme with Warp-Themes.com

Warp-Themes.com is a web app built entirely by community member Torben Haack. The tool allows you to visually customize your own terminal theme with a few simple color selections, then download that theme file and have Warp load it into its theme picker. Please see more on how to use the app in our Warp-Themes blog post.

Background Images and Gradients

To add a background image you can use this attribute: background_image: with the name of the image you want to use as the background.

Note: Warp currently only supports images with the .jpg file format:

.jpeg
.jpg
.JPEG

Here is what a .yaml config looks like:

accent: '#268bd2'
background: '#002b36'
details: darker
foreground: '#839496'

############################################################### SEE BELOW
background_image:
  # the path is relative to ~/.warp/themes/
  # the full path to the picture is: ~/.warp/themes/warp.jpg
  path: warp.jpg
  # the opacity value is required and can range from 0-100
  opacity: 60
############################################################### SEE ABOVE

terminal_colors:
  bright:
    black: '#002b36'
    blue: '#839496'
    cyan: '#93a1a1'
    green: '#586e75'
    magenta: '#6c71c4'
    red: '#cb4b16'
    white: '#fdf6e3'
    yellow: '#657b83'
  normal:
    black: '#073642'
    blue: '#268bd2'
    cyan: '#2aa198'
    green: '#859900'
    magenta: '#d33682'
    red: '#dc322f'
    white: '#eee8d5'
    yellow: '#b58900'

To set up a gradient, create a sublevel under accent with two key-value pairs:

"left" and "right" or
"top" and "bottom".

accent:
  top: '#abcdef'
  bottom: '#fedcba'

accent:
   left: '#abcdef'
   right: '#fedcba'

Warp also supports setting a gradient for the background.

# accent has a gradient
accent:
  left: '#474747'
  right: '#ffffff'
# background has a gradient
background:
  top: '#474747'
  bottom: '#ffffff'

Contributing

Contributions to this repo are greatly appreciated!

Fork the project
Create your branch (git checkout -b theme/AwesomeTheme)
Regenerate thumbnails
Commit and open a pull request

Run this script to generate the thumbnails.

# assuming you're adding the theme to the `standard` directory:
python3 ./scripts/gen_theme_previews.py standard

Note: We cannot accept pull requests that include custom background images because:

Licensing restrictions
Trying to keep the binary size of the repo as small as possible (just the yaml files)

If your theme has an intended custom background image, include a comment in the yaml with a link to where people should download it.

Community

All other Warp-related things can be discussed in our Warp official repo or our Discord server.

Open source dependencies

We'd like to call out a few of the open-source themes and repositories that helped bootstrap the set of themes for Warp:

PreviousThemes NextCompact Mode

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