mistpine for Ghostty: cool, misty grays over a deep blue-green night, with muted, earthy accents. It is the Ghostty port of mistpine and follows the mistpine spec: every color is the spec's, generated from its palette file and checked against Ghostty itself.
- The 16 ANSI colors, background, foreground, cursor and selection from the spec's terminal table. ANSI 0 is a raised surface, not the background, so black-on-default output stays visible.
- Search highlights in the spec's search colors: matches on a yellow blend, the selected match in orange (Ghostty 1.3+).
- Split dividers in the border color; unfocused splits recede toward the darkest surface.
- Colors only: fonts, opacity, padding and keybindings stay yours.
The screenshots are the real app, Ghostty 1.4 on Linux, and the render fails if a single theme color comes out different from the spec.
Requires Ghostty 1.3 or later (ghostty +version).
mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
curl -fsSL -o ~/.config/ghostty/themes/mistpine \
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistpine/mistpine.ghostty/main/themes/mistpineThen set the theme in your Ghostty config (~/.config/ghostty/config, or
open it with ctrl+, / cmd+,) and reload it (ctrl+shift+, /
cmd+shift+,):
theme = mistpineThe same path works on macOS. To follow updates with git pull instead,
clone this repository and point theme at the file:
theme = /path/to/mistpine.ghostty/themes/mistpine.
mistpine is dark only. To switch with the system appearance, pair it with a
light theme: theme = dark:mistpine,light:<a light theme>.
On Ghostty 1.2 or older, the four search-* lines are unknown keys: upgrade,
or delete them from the file.
Anything in your config overrides the theme. Options mistpine leaves to you:
# Derive the 256-color palette (16-255) from mistpine's 16 colors, so
# 256-color apps match the theme too (Ghostty 1.3+).
palette-generate = true
# Draw the GTK titlebar and tabs in the terminal colors.
window-theme = ghostty
# Dim unfocused splits more (default 0.7; 1 turns dimming off).
unfocused-split-opacity = 0.6
# Bold text in the bright colors. The spec keeps bold in its own color.
bold-color = bright| Ghostty | mistpine |
|---|---|
background, foreground |
bg1 #0b1f27, fg3 #c4c9d0 |
cursor-color, cursor-text |
fg3, bg1 |
selection-background, selection-foreground |
bg4 #26414a, #d0d1d6 |
palette = 0..15 |
the spec's terminal table |
search-background, search-foreground |
searchBg #464b3c, fg3 |
search-selected-background, search-selected-foreground |
curSearchBg #c98b56 (orange), bg1 |
split-divider-color |
border #26414a |
unfocused-split-fill |
panelBg #071921 |
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Requires Node 24+ and pnpm (corepack enable).
pnpm install
pnpm generate # themes/mistpine from the mistpine spec
pnpm check # fail if themes/mistpine is out of date
pnpm verify # Ghostty validates the theme and resolves every color to the spec
pnpm render # README screenshots from real Ghostty under Xvfb
pnpm banner # assets/banner.svg and the social preview (Chromium)
pnpm lint && pnpm typecheckNever edit themes/mistpine by hand. scripts/generate.ts maps each Ghostty
key to a spec token and reads the colors from
palette/mistpine.json
(from $MISTPINE_DIR, ../mistpine or GitHub), so color changes happen
upstream. It also recomputes the spec's blends and requires 4.5:1 for text on
the theme's backgrounds.
pnpm verify needs Ghostty 1.3+ ($GHOSTTY or ghostty on PATH). CI runs
it against the Ghostty snap. pnpm render also needs Xvfb, xdotool,
ImageMagick, git, ripgrep, eza and Neovim with the Python Tree-sitter parser,
plus a checkout of mistpine.nvim
($MISTPINE_NVIM, default ../mistpine.nvim). It runs Ghostty with software
OpenGL on a sample repository in scripts/render, installs the theme by
name in an isolated config and checks the screenshots' pixels against the
theme.
- Designed in themes.utimura.io.
- Outfit and JetBrains Mono in the banner. The screenshots use JetBrains Mono as built into Ghostty.
MIT. Outfit and JetBrains Mono (in scripts/fonts, for the banner) are under the
SIL Open Font License 1.1.