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Color scheme with a pure black background? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was wondering if anyone knew any color schemes with a pure black background (#000000)? Every theme I could think of used something lighter colored so I wanted to know if I was missing some.

The motivation is partially I think it would look cool and partially the potential for lower power usage on an oled screen.

Edit: primarily asking for color scheme suggestions for my window manager and terminal, less so how to theme

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You probably already know, but scheme artists avoid pure #000000 out of contrast concerns. (e.g. DarkReader can give some headaches if the background is straight black with offwhite text). That makes a #000000 scheme very rare - manual intervention required :P

If you still wanna get crackin', just tweak a preexisting dark theme and change navies/greys to black. And if you're talking about the palette instead of actual themes to install, this still works -- just check the source for whatever colors they're using and tweak those. (grep for hexes then sort uniq? shell exercise is left to the reader)

I'd recommend taking one of vinceliuice's themes and just turning navy blues into blacks. For example, Graphite-gtk (has a matching qt theme) is pretty grey even with a --black tweak, but you could blacken it with some effort. Same with Colloid-gtk (also has a --black tweak).

You could probably even blackify the KDE theme's greys if you so fancied, but then you'd need to tune down the contrast on the other colors in the set. And this and that...

If this is too inexact an answer, then ouch. I wish you luck!