Base9
A system for generating themes for various apps using color science based on 9 colors that user prefers.
Go to https://base9-theme.github.io for demo and guided setup.
It is a spiritual successor of base16, but offers better color theme and is more user friendly. It is also inspired by themer.dev. For more info, see history and vision
How to it works
Color theme are generated from a palette consisting of 9 colors:
Background, foreground and 7 additional colors in order of importance.
Base9 Bulder will generate more colors based on the palette using color science. It will blend colors as necessary to create different shades, pick the red color for error, etc.
Lastly, it will generate theme files for specific apps using mustache.
Where code lives
This repo only hosts the general base9 documentations.
- base9-builder hosts the core logic.
- base9-templates hosts the base9 templates (which is used to generate themes) for each supported apps. Although some more complicated templates are only referenced there and are hosted in separate repo.
- base9-theme.github.io hosts the official website.
Contribute
See CONTRIBUTE.md