Shchemes will support any theme format, app, or scheme you want, with a little leg work. It is less than 300 lines. It can go anywhere bash will, and will comfortably live in your dotfiles. Compare with tinty.

Installation

Clone the repo with submodules

git clone --recurse-submodules https://git.sys42.net/dakedres/shchemes.git

Symlink to it somewhere in your PATH. Pick your poison

ln -s $PWD/shchemes ~/bin/shchemes
ln -s $PWD/shchemes ~/.local/bin/shchemes

Usage

Install your favorite base16 themes from tinted-themes:

shchemes install_tinted_scheme --scheme=monokai

You can also exclude --scheme from any of these commands and it will read from your SCHEME environment variable.

Append your theme to a config

shchemes --scheme=base16:monokai create_theme kitty >> ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

If you want to be able to hotswap themes, you'll probably need to use injection.

echo "#START SHCHEMES BLOCK : shchemes create_theme kitty" >> ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf # Add the comment for the injection block
shchemes --scheme=base16:monokai inject ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf # Inject the theme

Here's an example script:

export SCHEME="base16:horizon-terminal-dark"

shchemes install_tinted_scheme

shchemes inject "${HOME}/.config/kitty/kitty.conf"
shchemes inject "$HOME/.config/rofi/config.rasi"

bspwm_theme="$HOME/.config/bspwm/colors"
shchemes create_theme bspwm > "$bspwm_theme"
"$bspwm_theme"

shchemes inject "${HOME}/.config/qutebrowser/config.py"
pkill -HUP qutebrowser # Reload qutebrowser config

Note you'll have to add all the comments for where to place the injections

See the cookbook for some ideas on ways to use Shchemes.

You can read the manual in your browser or by running shchemes help.

Credits

This software is a work of opportunism

mo - Mustache templates in bash. Shchemes wouldn't be possible without it.
tinted-theming/schemes - Several base16 themes
deathbeam/base16-discord - The base16 better-discord target
mk12/base16-kitty - The base16 kitty target