semtle / base16

Syntax highlighting for hackers

Base16 provides carefully chosen syntax highlighting and a default set of sixteen colors suitable for a wide range of applications. Base16 is not a single theme but a set of guidelines with numerous implementations.

Documentation

• Styling Guidelines
• Builder Guidelines
• File Guidelines

Previewing Themes

To test the different Base 16 themes out, check out https://chriskempson.github.io/base16/.

Template Repositories

To add your own template, submit a pull request to https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-templates-source and add your repository to the list below. Repository naming scheme: base16-[template-name] (with dashes as separators).

• Alacritty maintained by aaron-williamson
• C Header maintained by m1sports20
• Crosh maintained by philj56
• Dunst maintained by khamer
• Emacs maintained by belak
• Gnome Terminal maintained by aaron-williamson
• GTK+2 maintained by dawikur
• Highlight maintained by bezhermoso
• HTML Previews maintained by chriskempson
• i3 maintained by khamer
• Kakoune maintained by leira
• Konsole maintained by cskeeters
• MinTTY maintained by geoffstokes
• MonoDevelop maintained by netpyoung
• Prism maintained by atelierbram
• PuTTY maintained by benjojo
• Pygments maintained by mohd-akram
• Qt Creator maintained by ilpianista
• Shell maintained by chriskempson
• Termite maintained by khamer
• TextMate & Sublime Text maintained by chriskempson
• Vim maintained by chriskempson
• Windows Command Prompt maintained by iamthad
• XFCE4 Terminal maintained by afg984
• Xresources maintained by chriskempson

Scheme Repositories

To add your own scheme, submit a pull request to https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-schemes-source and add your repository to the list below. Repository naming scheme: base16-[scheme-name]-scheme (with dashes as separators).

• Atelier maintained by atelierbram
• Circus maintained by stepchowfun and ewang12
• Default maintained by chriskempson
• Dracula maintained by mikebarkmin
• Github maintained by Defman21
• Gruvbox maintained by dawikur
• Materia maintained by Defman21
• Mexico-Light maintained by drzel
• Onedark maintained by tilal6991
• One Light maintained by purpleKarrot
• Summerfruit maintained by cscorley
• Tomorrow maintained by chriskempson
• Twilight maintained by hartbit
• Unikitty maintained by joshwlewis
• Woodland maintained by jcornwall
• Cupertino maintained by Defman21
• Old Unclaimed Schemes - If your scheme is in this repository, please give it a new home!

Builder Repositories

Repository naming scheme: base16-builder-[language] (with dashes as separators).

• Base 16 Builder Clojure maintained by nhurden
• Base 16 Builder Go maintained by belak
• Base 16 Builder Perl maintained by loomer
• Base 16 Builder PHP maintained by chriskempson
• Base 16 Builder Node.js maintained by richardneililagan
• Base 16 Builder Rust maintained by ilpianista
• Base 16 Builder Ruby maintained by obahareth

Scheme and Template Author Resources

The following is a list of useful resources for anyone creating a base16 scheme and or template:

• Code Examples - A list of example code file for various languages.
• TmTheme Editor - An online editor for themes in tmTheme format.

Tools for using Base16

• base16-schemer - A PHP script that will install multiple base16 template files with a single command.

Projects using Base16

• Atom Editor Atom.io
• c-Tiles16 - Colorscheming with Variables.
• Spacegray - A set of custom UI themes for Sublime Text 2/3.
• Harmonic16 - A color generator for harmonic base16 color-schemes.
• Duotone-base16 - A Duotone scheme to Base16 convertor.
• terminal.sexy - Terminal Color Scheme Designer