dircolors Themes

Reusable dircolors profiles and palette helpers for ANSI-slot-based terminals.

This repository currently includes:

• pastel.dircolors: custom Pastel dircolors profile
• pastel_palette.sh: shell exports for the Pastel palette and default profile colors
• pastel_ls_colors_preview.sh: static LS_COLORS preview for the Pastel profile
• nord.dircolors: Nord-based dircolors profile
• Pastel.colorscheme: Konsole color scheme that maps the 16 ANSI slots to the Pastel palette
• Nord.colorscheme: Konsole color scheme that maps the 16 ANSI slots to the Nord palette

Usage

Apply a profile directly with dircolors:

eval "$(dircolors -b ./pastel.dircolors)"
eval "$(dircolors -b ./nord.dircolors)"

Load the Pastel palette metadata into your current shell:

source ./pastel_palette.sh
echo "$PASTEL_PROFILE_FOREGROUND_HEX"
echo "$PASTEL_ANSI_12_HEX"

Konsole Color Schemes

The Pastel.colorscheme and Nord.colorscheme files are drop-in Konsole color schemes that paint the 16 ANSI slots to match the matching dircolors profile in this repository. To install:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/konsole
cp Pastel.colorscheme Nord.colorscheme ~/.local/share/konsole/

Then in Konsole: Settings → Edit Current Profile → Appearance and pick Pastel or Nord. Bold-bright behavior (whether bold text uses the brighter slot 8–15 variant) is a per-profile setting under the same Appearance tab (Use intense colors for bold text); the schemes themselves do not force it either way.

ANSI Palette Note

dircolors only emits ANSI SGR codes such as 34, 95, or 44. The final appearance therefore depends on how your terminal maps ANSI color slots 0 through 15.

• The Pastel profile ships its intended slot values in pastel_palette.sh.
• The Nord profile assumes the standard nord0 through nord15 mapping used by the upstream Nord project and its color palette documentation.

Pastel

Pastel is a soft custom palette with a very dark background, a bright off-white foreground, and low-harshness accent colors for the 16 ANSI terminal slots.

Profile Colors

Sample	Role	Slot	ANSI	Hex	RGB
	Foreground	fg	default foreground	#eff0f3	239 240 243
	Background	bg	default background	#191a1c	25 26 28

ANSI Palette

Sample	Role	Slot	ANSI	Hex	RGB
	Black	0	30 / 40	#1e1f22	30 31 34
	Red	1	31 / 41	#f89494	248 148 148
	Green	2	32 / 42	#b2e4a7	178 228 167
	Yellow	3	33 / 43	#ffef9f	255 239 159
	Blue	4	34 / 44	#a9c7f1	169 199 241
	Magenta	5	35 / 45	#cfbaf0	207 186 240
	Cyan	6	36 / 46	#96c2c6	150 194 198
	White	7	37 / 47	#f1edfb	241 237 251
	Bright black	8	90 / 100	#393b40	57 59 64
	Bright red	9	91 / 101	#fda5ac	253 165 172
	Bright green	10	92 / 102	#b9fbc0	185 251 192
	Bright yellow	11	93 / 103	#fdffb6	253 255 182
	Bright blue	12	94 / 104	#b1e5f7	177 229 247
	Bright magenta	13	95 / 105	#f1c7e9	241 199 233
	Bright cyan	14	96 / 106	#c0fdff	192 253 255
	Bright white	15	97 / 107	#fcfcfc	252 252 252

Nord

Nord is an arctic, north-bluish palette created by the Nord project and documented in the official colors and palettes reference. The nord.dircolors file in this repository follows the canonical nord0 through nord15 slot numbering used for terminal color compatibility.

Sample	Token	Slot	ANSI	Hex	Palette
	nord0	0	30 / 40	#2e3440	Polar Night
	nord1	1	31 / 41	#3b4252	Polar Night
	nord2	2	32 / 42	#434c5e	Polar Night
	nord3	3	33 / 43	#4c566a	Polar Night
	nord4	4	34 / 44	#d8dee9	Snow Storm
	nord5	5	35 / 45	#e5e9f0	Snow Storm
	nord6	6	36 / 46	#eceff4	Snow Storm
	nord7	7	37 / 47	#8fbcbb	Frost
	nord8	8	90 / 100	#88c0d0	Frost
	nord9	9	91 / 101	#81a1c1	Frost
	nord10	10	92 / 102	#5e81ac	Frost
	nord11	11	93 / 103	#bf616a	Aurora
	nord12	12	94 / 104	#d08770	Aurora
	nord13	13	95 / 105	#ebcb8b	Aurora
	nord14	14	96 / 106	#a3be8c	Aurora
	nord15	15	97 / 107	#b48ead	Aurora

Sources

• Pastel values are defined locally in pastel_palette.sh.
• Nord palette values come from the official Nord project and its Colors and Palettes documentation.