An architecture for building themes based on carefully chosen syntax highlighting using a base of sixteen colors. Base16 provides a set of guidelines detailing how to style syntax and how to code a builder for compiling Base16 schemes and templates.

• Styling Guidelines
• Builder Guidelines
• File Guidelines

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
• Binary Ninja maintained by evanrichter
• Blink maintained by niklaas
• C Header maintained by m1sports20
• ConCfg maintained by h404bi
• ConEmu maintained by martinlindhe
• Console2 maintained by AFulgens
• ConsoleZ maintained by AFulgens
• Crosh maintained by philj56
• CSS, Less, Sass/Scss & Stylus maintained by samme
• Dunst maintained by khamer
• Emacs maintained by belak
• fzf maintained by nicodebo
• Gnome Terminal maintained by aaron-williamson
• Godot maintained by Calinou
• GTK+2 maintained by dawikur
• Highlight maintained by bezhermoso
• HTML Previews maintained by chriskempson
• i3 maintained by khamer
• i3status maintained by Eluminae
• i3status-rust maintained by mystfox
• iTerm2 maintained by martinlindhe
• Jetbrains maintained by adilosa
• JOE maintained by jjjordan
• Kakoune maintained by leira
• kitty maintained by kdrag0n
• Konsole maintained by cskeeters
• mako maintained by Eluminae
• MinTTY maintained by geoffstokes
• MonoDevelop maintained by netpyoung
• Prism maintained by atelierbram
• prompt-toolkit & ipython maintained by memeplex
• PuTTY maintained by benjojo
• Pygments maintained by mohd-akram
• QOwnNotes maintained by themix-project
• Qt Creator maintained by ilpianista
• qutebrowser maintaned by theova
• Radare2 maintained by jtalowell
• Rofi maintained by 0xdec
• Scide maintained by brunoro
• Shell maintained by chriskempson
• st maintained by honza
• StumpWM maintained by tpine
• Sway maintained by rkubosz
• Termite maintained by khamer
• Termux maintained by kdrag0n
• TextMate & Sublime Text maintained by chriskempson
• Tilix maintained by karlding
• Vim maintained by chriskempson
• Vis maintained by pshevtsov
• VSCode maintained by golf1052
• Waybar maintained by mnussbaum
• Windows Command Prompt maintained by iamthad
• Xcode maintained by kreeger
• XFCE4 Terminal maintained by afg984
• Xresources maintained by binaryplease
• Xshell maintained by h404bi
• zathura maintained by nicodebo

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
• Atlas maintained by ajlende
• Black Metal maintained by metalelf0
• Brogrammer maintained by piggyslasher
• Brush Trees maintained by whiteabelincoln
• Circus maintained by stepchowfun and ewang12
• Classic maintained by detly
• Codeschool maintained by blockloop
• Cupertino maintained by Defman21
• Default maintained by chriskempson
• Dracula maintained by mikebarkmin
• Espresso maintained by alexmirrington
• Framer maintained by jssee
• Fruit Soda maintained by jozip
• Github maintained by Defman21
• Gruvbox maintained by dawikur
• Helios maintained by reyemxela
• Heetch maintained by tealeg
• Horizon maintained by michael-ball
• iA maintained by aramisgithub
• Icy maintained by icyphox
• Materia maintained by Defman21
• Material Theme maintained by ntpeters
• Material Vivid maintained by joshyrobot
• Mellow maintained by gidsi
• Mexico-Light maintained by drzel
• Nord maintained by 8-uh
• Nova maintained by gessig
• One Light maintained by purpleKarrot
• Onedark maintained by tilal6991
• Outrun maintained by hugodelahousse
• PaperColor maintained by jonleopard
• Porple maintained by AuditeMarlow
• Purpledream maintained by archmalet
• Rebecca maintained by vic
• Sandcastle maintained by gessig
• Snazzy maintained by h404bi
• Solarflare maintained by mnussbaum
• Solarized maintained by aramisgithub
• Summercamp maintained by zoe firi
• Summerfruit maintained by cscorley
• Synth Midnight maintained by michael-ball
• Tomorrow maintained by chriskempson
• Twilight maintained by hartbit
• Unikitty maintained by joshwlewis
• Woodland maintained by jcornwall
• Zenburn maintained by elnawe
• XCode Dust maintained by gonsie
• Old Unclaimed Schemes - If your scheme is in this repository, please give it a new home!

Repository naming scheme: base16-builder-[language] (with dashes as separators). The separate headings are the latest versions of the spec supported by each builder.

• Make baseXX-hex-bgr variables available to templates
• Warn when a template file has been overwritten

• Base 16 Builder Go maintained by belak
• Base 16 Builder PHP maintained by chriskempson
• Base 16 Builder Python maintained by InspectorMustache
• Base 16 Builder Rust maintained by ilpianista

• Add decimal color variables

• Base 16 Builder Ansible maintained by mnussbaum
• Base 16 Builder Clojure maintained by nhurden
• Base 16 Builder Elixir maintained by obahareth
• Base 16 Builder Ruby maintained by obahareth
• Base 16 Builder Typescript maintained by golf1052

• Clarify theme filename generation
• Various clarifications

• Base 16 Builder Perl maintained by loomer

• Drop support for HSL variables

• Base 16 Builder Node.js maintained by richardneililagan

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.
• Base16 Template Converter - A script to automatically convert Base16 templates written in the old Embedded Ruby style to the new Mustache style.

If you've written a tool for base16 feel free to add it to the list below:

• auto-base16-theme - A command line tool to create a base16 theme from an input image's color palette.
• base16-manager - A command line tool to install base16 templates and set themes globally.
• base16-shell-preview - A command line tool to preview and set base16-shell themes.
• base16-universal-manager - A command line tool to automatically get, build and set base16 themes globally for all supported applications. Themes and templates are pulled form the official repositories or from a local cache.
• Themix/Oomox - Graphical application for generating different color variations of a Arc, Materia and Oomox themes (GTK2, GTK3 and others), Archdroid, Gnome-Colors and Numix icons, and terminal palette. Base16 plugin allows to open Base16 YAML files a export both Base16 and its own themes using Base16 Mustache templates.

• Visual Studio Code - Code Editor
• Atom Editor - Code Editor
• 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