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Terminal Themes

TachiBot provides beautiful terminal themes for ANSI output styling. Choose from 4 built-in themes or create your own custom themes via JSON.

NebulaModern SaaS, soft pastels
CyberpunkNeon on black, Blade Runner
MinimalSwiss typography, monochrome
OceanCool blues and teals

Quick Setup

Set your theme via environment variable:

.bashrc / .zshrc

Built-in Themes

Nebula (Default)

Inspired by VS Code, Linear, and Vercel. Soft pastels that are easy on the eyes for long sessions.

#5F87FF(primary)#5FAF5F(success)#FFAF5F(accent)#FF5F5F(error)
  • Rounded box borders for cards and code blocks
  • Gradient dividers (vice, mind, cristal presets)
  • Model badges: Blue (Gemini), Magenta (Grok), Green (OpenAI), Cyan (Perplexity)

Cyberpunk

High contrast neon on black. Blade Runner vibes with bold HUD-style elements.

#FF00FF(primary)#00FFFF(secondary)#FFFF00(accent)#00FF00(success)
  • Double-line box borders for emphasis
  • Rainbow gradient dividers
  • All-caps model badge labels with icons

Minimal

Swiss typography-inspired. Mostly monochrome with color only where essential.

#FFFFFF(primary)#CCCCCC(secondary)#888888(muted)#666666(border)
  • Single-line borders, minimal decoration
  • Simple bullets: bullet, circle, hyphen
  • Model badges with dark background, colored text

Ocean

Cool blues and teals. Calm and professional aesthetic.

#00CED1(primary)#4169E1(secondary)#00FA9A(success)#FFD700(warning)
  • Rounded borders with teal accents
  • Wave-pattern dividers (atlas, morning presets)
  • Blue-toned model badges

Theme Components

Each theme defines consistent styling for:

Model Badges

Styled badges for AI providers using ink-gradient. Each model has a unique gradient preset for visual distinction:

gemini → cristalgrok → passionopenai → teenperplexity → mindclaude → atlaskimi → morningqwen → fruit

Headers (h1-h4)

Hierarchical heading styles with color-coded backgrounds (nebula/ocean) or text styling (cyberpunk/minimal).

Status Indicators

Success, error, warning, and info badges with appropriate color coding for each theme's palette.

Dividers & Gradients

Thin/thick dividers, 256-color gradients (blue-to-purple, cyan-to-magenta, rainbow), and decorative separators.

Box Drawing

Table characters and code block borders: rounded, sharp, or double-line styles depending on theme.

Nerd Font Icons

TachiBot themes use Nerd Fonts for rich terminal icons. These are patched fonts that include glyphs from Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, Powerline, and more.

Recommended Fonts

  • JetBrains Mono Nerd Font — Clean, modern, great for code
  • FiraCode Nerd Font — Popular with ligature support
  • Hack Nerd Font — Excellent readability
  • MesloLGS Nerd Font — Default for Oh My Zsh/Powerlevel10k

Installation

After installing, set your terminal's font to the Nerd Font variant (e.g., "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font").

Icons Used in Themes

TachiBot uses Nerd Font icons for model badges, status indicators, and UI elements:

nf-md-diamond — Gemininf-md-lightning_bolt — Groknf-md-circle — OpenAInf-md-compass — Perplexitynf-md-check_circle — Successnf-md-close_circle — Errornf-md-alert — Warningnf-md-folder — Directorynf-md-file — File

Browse all icons at nerdfonts.com/cheat-sheet

No Nerd Font?

TachiBot gracefully falls back to ASCII characters if Nerd Fonts aren't detected. Icons become simple text like [✓], [✗], [!], etc.

Custom JSON Themes

Create custom themes by adding JSON files to the themes/ directory:

themes/dracula.json

Model Badge Gradients

Model badges use gradient-string presets for TrueColor terminal gradients. Available presets:

cristalteenmindmorningvicepassionfruitatlasretrorainbowpastelinstagram

Or use custom colors: "gradient": ["#ff0000", "#00ff00", "#0000ff"]

Theme Inheritance

Use the extends property to inherit from a built-in theme. Only override what you need:

  • "extends": "nebula" - Inherit soft pastel base
  • "extends": "cyberpunk" - Inherit neon aesthetics
  • "extends": "minimal" - Inherit monochrome base
  • "extends": "ocean" - Inherit blue palette

Color Formats

Custom themes support multiple color formats:

  • Hex colors: "#FF00FF"
  • ANSI 256: "141" (number as string)
  • Named colors: "magenta", "cyan", "white"

Theme Showcase Script

Preview themes in your terminal:

Pro Tip: Theme Matching

Match your TachiBot theme to your terminal's color scheme for the best visual coherence. Nebula works well with VS Code's default dark theme, Cyberpunk with Synthwave '84, and Ocean with One Dark Pro.

Render Output Modes

Control how TachiBot renders output with the RENDER_OUTPUT environment variable:

  • ink — Full React Ink rendering with themes, gradient progress bars, and rich tables
  • ansi — Legacy marked-terminal renderer for simpler ANSI output
  • markdown — Raw markdown, useful for piping to other tools
  • plain — No styling at all, pure text output

ANSI Strip for LLM Context

When TachiBot output is fed back into an LLM context, ANSI escape codes waste tokens and can confuse models. Enable ANSI stripping to automatically remove color codes from context while keeping beautiful terminal output for humans:

How it works

You see: \x1b[32m✓ Success\x1b[0m (green text)
LLM sees: ✓ Success (clean text)

Next Steps

Tools Config
Configure which tools to load
Workflows
Build multi-step AI orchestrations
Examples
See themes in action