vivid is a manager for LS_COLORS expressions to control the colorized output of ls, tree, fd, etc.

It uses a YAML-based configuration format for the filetype-database and the color themes. In contrast to dircolors, the database and the themes are organized in different files. This allows different users to choose different themes. Instead of using (cryptic) ANSI escape codes, colors can be specified in the RRGGBB format and will be translated to either truecolor (24-bit) ANSI codes or 8-bit codes for older terminal emulators.

export LS_COLORS="$(vivid generate filetypes.yml --theme themes/molokai.yml)"

By default, vivid runs in true color mode (24-bit). If you don't use a terminal that supports 24-bit colors, use the --color-mode 8-bit option when running vivid.

wget "https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid/releases/download/v0.3.0/vivid_0.3.0_amd64.deb"
sudo dpkg -i vivid_0.3.0_amd64.deb

Check out the release page for binary builds.

If you have Rust 1.30 or higher, you can install vivid from source via cargo:

cargo install vivid

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

• https://github.com/karlding/dirchromatic
• https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS
• https://geoff.greer.fm/lscolors/
• LS_COLORS themes:
  • https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized
  • https://github.com/ivoarch/dircolors-zenburn
  • https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-dircolors