ghostty-styles

A terminal UI for browsing, previewing, and applying Ghostty themes.

Fetches themes from ghostty-style.vercel.app, displays live color previews using OSC escape sequences, and applies themes directly to your Ghostty config file.

Requires the Ghostty terminal to run.

Features

• Browse hundreds of community themes with search, tag filtering, and sorting (Popular / Newest / Trending)
• Live preview — press p to apply theme colors to your terminal in real-time via OSC sequences (restored on exit)
• Apply themes directly to your Ghostty config with automatic backup
• Filter by dark/light mode, tags (retro, pastel, neon, minimal, etc.), and text search
• Vim-style navigation — j/k/h/l, arrow keys, or Enter to drill into details

Install

Homebrew

brew tap mcfearsome/tap
brew install ghostty-styles

From source

cargo install --path .

Build manually

git clone https://github.com/mcfearsome/ghostty.styles.tui.git
cd ghostty.styles.tui
cargo build --release
# Binary is at target/release/ghostty-styles

Usage

ghostty-styles

Must be run inside a Ghostty terminal session.

Keybindings

Browse screen

Detail screen

Applying themes

When you apply a theme, ghostty-styles will:

1. Create a backup of your config at config.bak
2. Remove existing color keys (background, foreground, palette, cursor-color, etc.)
3. Append the theme's configuration

Config file locations:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/com.mitchellh.ghostty/config
• Linux: ~/.config/ghostty/config

License

MIT