Themes
22 bundled themes, and the picker in Settings > Appearance is split into Dark and Light tabs:
| Dark (14) | Light (8) |
|---|---|
| Tori Dark (default) | Tori Light |
| Ayu Dark | Atom One Light |
| Catppuccin Frappe | Ayu Light |
| Catppuccin Macchiato | Catppuccin Latte |
| Catppuccin Mocha | GitHub Light |
| Dracula | Quiet Light |
| GitHub Dark | Rose Pine Dawn |
| Monokai Pro | Solarized Light |
| Night Owl | |
| Nord | |
| One Dark Pro | |
| Shades of Purple | |
| SynthWave ’84 | |
| Tokyo Night |
Ported themes keep the source palette’s hues but always use Tori’s own status and agent colors, never repainted by the port, so working, needs you and done look the same in every theme. Switch in Settings > Appearance, or with the toggle in the top bar, which starts from your system’s light or dark preference the first time you open Tori. File icons take their hues from the theme too.
Pick a theme
Open Settings (the gear in the title bar) > Appearance > Theme. The picker has Dark and Light tabs, and themes are grouped as Bundled and From ~/.config/tori/packs/themes. The theme applies as you click it. More, in the Display title row, opens the themes in the catalog, and each one’s page installs it. Tori ships Tori Dark and Tori Light; if your settings name a theme it no longer ships, Tori offers its pack when it starts. When the selected theme came from the catalog, Update pack and Remove pack sit next to the picker.
The sun and moon button in the top bar switches between your light and dark choice. The first time you open Tori it follows your system’s appearance.
Make your own theme
A theme is one JSON file of colours. Copy a bundled one as a starting point,
give it its own id and file name, change the colours, and save it in
~/.config/tori/packs/themes/. Tori watches the folder, so the theme appears in the picker without a restart, and edits to the
file apply as you save.
{ "schemaVersion": 1, "id": "hooli", "label": "Hooli", "appearance": "dark", "colors": { "canvas": "#15171c", "card": "#1b1e25", "text": "#e4e8f0", "accent": "#4a9eff" }}The file holds flat hex colours only (#rgb, #rrggbb or #rrggbbaa), one
per role: surfaces (canvas, card, head, input, hover), lines, text,
the accent, status colours, diff and diagnostic colours, and the syntax
colours. Everything else, washes, shadows and the names the interface uses, is
worked out from those, so a theme file can never contain anything but colours.
Before a theme is used, Tori checks it is legible: text has to contrast with the surfaces behind it. A theme that fails is not offered, and if it is already selected the window keeps the theme it had and toasts say what failed, naming the colours. Fix the file and save it again.
Fonts
Settings > Appearance > Typography sets the UI font family and size, the Editor font family and size, the Terminal font family and size, and the Line height, independently. Any font installed on your Mac works. The bundled terminal font is JetBrains Mono Nerd Font, so prompt glyphs (powerline separators, devicons) render correctly without you needing to install a patched font yourself.
Zoom (Cmd+= / Cmd+- / Cmd+0) scales everything, chrome, editor and
terminal together, on top of whatever font sizes you have set, and is kept
separate from your settings file so a quick zoom in and out never touches it.