Root
Loops

Terminal color schemes for cereal lovers.

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Changelog

Root Loops is constantly evolving and packing new features to make it even sweeter to create your own, personal color schemes. If you've got a feature request or idea yourself, don't be shy to head over to our GitHub repository and open up an issue.

2024-12-07

New

  • We now finally support exporting color themes to iTerm2 as requested by chayes72. This one's been cooking for a while since iTerm2 is using a somewhat awkward XML-based configuration format and I couldn't be bothered to dive into it until now. With iTerm2 we now got support for exporting color themes in RGB format, so that should make things a little easier in case there are other exports relying on RGB instead of HSL or Hex notation.

2024-12-03

Design Tweaks!

  • The old 'plaid' background was a little bit too much after all. I've exchanged it with a slightly more calm yet still vibrant procedural gradient background.

2024-11-25

New

  • We've got a brand new export for fzf, the super handy command-line fuzzy finder.

2024-11-03

New

2024-10-04

New & Breaking Change

  • Root Loops now generates an extra 2 colors that can be used as foreground and background colors in your color schemes. This pattern deviates from the classic 4-bit color schemes but it utilizes capabilities that virtually every modern terminal emulator offers, giving us a richer color palette to work with and some more 'gray' shades to make UI elements in CLI apps look nicer. This changes the color generation algorithm compared to older version so if you come back to Root Loops and try to re-generate older recipes, you'll notice that you'll get slightly different shades of gray. Thanks to @crshrprt for requesting and testing this feature.

2024-10-05

New

  • There's now an export option for ghostty as requested by tcoopman 👻
  • And then there's a new export option for foot, a Wayland-compatible terminal emulator

2024-10-04

New

  • There's a new colortest tab in the terminal preview, as requested by @crshrprt. This will allow you to validate your colors against a wider variety of backgrounds and check if it still looks good.

2024-10-03

New

  • JSON export includes colors in hsl format alongside the existing hex format
  • Export options are now grouped by category and sorted alphabetically. This should make it easier to find the tools you're looking for in the growing list of export options. Also, can you tell that we're slowly moving beyond terminal emulators only?!
  • We got a spakin' new Changelog. You're looking at it right now!

2024-10-01

New

  • We now offer a new export option for Helix as requested by @arjpar. This is our first export for something that's not a terminal emulator, and I hope there'll be many more to come 🤙

2024-09-19

Improved

Root Loops got a major design overhaul! 💅

  • There's a new, gorgeous plaid background. Looking just like the table cloth at your grandma's kitchen table. Huge "thank you" to Alex Tretina who uploaded this one to thepatternlibrary.com.
  • All glass-like elements got a nifty overhaul. Together with the new plaid background they add a much richer glass effect with gradient backgrounds, better blurring, and highlights and shadows.
  • The input controls for your ingredients got a few design tweaks as well, making them look a little more grouped and hopefully more readable.

2024-09-01

New

DOUBLE WHAMMY!

  • New export functionality for WezTerm
  • New export functionality for Kitty

2024-08-01

New

  • You can now reset your current Root Loops recipe to the one you saved before (or to the default one if you didn't save your recipe yet). This allows you to go wild with the ingredients and go back to the recipe you liked before if you messed up.

2024-07-27

Fixed

  • Someone shared Root Loops on Twitter (yay!) and that made me realize that the Root Loops link preview is broken on Twitter (booo). I fixed that so that people who still use that dumpster fire of a website can get nice-looking previews for Root Loops.

2024-07-26

Improved

  • I added some colorful loopy circles to the page background to make the 'glass' effect of the UI elements stand out more.

2024-07-25

New

  • We've got a new "Export" widget on the page. This widget replaces the previous (quick and dirty) export page and should make it easier to jump back and forth between pouring yourself a nice bowl of root loops and exporting your colors to your favourite tools.

2024-07-15

New

  • New export function for Xresources for all you X11 window manager folks out there. i3wm users rejoice!

2024-07-02

New

  • New export function for Windows Terminal. Those poor Windows users deserve some fun, too.

2024-06-28

New

  • You can now export your color scheme to JSON which hopefully is a little more convenient than copy/pasting colors one by one into your configuration file of choice.

2024-06-16

HELLO WORLD!

After working on this on and off for about 4 months (and thinking about the concept for more than 4 years), this is the first release of Root Loops. Say hello and have fun!