SP Night for Ghostty

The sodium lamp turns the whole city this colour.
A dark colour scheme with São Paulo as its reference — the sodium street lamp,
exposed concrete, the free span of the MASP, the drizzle before the rain.

sp-night.github.io  ·  palette  ·  spec  ·  ports

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The flavours

All three are dark, by decision. The previews below are synthetic — drawn from the palette itself, so they can never drift from what you install.

Noite Paulista — sp_night_noite

The city at 3am. Blue-violet dark, the sodium lamp burning warm on top.

Garoa — sp_night_garoa

The same window, seen through the drizzle. Flat grey — the garoa does not cool the city down, it washes it out.

Pico do Jaraguá — sp_night_jaragua

The same night, seen from the city's highest point. Near-black surfaces, with the forest left to the accents — and the red-and-white tower lit at the summit.

Install

Ghostty resolves theme = <name> against ~/.config/ghostty/themes/ by exact file name — which is why the theme files deliberately have no extension.

Grab the flavour you want (or all three):

mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
curl -Lo ~/.config/ghostty/themes/sp_night_noite \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sp-night/ghostty/main/themes/sp_night_noite

Then enable it in ~/.config/ghostty/config:

theme = sp_night_noite

Reload the configuration (ctrl+shift+, on Linux, cmd+shift+, on macOS) or open a new window.

Prefer a checkout? Clone and copy — the files are plain text, there is no build:

git clone https://github.com/sp-night/ghostty.git
cp ghostty/themes/* ~/.config/ghostty/themes/

What gets themed

Ghostty key	Role	Meaning
palette = 0…15	ansi.*	the full 16-colour ANSI mapping
background / foreground	ui.bg / ui.fg	laje under the main text
cursor-color / cursor-text	ui.cursor / ui.on_accent	the sódio cursor, dark text inside it
selection-background / -foreground	ui.selection / ui.fg	vidro, glass reflecting the street
split-divider-color	ui.border	fiação, overhead wiring cutting the sky
unfocused-split-fill	ui.bg_deep	vão, the deepest recess

No hex in this repo was picked by hand. Every value comes from the SP Night palette through its role layer, both published as data: palette.json and roles.json. The contrast floors those colours have to clear are written down in the spec and enforced in CI.

The mapping

ghostty.tmpl is the full record of which Ghostty key means which role — the table above in complete form. The files in themes/ are what it resolves to, one per flavour.

You never need it to use the theme: the shipped files are plain text and final. It is here so the mapping survives, and so a retuned palette can be rolled through this port without anyone re-deciding what cursor-color means.

License

MIT