SP Night for kitty

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.conf

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

Garoa — sp_night_garoa.conf

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.conf

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

kitty reads a theme through an include in its own config, so the file goes next to kitty.conf and nothing overwrites it.

Grab the flavour you want (or all three):

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

Then add the include to ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf:

include sp_night_noite.conf

Reload with ctrl+shift+f5 (cmd+ctrl+, on macOS), or open a new window.

Note

Put the include after anything else that sets colours — kitty applies the last value it reads, so an earlier background in your own config wins.

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

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

What gets themed

kitty key	Role	Meaning
color0…color15	ansi.*	the full 16-colour ANSI mapping
background / foreground	ui.bg / ui.fg	laje under the main text
cursor / cursor_text_color	ui.cursor / ui.on_accent	the sódio cursor, dark text inside it
selection_background / _foreground	ui.selection / ui.fg	vidro, glass reflecting the street
url_color	ui.link	links in marginal, the expressway sign
active_border_color / inactive_border_color	ui.border_active / ui.border	the focused split in sódio, the rest in fiação
bell_border_color	diagnostic.warn	a bell is a warning, not an accent
active_tab_* / inactive_tab_*	ui.selection / ui.panel	the active tab lifts to glass, the others stay concrete
tab_bar_background	ui.bg_deep	the tab bar recedes into the vão
mark1_background…mark3_background	ui.accent / syntax.type / syntax.function	three marks that have to be told apart, so they differ by hue

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

kitty.conf.tmpl is the full record of which kitty 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 a bell border means.

License

MIT