Comfy — Terminals

Terminal ports of Comfy, a theme designed for endurance rather than looks. Two variants, Comfy (light, the default) and Comfy Night.

Supports Warp, Ghostty, iTerm2, Alacritty, kitty, WezTerm, and Windows Terminal.

Why the colours sit where they do

The six chromatic ANSI slots are held inside a narrow contrast band — 5.69–6.50:1 in light, 7.47–7.71:1 in dark. A noisy build log stays one even texture instead of a fruit salad, because hue distinguishes meaning while brightness stays flat.

Two deliberate exceptions:

Black and white sit outside the band. They are structural slots, not chromatic ones — programs use them as near-background. Light-mode white is a pale grey at 3.21:1 on purpose; forcing it into the band would break every tool that expects it to recede.

Bright colours go darker in light mode, not lighter. Convention says bright means lighter, which on a paper ground makes bold output nearly invisible. Here bright is more saturated and darker, so bold stays readable.

Blue is the one forced compromise. The palette otherwise avoids saturated short-wavelength blue, because longitudinal chromatic aberration leaves ~440nm around one dioptre defocused and S-cones are absent from the foveal centre. The ANSI spec mandates a blue slot, so it is shifted to hue 200–210 and held low in saturation. It remains the weakest colour optically.

Install

Each command has a comfy and a comfy-night file. Substitute as you prefer.

Warp

cp warp/comfy.yaml ~/.warp/themes/

Then Cmd/Ctrl+P → Open Theme Picker → comfy.

To set it in ~/.warp/settings.toml instead, a custom theme needs the inline-table form, with path relative to ~/.warp/themes/:

[appearance.themes]
theme = { custom = { name = "Comfy", path = "comfy.yaml" } }

The plain string form (theme = "comfy") will not work — that field only accepts Warp's bundled theme IDs, and a custom name there fails validation.

Ghostty

cp ghostty/comfy ~/.config/ghostty/themes/

Then in ~/.config/ghostty/config:

theme = comfy

iTerm2

Settings → Profiles → Colors → Color Presets → Import, then pick iterm2/comfy.itermcolors.

Alacritty

cp alacritty/comfy.toml ~/.config/alacritty/

Then in alacritty.toml:

general.import = ["~/.config/alacritty/comfy.toml"]

kitty

cp kitty/comfy.conf ~/.config/kitty/

Then in kitty.conf:

include comfy.conf

WezTerm

mkdir -p ~/.config/wezterm/colors
cp wezterm/comfy.toml ~/.config/wezterm/colors/

Then in wezterm.lua:

config.color_scheme = 'Comfy'

Windows Terminal

Paste the contents of windows-terminal/comfy.json into the schemes array in settings.json, then set "colorScheme": "Comfy" on a profile.

Palette

Slot	Comfy	Comfy Night
Background	#F3F1EC	#1B1D1C
Foreground	#2C2A26	#D8D4CA
Cursor, accent	#3F7A5E	#78B894
Red	#8A4B33	#D89F8C
Green	#55651F	#A1B76A
Yellow	#6F5A24	#C3AC84
Blue	#3D5F80	#8FB2C4
Magenta	#6A4A78	#BCA6CA
Cyan	#2F6560	#7CB8AE

Editing

Never edit the generated files. Change palette/comfy.json, then:

node scripts/build.mjs

That regenerates all fourteen files — seven formats × two variants — and fails if a chromatic slot drops below 4.5:1 or the band spreads past 1.5 points.

The same palette drives the VS Code theme. Keep the two copies in step when you change a colour.

Licence

MIT