# dylanaraps/pywal

🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.

Repository: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pywal
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: wal, colorscheme, terminal-emulators, changing-colorschemes
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-01-27T15:51:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3365, "days_push": 949, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9076, forks 355 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:28.254745+00:00)

## What it is
Pywal is a Python CLI tool that generates color palettes from the dominant colors in an image and applies them system-wide in real time. It includes 250+ built-in themes and updates terminal emulators and TTYs on the fly without modifying existing config files.

## Use cases
- generate a color scheme from a wallpaper image
- change terminal colors on the fly
- apply a consistent color palette system-wide
- use predefined terminal color themes
- create custom color scheme themes to share
- theme my linux ricing setup

## When to choose
- you want your terminal and apps to match your wallpaper automatically
- you want a lightweight CLI theming tool that doesn't rewrite your configs
- you want instant color scheme switching across terminal emulators and TTYs

## When to avoid
- you need GUI application theming beyond terminal colors
- you want a maintained project with active development
- you need Windows support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, theme
- domain: developer-tools, desktop-applications
- platform: cli, python
- tags: colorscheme, color-palette, terminal-theming, unixporn, theming, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- dylanaraps/pywal (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:28.254745+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:24:01.070029+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:28.254745+00:00, sha 6efc159573e8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.