Compline - A colorscheme for deep contemplation and work

I’ve built and released my first colorscheme: Compline, with its companion light theme Lauds.

Compline: from the Latin “completorium” - completion. The final prayer of the Catholic Liturgical Hours, a time for deep contemplation, to be at peace with the darkness.

Lauds: from the Latin “laudes” - to praise, to glorify. The dawn prayer of the Liturgical Hours, greeting the rising sun with thanksgiving, welcoming the light that scatters darkness.

These colorschemes embody this tradition in code. Monastic minimalism: colors as whispers of the same tone, suggestions rather than shouting at the user. Built for those who seek deep contemplation and focus in their computing environment. The colors fall into the background, accessible when you need them, but muted enough to ignore them.

The Motivation#

For years, Nord was the default across my system. Reliable, minimalst, clean; but the saturation irritated me.

Thus this is a homage to Nord, Everforest, and various monotone colorschemes - building from that which I believe those themes got right and reducing saturation and working from one tone, stripping everything away that is not essential.

Palette:#

Compline:#

Palette	Hex	RGB	HSL	Colors
bg	#1a1d21	26 29 33	214° 12% 12%
bg-alt	#22262b	34 38 43	213° 12% 15%
base0	#0f1114	15 17 20	216° 14% 7%
base1	#171a1e	23 26 30	214° 13% 10%
base2	#1f2228	31 34 40	220° 13% 14%
base3	#282c34	40 44 52	220° 13% 18%
base4	#3d424a	61 66 74	217° 10% 27%
base5	#515761	81 87 97	217° 9% 35%
base6	#676d77	103 109 119	217° 7% 44%
base7	#8b919a	139 145 154	216° 7% 58%
base8	#e0dcd4	224 220 212	40° 16% 85%
fg	#f0efeb	240 239 235	48° 14% 93%
fg-alt	#ccc4b4	204 196 180	40° 19% 75%
red	#cdacac	205 172 172	0° 25% 74%
orange	#ccc4b4	204 196 180	40° 19% 75%
green	#b8c4b8	184 196 184	120° 9% 75%
blue	#b4bcc4	180 188 196	210° 12% 74%
cyan	#b4c0c8	180 192 200	204° 15% 75%
yellow	#d4ccb4	212 204 180	45° 27% 77%
teal	#b4c4bc	180 196 188	150° 12% 74%
dark-cyan	#98a4ac	152 164 172	204° 11% 64%

Lauds:#

Palette	Hex	RGB	HSL	Colors
bg	#f0efeb	240 239 235	48° 14% 93%
bg-alt	#e0dcd4	224 220 212	40° 16% 85%
base0	#f5f4f2	245 244 242	40° 13% 95%
base1	#efeeed	239 238 237	30° 5% 93%
base2	#e5e3e0	229 227 224	36° 8% 89%
base3	#d8d6d3	216 214 211	36° 6% 84%
base4	#b8b5b0	184 181 176	37° 5% 71%
base5	#9a9791	154 151 145	40° 4% 59%
base6	#7d7a75	125 122 117	37° 3% 47%
base7	#5f5c58	95 92 88	34° 4% 36%
base8	#2d2a27	45 42 39	30° 7% 16%
fg	#1a1d21	26 29 33	214° 12% 12%
fg-alt	#4a4d51	74 77 81	214° 5% 30%
red	#8b6666	139 102 102	0° 15% 47%
orange	#7a6d5a	122 109 90	36° 15% 42%
green	#5a6b5a	90 107 90	120° 9% 39%
blue	#5a6b7a	90 107 122	208° 15% 42%
cyan	#64757d	100 117 125	199° 11% 44%
yellow	#8b7e52	139 126 82	46° 26% 43%
teal	#4d6b6b	77 107 107	180° 16% 36%
dark-cyan	#546470	84 100 112	206° 14% 38%

Finished Themes:#

• Alacritty
• Bat
• Btop
• Emacs
• Firefox
• GTK/QT
• Ghosttty
• Heliboard (Android)
• Hyprland/lock
• Kitty
• Lualine
• MPV
• Neovim
• NixOS (Stylix)
  • GTK/QT
  • Thunar
• SwayNC
• Thunar
• Thunderbird
• VSCode
• Waybar
• Zathura
• Zed

Roadmap to finish#

• Termux (nix-on-droid)

Special thanks#

• Matthew-K310 - for porting compline/lauds to nvim
• piero-vic - for alacritty port
• rivethorn - for ghostty and vscode ports
• camilo-zuluaga - for lualine port
• Moshyfawn - for zed port

Edit: there have been multiple pull requests already for additional ports of the colorscheme, I will merge them and add your name above at my earliest convenience, thank you all!

As always, God bless, and until next time.

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