shibui · palette study
A cool, dark ground with every accent at the edge of restraint.
shibui (渋い) names the Japanese aesthetic of subdued, unobtrusive beauty. It is the quality of something that deepens the longer you look without ever announcing itself. The ground is a cool blue-black, the six accents are desaturated and muted, and nothing in the palette claims priority over the text.
Ground
Swatches are rendered through the browser’s color management pipeline. On some displays the chips may appear as slightly different values than the hex codes shown — minor adjustment may be needed when applying these to terminals or other applications that bypass color management.
Accents
In place
~/scrolls # shibui
❯ cat shibui.theme
# palette
def accent(name: str) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
match name:
case "hero":
return (0x9e, 0xa7, 0xba)
case _:
raise ValueError("no such accent")
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