pal — Terminal Palette Switcher

Switch your terminal's color palette instantly. 420 themes compiled into a single static binary — no config, no runtime deps.

Go 1.21+

Palettes 420

Dependencies zero

License MIT

Binary size ~2.5 MB

⭐ GitHub 📖 Usage 🎨 Palettes

✨ Features

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420 Palettes

Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, Monokai, Solarized, Rose Pine, One Dark, and hundreds more — all compiled in.

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Instant Apply

Writes OSC escape sequences directly to stdout. Your terminal recolors in milliseconds.

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Zero Dependencies

All palette data embedded via //go:embed. One binary, nothing else needed.

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Cross-Terminal

Works in xterm, VTE, iTerm2, Kitty, Alacritty, WezTerm, and any terminal supporting OSC sequences.

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Random Mode

Discover new themes with pal random. Each invocation picks a different one from 420.

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Shell Export

Export a theme as a shell printf one-liner for .bashrc — no binary needed at startup.

🚀 Quick Start

# macOS — Homebrew
$ brew install binRick/tap/pal

# Linux — pre-built static binary
$ curl -fsSL https://github.com/binRick/pal/releases/latest/download/pal-linux-amd64 -o pal
$ chmod +x pal && sudo mv pal /usr/local/bin/

# apply a palette
$ pal dracula-dark
$ pal random
Applied: rose-pine-dark

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