one palette · 14 ports · since 2018

Bigface

One dark palette, ported to 14 tools. No per-tool tweaking, no variants, no second-guessing.

Born in 2018 as a JetBrains scheme, now generated for your terminal, editors, shell and notes from a single palette file. Every colour that came from the original scheme is checked against it by a test.

Install in one line See the palette GitHub

❯curl -fsSL https://bigface.qqntt.com/install.sh | sh

main.ts

// main.ts — colours, not a screenshot.import { greet } from "./hello"; type User = { id: number; name: string }; const ENDPOINT = "https://api.example.com/users"; export async function main(ids: number[]): Promise<void> {  const res = await fetch(ENDPOINT);  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`users: ${res.status}`);  const all: User[] = await res.json();  const picked = all.filter((u) => ids.includes(u.id));  picked.forEach((u) => greet(u.name));}

jun ~/code ❯ git status

On branch main

33 colours in the palette. This page runs on the theme's own background#252925 — every colour here comes frompalette/bigface.json. Click a swatch to copy its hex.

14ports, one source

33colours, no variants

0per-tool adjustments

2018first JetBrains release

01 — install

One command, then it asks.

The installer shows every app marked installed or detected and lets you pick. It writes Bigface's own files only, never edits your config, and prints the one line you still need to add.

sh — install

curl -fsSL https://bigface.qqntt.com/install.sh | sh

Asks install or uninstall, then which apps. Enter picks every detected app.

sh — install ghostty tmux zed

curl -fsSL https://bigface.qqntt.com/install.sh | sh -s -- ghostty tmux zed

Pass any app ids; unknown ones are reported and skipped.

sh — install all

curl -fsSL https://bigface.qqntt.com/install.sh | sh -s -- all

Every supported app it finds on this machine.

sh — uninstall all

curl -fsSL https://bigface.qqntt.com/install.sh | sh -s -- --uninstall all

Removes Bigface's files and prints the lines to drop from your config.

Add --dry-run to see what it would do, or read the script first — it is generated fromsrc/installer.ts.

02 — apps

14 ports, one source of truth.

Each page says exactly how far its theme was checked — loaded by the tool, validated against its schema, or format-checked only. Nothing is claimed stronger than the proof.

01piTheme for the pi coding agent TUI.Agent 02GhosttyBackground, foreground, selection, cursor and the 16-colour palette.Terminal 03herdrA [theme.custom] block layered on a base theme.Terminal 04VS Code / CursorA colour-theme extension. The same file works in VS Code and Cursor.Editor 05ZedA Zed theme family (schema v0.2.0).Editor 06JetBrains IDEsThe original 2018 scheme: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, Android Studio, DataGrip.IDE 07zellijA theme block for the zellij terminal workspace.Terminal 08starshipA starship palette that recolours the standard colour names.Shell 09tmuxStatus line, pane borders, messages and copy-mode colours.Shell 10Vim / NeovimA single colors/bigface.vim file, with terminal ANSI colours.Editor 11XcodeA source-editor and console theme.IDE 12microA colour scheme for the micro terminal editor.Editor 13ObsidianA dark theme overriding Obsidian's colour variables.Notes 14SlackA sidebar colour string (the legacy 8-colour format).Chat