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The Dracula tmux theme allows you to customize colors for individual widgets or apply complete color themes to match your preferred aesthetic.

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Color customization

You can customize colors in two ways:
  1. Override color variables - Change the default Dracula color palette
  2. Per-widget colors - Set specific colors for individual widgets

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Default Dracula colors

The Dracula theme uses the following color palette by default: 
set -g @dracula-colors "
# Dracula Color Pallette
white='#f8f8f2'
gray='#44475a'
dark_gray='#282a36'
light_purple='#bd93f9'
dark_purple='#6272a4'
cyan='#8be9fd'
green='#50fa7b'
orange='#ffb86c'
red='#ff5555'
pink='#ff79c6'
yellow='#f1fa8c'
"
You can override these default colors by setting the @dracula-colors option in your tmux configuration.

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Available themes

The following pre-configured themes are available:
  • Catppuccin - Soothing pastel theme with multiple variants
  • Gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme with warm tones
  • Tomorrow Night - Clean, minimalist theme family

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Using the @dracula-colors option

The @dracula-colors option accepts color variable definitions. You can:
  • Override existing Dracula colors
  • Add new color variables
  • Format as multiline for readability or single-line to save space
Put each variable on a new line for better readability, or use a single line to save space in your configuration file.

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Next steps

Custom colors

Learn how to override colors and customize individual widgets

Apply a theme

Browse pre-configured color themes

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