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Tomorrow Night is a clean, minimalist color scheme family created by Chris Kempson. It features carefully selected colors that provide excellent readability and comes in multiple variants.

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Quick setup

For a quick setup with Tomorrow Night colors, add the following to your tmux configuration: 
set -g @dracula-colors "
# simple tomorrow night color palette
pink='#cc6666'
orange='#de935f'
yellow='#f0c574'
green='#b5bd68'
cyan='#8abdb6'
blue='#81a2be'
light_purple='#b294ba'
white='#c4c8c5'
dark_gray='#363a41'
red='#cc6666'
gray='#1d1f21'
dark_purple='#373b41'
"
This configuration uses the Tomorrow Night color scheme, which works well in dark terminal environments.

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Full Tomorrow palette

The Tomorrow theme family includes multiple variants for different preferences and lighting conditions.

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Tomorrow Night (dark)

foreground='#c5c8c6'
background='#1d1f21'
highlight='#373b41'
status_line='#282a2e'
comment='#969896'
red='#cc6666'
orange='#de935f'
yellow='#f0c674'
green='#b5bd68'
aqua='#8abeb7'
blue='#81a2be'
purple='#b294bb'
pane='#4d5057'

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Tomorrow (light)

foreground='#4d4d4c'
background='#ffffff'
highlight='#d6d6d6'
status_line='#efefef'
comment='#8e908c'
red='#c82829'
orange='#f5871f'
yellow='#eab700'
green='#718c00'
aqua='#3e999f'
blue='#4271ae'
purple='#8959a8'
pane='#efefef'

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Tomorrow Night Eighties (dark)

foreground='#4d4d4c'
background='#ffffff'
highlight='#d6d6d6'
status_line='#efefef'
comment='#8e908c'
red='#c82829'
orange='#f5871f'
yellow='#eab700'
green='#718c00'
aqua='#3e999f'
blue='#4271ae'
purple='#8959a8'
pane='#efefef'

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Tomorrow Night Bright (dark)

foreground='#eaeaea'
background='#000000'
highlight='#424242'
status_line='#2a2a2a'
comment='#969896'
red='#d54e53'
orange='#e78c45'
yellow='#e7c547'
green='#b9ca4a'
aqua='#70c0b1'
blue='#7aa6da'
purple='#c397d8'
pane='#4d5057'

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Tomorrow Night Blue (dark)

foreground='#ffffff'
background='#002451'
highlight='#003f8e'
status_line='#00346e'
comment='#7285b7'
red='#ff9da4'
orange='#ffc58f'
yellow='#ffeead'
green='#d1f1a9'
aqua='#99ffff'
blue='#bbdaff'
purple='#ebbbff'
pane='#4d5057'

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Applying the theme

To apply the Tomorrow Night theme:
  1. Choose your preferred variant (Night, Light, Eighties, Bright, or Blue)
  2. Add the color palette to your ~/.tmux.conf:
set -g @dracula-colors "
pink='#cc6666'
orange='#de935f'
yellow='#f0c574'
green='#b5bd68'
cyan='#8abdb6'
blue='#81a2be'
light_purple='#b294ba'
white='#c4c8c5'
dark_gray='#363a41'
red='#cc6666'
gray='#1d1f21'
dark_purple='#373b41'
"
  1. Reload your tmux configuration:
tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
Tomorrow Night is the most popular variant and works well in most dark terminal setups. Tomorrow Night Blue provides a unique blue-tinted background for those who prefer cooler tones.

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Customizing widgets

If you use the full palette, you can customize individual widgets with Tomorrow color names: 
# Version control widgets
set -g @dracula-git-colors "green background"
set -g @dracula-fossil-colors "green background"

# System monitoring
set -g @dracula-cpu-usage-colors "orange background"
set -g @dracula-ram-usage-colors "aqua background"

# Time display
set -g @dracula-time-colors "purple background"

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Learn more

For more information about the Tomorrow theme family, visit the original repository by Chris Kempson.

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