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title: Favourite Colour Palettes
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description: My favourite colour palettes ranked in descending order.
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tags:
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- themes
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- design
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Whether it's for UI design or theming, these colour palettes have played a great
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role in enhancing the eye-candy of my software projects. In fact, this very
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website uses one of the colour palettes on this list. I hope to share this list
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so that you may also find great use for these colour palettes in your own
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projects.
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## 4: Monokai
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A warm, yet dark, colour palette created by
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[Wimer Hazenberg](https://monokai.nl/). Monokai is available in many text
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editors, terminal emulators, and (Linux) desktop environments.
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There is also a variant called [Monokai Pro](https://monokai.pro/) by the same
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author. This new palette is a modern interpretation of the classic palette and
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aims to improve functionality and legibility; perfect for coding.
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## 3: Dracula
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[Dracula](https://draculatheme.com) is a dark colour palette created by
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[Zeno Rocha](https://zenorocha.com/) back in 2013. Since then, Dracula has grown
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to be one of the most popular colour palettes ever created and has been ported
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to many applications. There is no light variant available for this colour
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palette because Dracula is afraid of the light.
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Like Monokai, Dracula has a modern remake designed for terminal emulators and
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code editors called [Dracula Pro](https://draculatheme.com/pro).
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> Dracula Pro is a paid theme and its license must be purchased. {.info}
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## 2: Catppuccin
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[Catppuccin](https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin.git) is a pastel colour
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palette which skyrocketed in popularity since its inception in 2021. It consists
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of 4 colour variants: Latte, Frappe, Macchiato and Mocha (with Macchiato being
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the main variant). Catppuccin is very popular in the Linux theming community due
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to its eye-pleasing pastel colours which pair nicely with pastel wallpapers.
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## 1: Tokyo Night
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This is it... my favourite colour palette:
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[Tokyo Night](https://github.com/enkia/tokyo-night-vscode-theme.git). A colour
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palette made to celebrate the lights of downtown Tokyo at night. Unlike many of
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the other colour palettes on this list, Tokyo Night has a light theme among its
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three variants:
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- **Night** - The main, dark variant.
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- **Storm** - The same palette as Night except for a lighter background colour.
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- **Light** - A light variant for those who prefer a light theme.
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Remember I mentioned that this website uses one of the colour palettes on this
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list? Well, Tokyo Night is that colour palette. This website uses the Night
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variant for its dark theme and the Light variant for its light theme.
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I also created an **unofficial**
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[Tokyo Night organization](https://code.fosterhangdaan.com/tokyo-night) to serve
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as a hub where one can find the ports made by others as well as ports made by
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myself. You can find a good amount of resources in that organization if you plan
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on using Tokyo Night in a project.
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