Heritage Themes for Thonny
Colour themes drawn from the colour traditions of different cultures. 65 dark and light themes in 32 families, in one plugin; each family maps the named colours of one tradition to syntax roles. Each theme is a UI theme and a syntax theme of the same name.
Install
The plugin needs Thonny 4.0 or later.
- Choose Tools | Manage plug-ins, search for
thonny-heritage-themesand install it. To install a particular build instead, downloadheritage-themes-thonny-<version>.zipfrom the GitHub releases and choose Install from local file for the wheel in it,thonny_heritage_themes-1.10.0-py3-none-any.whl. In an environment where Thonny comes from pip,pip install thonny-heritage-themesdoes the same. - Restart Thonny.
- Choose Tools | Options | Theme & Font, then the same theme as UI theme and as Syntax theme, such as
Heritage Holi Night, and restart Thonny again for the whole window to change.
To remove the plugin, choose it under Tools | Manage plug-ins and uninstall it.
What is coloured
The UI theme colours the window: menus, tabs, toolbars, buttons, scrollbars, entries and lists. The syntax theme colours the editor and the shell: code, the line numbers, the current line, the selection, the other occurrences of the name under the caret, found text, bracket matches, a string that is not closed, the shell's prompt, input, output, errors and values, the colours of ANSI escape codes, and the debugger's boxes around the current statement.
Thonny gives each kind of token one colour: keywords, builtins, numbers, comments, strings, the name after def and class, and function and method calls. Every other name has the text colour. Thonny draws its toolbar icons and the pages of its assistant itself.
Themes
| Family | Themes | Tradition |
|---|---|---|
| Ainu | Heritage Ainu Kaparamip (Dark), Heritage Ainu Attus (Light) |
The appliqué robes of the Ainu of Hokkaido: bold appliqué keywords, red method declarations at the openings, green thread strings, yellow fields and blue-violet numbers, on indigo cotton or elm-bark cloth. |
| Aizome | Heritage Aizome Kachi (Dark), Heritage Aizome Kamenozoki (Light) |
Japanese indigo dyeing in a single hue: hierarchy by depth of dye, with sashiko-white declarations, green-leaning asagi strings and violet-leaning kon numbers. |
| Bengal | Heritage Bengal Baluchari (Dark), Heritage Bengal Laal Paar (Light) |
Bengal's looms and Durga Puja: aparajita keywords, Baluchari-magenta strings, paddy-green methods and terracotta types, on wine-dark Baluchari silk or a white laal paar sari with a red border. |
| Danqing | Heritage Danqing Ink (Dark), Heritage Danqing Paper (Light) |
Chinese painting pigments, led by the blue-green landscape: azurite keywords, malachite strings, cinnabar methods and gamboge types on inkstone or aged xuan paper, with Spock blocks marked like red seal stamps. |
| Edo | Heritage Edo Cha (Dark), Heritage Edo Nezumi (Light) |
The forty-eight browns and hundred greys of Edo-period dress: muted indigo keywords, brown literals, tinted-grey names, and a hidden red lining for the caret and labels. |
| Gujarat | Heritage Gujarat Navratri (Dark), Heritage Gujarat Rann (Light) |
Gujarat's Navratri, Rann of Kutch and patola silk: parrot-green keywords, patola-red types, turmeric methods and garba-pink strings, on a mirror-worked night or the white salt desert. |
| Hmong | Heritage Hmong Batik (Dark), Heritage Hmong Hemp (Light) |
The batik and cross-stitch of the Hmong pleated skirt: names in the tones of indigo batik, with pink keywords, lime strings and orange numbers from the cross-stitch, on indigo or undyed hemp. |
| Holi | Heritage Holi Night, Heritage Holi Day |
The Indian festival of colours at full strength: gulabi-pink keywords, saffron strings, green types and blue methods, thrown like gulal over the ash of the Holika bonfire or over white cotton. |
| Kalaallisuut | Heritage Kalaallisuut Qernertoq (Dark), Heritage Kalaallisuut Qaqortoq (Light) |
The West Greenlandic national dress and its colours for age and marital status: red keywords, confirmation pink strings, yellow kamik numbers, blue anorak types, green bead methods and black-and-white fields. |
| Kalamkari | Heritage Kalamkari Indigo (Dark), Heritage Kalamkari Cotton (Light) |
Indian hand-painted textiles and their natural dyes, kept muted: aubergine keywords, indigo types, madder methods and myrobalan strings on a vat of indigo or unbleached cotton, outlined in iron-black ink. |
| Kashubia | Heritage Kashubia Zemia (Dark), Heritage Kashubia Niebò (Light) |
The seven colours of Kashubian embroidery: cornflower keywords, navy types and light-blue methods under yellow strings, green fields and red numbers, on black earth or white linen. |
| Kerala | Heritage Kerala Backwaters (Dark), Heritage Kerala Kasavu (Light) |
Kerala's backwaters, Kathakali stage and kasavu loom: kathi-red keywords, zari-gold strings, pacha-green methods and backwater-teal types, on palm-dark water at night or off-white handloom with a gold border. |
| Łowicz | Heritage Łowicz Wycinanka (Dark), Heritage Łowicz Kodra (Light) |
The striped wool and layered paper cut-outs of Łowicz: orange keywords, green strings, emerald types and violet methods with yellow fields and cinnabar numbers, on a black template or a white paper strip. |
| Maramureș | Heritage Maramureș Zadie (Dark), Heritage Maramureș Cânepă (Light) |
The striped aprons and flowered skirts of Maramureș, coloured by age: married red keywords, pumpkin-flower strings, blue numbers, dark green types, rose methods and leather-brown fields. |
| Maya | Heritage Maya Corte (Dark), Heritage Maya Huipil (Light) |
The town dress of the Guatemalan Maya read through the K'iche' colour roads: green keywords, red strings, yellow types, purple methods and indigo fields, on the jaspe corte or the white huipil. |
| Morocco | Heritage Morocco Majorelle (Dark), Heritage Morocco Marrakech (Dark), Heritage Morocco Zellige (Dark) |
Three Moroccan walls on saturated backgrounds: Majorelle ultramarine with yellow pots, Marrakech red clay with turquoise doors, and zellige jade with saffron and cobalt tile. |
| Mudhif | Heritage Mudhif Qir (Dark), Heritage Mudhif Qasab (Light) |
The reed guest house of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq: hierarchy from the tone and weight of reed gold, with green reed shoots for strings and the willow fire for numbers. |
| Mughal | Heritage Mughal Night, Heritage Mughal Wasli (Light) |
Mughal miniature painting: lapis-lazuli keywords, vermilion types, gold-leaf methods and verdigris strings on a lamp-lit night or burnished wasli paper, with Spock labels lettered in gold. |
| Ndebele | Heritage Ndebele Nzima (Dark), Heritage Ndebele Mhlophe (Light) |
The painted walls of the Ndebele homestead: keywords drawn as the black outline, with sky-blue types, green methods, yellow strings and pink fields as the flat fills, on black paint or white lime-wash. |
| Peru | Heritage Peru Kulli (Dark), Heritage Peru Puka (Dark) |
Andean natural dyes on two dyed-through grounds: q'olle-yellow keywords, ch'illka-green strings and anqas-blue types on purple corn, and ch'illka-green keywords with turquoise methods on cochineal crimson. |
| Podhale | Heritage Podhale Kłobuk (Dark), Heritage Podhale Sukno (Light) |
The Highlander costume of Podhale: crimson keywords and navy strings from the cords of the parzenica, brass methods, green fields, blue types and coral numbers, on a black felt hat or white broadcloth. |
| Punjab | Heritage Punjab Phulkari (Dark), Heritage Punjab Basant (Light) |
Punjab's phulkari embroidery and Basant mustard fields: golden-silk keywords, orange-silk methods, turquoise strings and saag-green types, on madder-rust khaddar or a field of flowering mustard. |
| Rajasthan | Heritage Rajasthan Blue City (Dark), Heritage Rajasthan Pink City (Light) |
The colours of Rajasthan's cities and cloth: kesariya-saffron keywords, rani-pink strings, golden-sandstone types and blue-pottery methods, on the blue houses of Jodhpur by night or the pink sandstone of Jaipur by day. |
| Sardinia | Heritage Sardinia Orbace (Dark), Heritage Sardinia Camisa (Light) |
The traditional dress of Sardinia: saffron keywords and scarlet strings from the dyed silk and wool, indigo methods, walnut-brown fields and coral numbers, on black orbace or white linen. |
| Shaker | Heritage Shaker Prussian (Dark), Heritage Shaker Plaster (Light) |
The paint of the Shaker villages: bold meetinghouse keywords in plaster white or Prussian blue, Shaker red strings, pumpkin methods, yellow ochre fields, chrome green types and verdigris numbers. |
| Shuimo | Heritage Shuimo Night, Heritage Shuimo Day |
Chinese ink-wash painting: hierarchy by ink tone and weight rather than hue, with indigo and ochre washes and a red seal as the only accents. |
| Tamil | Heritage Tamil Kolam (Dark), Heritage Tamil Olai (Light) |
Tamil Nadu's kolam, palm-leaf manuscripts and Kanchipuram silk: peacock-neck keywords, mango strings, lac-red types and sapphire methods, on a dark granite threshold or a palm leaf. |
| Wixárika | Heritage Wixárika Haramara (Dark), Heritage Wixárika Wirikuta (Light) |
The yarn paintings and beadwork of the Wixárika (Huichol): the five colours of maize, with yellow keywords, blue strings, purple fields, red types and peyote-green methods, on the black of the western sea or the light of the eastern desert. |
| Wuxing | Heritage Wuxing Night, Heritage Wuxing Day |
Chinese colour symbolism and the Five Elements: vermilion keywords (Fire), jade strings (Wood), imperial-yellow types (Earth), and a rice-paper or indigo-ink canvas in place of stark white and black (Metal and Water). |
| Yolŋu | Heritage Yolŋu Galawu (Dark), Heritage Yolŋu Gapaṉ (Light) |
The ochres of Yolŋu bark painting from north-east Arnhem Land: red keywords, yellow strings, orange types, haematite fields and pink numbers, with white or charcoal methods, on stringybark or white clay. |
| Zalipie | Heritage Zalipie Sadza (Dark), Heritage Zalipie Wapno (Light) |
The painted cottages of Zalipie: lime, soot and clay for text, keywords and comments, and the flowers for names, with rose methods, leaf-green strings and violet types, on a soot plinth or a lime-washed wall. |
| Złotnica | Heritage Złotnica Aksamit (Dark), Heritage Złotnica Płótno (Light) |
The gold-and-silver embroidered bonnets of Kashubia: hierarchy by metal, tone and weight, with sapphire, burgundy and emerald velvet as the only colours, on green velvet or white linen. |
Each family's page describes its colour tradition. The same themes are available for JetBrains IDEs, VS Code, Visual Studio, Sublime Text, Zed, Neovim, Notepad++, Xcode, Helix, Kakoune, Micro, Vim, Emacs, Nano, Textadept, Lapce, Qt Creator, Amp, Eclipse, Nova, JupyterLab, Pygments, Spyder and terminals: see Heritage Themes on GitHub.
Report a problem or suggest a tradition on the issue tracker. Include the theme, Thonny version, how you installed Thonny and a screenshot.
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