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Night Owl for iTerm2

A port of Sarah Drasner’s Night Owl VS Code theme for iTerm2.

iTerm night owl colours

Installation

  1. Download Night Owl for iTerm2.
  2. Install iTerm2.
  3. Launch iTerm2.
  4. Press <kbd>Cmd</kbd>+<kbd>,</kbd> to open preferences.
  5. Visit Profiles → [Your Profile Name] → Colors.
  6. Choose “Import…” from the “Color Presets” drop-down.
  7. Import the Night Owl.itermcolors file.
  8. Choose “Night Owl” from the Color Presets.
  9. Repeat step eight for each profile you’d like to use Night Owl for.

Updating

  1. Download Night Owl for iTerm2.
  2. Open iTerm2.
  3. Visit Profiles → [Your Profile] → Colors.
  4. Choose “Delete Preset…” from the “Color Presets” drop-down.
  5. Delete the Night Owl preset.
  6. Choose “Import…” from the “Color Presets” drop-down.
  7. Import the Night Owl.itermcolors file.
  8. Choose “Night Owl” from the Color Presets.

Tips

I recommend that you untick “smart box cursor color” to get a purple cursor color that more closely matches VS Code.

iTerm color settings showing smart box cursor color unticked