Color themes

CutBox has several color themes to choose from, use Cmd + t to cycle through them or pick one in preferences.

Built in color themes

Standard (Default)

Standard replaces the old Darkness theme (Darkness can added to ~/.config/cutbox/ see below)

Skylight

Sandy Beach

Darktooth

Creamsody

Purple Haze

Verdant

Amber Cathode

macOS

macOS Graphite

StandardDark

User created themes.

From CutBox v 1.4.18 you can use custom themes.

Themes are in a JSON format and stored in ~/.config/cutbox/ as files with the extension .cutboxTheme.

You can access the built in themes at https://github.com/cutbox/CutBox/tree/master/CutBox/CutBox/themes

The JSON format is as follows.

{
    "name": "Darkness",
    "popupBackgroundColor": "#163242AA",
    "searchText": {
        "cursorColor": "#0E1C20",
        "textColor": "#0E1B21",
        "backgroundColor": "#ECF3F6",
        "placeholderTextColor": "#ADC3CC"
    },
    "clip": {
        "backgroundColor": "#0E1B21",
        "textColor": "#ACC0CA",
        "highlightColor": "#033E60",
        "highlightTextColor": "#ACC0CA"
    },
    "preview": {
        "textColor": "#ADC2CC",
        "backgroundColor": "#060707",
        "selectedTextBackgroundColor": "#163242",
        "selectedTextColor": "#000000"
    },
    "spacing": 1
}

Color values are hex RGB style, hex RGBA is also usable... e.g.

# rrggbbaa
"#163242AA"

As with the color channels RGB, the A (alpha) channel is set with values from 00-FF. (00 transparent, FF solid.)

If there are errors in your theme, CutBox will not start up. To debug your theme, start CutBox from the terminal. Pay close attention to JSON formatting (validate with https://jsonlint.com/) and property names.

Spacing values can be floating point or integer, setting them too large will look very bad. Between 0 and 4 is ok by me.

# open a terminal window...
/Applications/CutBox/Contents/MacOS/CutBox

CutBox will show error messages here.

User Customized Themes

Olivetti-lettera

{
    "name": "Olivetti Lettera",
    "popupBackgroundColor":            "#658487",
    "searchText": {
        "cursorColor":                 "#77777777",
        "textColor":                   "#000000DD",
        "backgroundColor":             "#00000011",
        "placeholderTextColor":        "#465C60"
    },
    "clip": {
        "backgroundColor":    "#FFECE3",
        "textColor":          "#2E3337",
        "highlightColor":     "#658487EE",
        "highlightTextColor": "#FFFFFFAA"
    },
    "preview": {
        "textColor":                   "#FFFFFFCC",
        "backgroundColor":             "#00000077",
        "selectedTextBackgroundColor": "#658487EE",
        "selectedTextColor":           "#20252980"
    },
    "spacing": 0
}

Aquaman

{
    "name": "Aquaman",
    "popupBackgroundColor":            "#332F2EEE",
    "searchText": {
        "cursorColor":                 "#31EFE277",
        "textColor":                   "#F9E6DDDD",
        "backgroundColor":             "#332A26",
        "placeholderTextColor":        "#70635E88"
    },
    "clip": {
        "backgroundColor":    "#23211F",
        "textColor":          "#F9E7DE",
        "highlightColor":     "#0B6F7599",
        "highlightTextColor": "#F9E7DE"
    },
    "preview": {
        "textColor":                   "#31EFE299",
        "backgroundColor":             "#001A18",
        "selectedTextBackgroundColor": "#009C9555",
        "selectedTextColor":           "#000000"
    },
    "spacing": 0
}

Standard

Now the default theme for CutBox

{
    "name": "Standard",
    "popupBackgroundColor":            "#282C32",
    "searchText": {
        "cursorColor":                 "#F0FFFC77",
        "textColor":                   "#FFFFFFDD",
        "backgroundColor":             "#282C32",
        "placeholderTextColor":        "#7C7C7C88"
    },
    "clip": {
        "backgroundColor":    "#24292D",
        "textColor":          "#FFECE3",
        "highlightColor":     "#667578A9",
        "highlightTextColor": "#FFECE3"
    },
    "preview": {
        "textColor":                   "#FFECE3",
        "backgroundColor":             "#202529",
        "selectedTextBackgroundColor": "#66757830",
        "selectedTextColor":           "#EBF7FF80"
    },
    "spacing": 0
}

Broken

{
    "name": "Broken",
    "popupBackgroundColor": "#00000055",
    "searchText": {
        "cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
        "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
        "backgroundColor": "#000000",
        "placeholderTextColor": "#333333"
    },
    "clip": {
        "backgroundColor": "#111111",
        "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
        "highlightColor": "#4175A7AA",
        "highlightTextColor": "#FFFFFF"
    },
    "preview": {
        "textColor": "#FFFFFF",
        "backgroundColor": "#000000DD",
        "selectedTextBackgroundColor": "#4175A7AA",
        "selectedTextColor":           "#000000"
    },
    "spacing": 0
}