andres-guzman/grayscale-graphite

Grayscale Graphite is a coordinated grayscale color theme for Arch Linux and similar Linux setups. Instead of styling each app one by one, it defines a single shared set of colors, fourteen shades of graphite plus a couple of error colors and utility swatches, and applies that same palette across many different desktop applications at once so everything looks consistent. Applications covered by the theme include GTK 3 and GTK 4 apps, KDE color settings, the Kitty terminal, the Kvantum theme engine, the Fish shell prompt tool Starship, the system monitor btop, the audio visualizer Cava, the Quickshell desktop shell, a music player called RMPC, and the VSCodium code editor, which gets two theme variants of its own. Applying the theme is done with a Python script that supports a dry run mode to preview changes first, then validates settings, makes timestamped backups, and records the applied palette state so changes can be tracked over time. The project's documentation includes a clear safety warning: some of the files it installs are complete application configuration files rather than small snippets, so they can overwrite unrelated personal settings if copied in without reviewing them first. A separate small script only changes VSCodium's comment styling to italic without touching its colors. The project also links to a separate collection of over eight hundred matching light gray wallpapers hosted on the Internet Archive, along with verification checksums. The repository is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.0, a copyleft license, with any third party or derived components listed separately in the project's notices file.