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tint

Every project split gets its own brand color in the terminal.

Year: 2026
Made for: Ghostty, zsh
State: shipped

Six terminal splits look identical, and I kept typing in the wrong one. tint gives each project its own palette, derived from that project’s actual brand colors, applied through escape codes when you cd into it.

No config file to maintain. Claude reads the repo, finds the colors the project already uses, and writes the theme. After that the split you are looking at tells you which codebase you are in before you have read a single word.

Small idea, and I stopped losing my place.

How to use it

Clone it, run the installer, then tint the split you are looking at.

Terminal

git clone https://github.com/JaimeOrtegaxyz/tint \
  ~/Documents/GitHub/tint
cd ~/Documents/GitHub/tint && ./install.sh

Apply a theme, list them, or drop back to your default.
Terminal
```
tint kiwi
tint ls
tint reset
```
To make a theme for a project, cd into it and let Claude read its brand colours.
Ask your assistant
```
/tint-create
```

Built for Ghostty, probably fine in Kitty. Colours go through escape codes scoped to the current surface, so other splits are untouched and your config is never edited. Close the tab and it is gone.

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