pywal VS base16-vim

pywal is used to get the colorscheme from my wallpaper for my browser and terminal. left: neovim, top right: qutebrowser, bottom right: cava

I am on Arch Linux and I am using pywal to generate a colour palette from my wallpaper, which I then use throughout my system. In particular, i have a bash script which grabs these colours and uses them for polybar. The problem is that sometimes these colours do not have enough contrast, and the bar is hard to read. Is there any tool that would allow me to check the readability of my colours, and modify them accordingly, directly from my script? If not, how should I be approaching this issue?

Have you tested https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal on its own?

I'd definitely look into pywal for that, it's like a colorscheme manager that fills in templates (some already implemented but it also supports user templates) from either a color scheme you define or by color picking an image

pywal and wpgtk would be nice for desktop theming!

You could use a utility like pywal to help with this.

However, I also feel that it is important to state that the .Xresources file located in your home directory isn't the only way to add a value to the xrdb (Xresources database). Plenty of other applications such as pywal can be used to contribute to xrdb. I use pywal as a way of choosing my color scheme from a big library of different themes, which makes it easy to change my systems color scheme.

Pywal probably is

You can also use pywal which generates a colorscheme based on an image.

I use base16 to synchronize theming between my shell and nvim. I'm currently switching between base16-gruvbox-dark-hard and base16-dracula (gallery).

I prefer to use base16-shell to set my terminal colors and then https://github.com/base16-project/base16-vim to automatically apply that colorscheme to vim, keeping them in sync. Solarized is one of the available themes withing base16.

" NEOVIDE CONFIG let g:neovide_refresh_rate=60 let g:neovide_transparency=0.9 let g:neovide_remember_window_size=v:true let g:neovide_cursor_trail_length=1 let g:neovide_cursor_animation_length=0.05 " PLUGIN call plug#begin('~/.local/share/nvim/plugged') Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline' Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes' Plug 'https://github.com/base16-project/base16-vim' Plug 'https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8' Plug 'https://github.com/iCyMind/NeoSolarized' Plug 'https://github.com/flrnprz/plastic.vim' Plug 'https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox' call plug#end() " GENERAL? cd $HOME/Documents set clipboard+=unnamed,unnamedplus set mouse=a set relativenumber filetype on filetype plugin on filetype indent on " GUI NATIVE colorscheme base16-atelier-seaside set background=dark set noshowmode set guifont=Cascadia\ Mono:h10 " AIRLINE "AirlineTheme base16_atelier_seaside let g:airline_theme='base16_atelier_seaside' let g:airline_solarized_bg='dark'