Lotus for lich

Pastel dark and light theme, ported from the Lotus Theme for JetBrains IDEs

Usage

1. Open lich → Settings → Appearance → Import.
2. Paste the repository URL: https://github.com/lichdotdev/lotus-lich
3. Click Install.
4. Pick a variant in the theme picker. The terminal picker defaults to Match app theme, so one pick dresses both — or choose a different variant there if you want the panes to differ.

To take a later release, hit Update on the theme's row.

Local install

An absolute path is an accepted remote, so a clone installs the same way:

git clone https://github.com/lichdotdev/lotus-lich.git

Then paste the absolute path of the clone into Settings → Appearance → Import.

Variants

Theme	id	scheme
Lotus Dark	lotus-dark	dark
Lotus Light	lotus-light	light

Port notes

Colors are read from the plugin's own source (blai30/Lotus-Theme): the *.theme.json UI palette and the colors/*.xml editor scheme, not guessed from screenshots. A few gaps are filled by nearest source value rather than invented:

• Both variants leave ANSI black undefined in the source scheme — the terminal black/brightBlack here fall back to the theme's own border/muted-text tokens.
• The source's ANSI blue slot (CONSOLE_BLUE_OUTPUT) is an orange-toned color in both Dark and Light, not blue — kept as-is for fidelity to the plugin rather than corrected.
• Light's console foreground/background are unset in the source (falls back to the editor default), resolved here to the theme's own background/foreground.

Status tones

tone-pass and tone-wait are what lich 0.53.0 reads for "passed" and "waiting on you". The status line sets them at 12px, where WCAG asks 4.5:1 with no large-text exemption, so where the palette value did not clear that against the card it sits on, its lightness was moved and its hue and saturation kept: the same move lich makes for its own two.

Variant	tone-pass	tone-wait
Lotus Dark	#a9dc76 (ANSI green)	#ffd866 (ANSI yellow)
Lotus Light	#526c38 (ANSI green, darkened)	#6f6517 (ANSI yellow, darkened)

Thanks to

• omartelo — port author
• blai30 — original Lotus Theme

Contributing

Each variant is one lich theme file — lotus-dark.json, lotus-light.json — beside the lich-theme.json manifest that carries the pack's version.

To propose a tweak:

1. Fork the repo.
2. Edit the relevant variant file.
3. Validate the whole directory — a repository installs all or nothing: node validate.mjs . (ships with the lich theme skill).
4. Bump version in lich-theme.json in the same commit. An unbumped version ships nothing: Update compares only that number.
5. Open a PR.

License

MIT