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ovah

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Nov 23, 2025, 10:29:03 PMNov 23
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Hello,

I have been searching for the colorscheme used in a screenshot found on the homepage of dwm for several months now to no avail and as a last resort I am attempting to reach out to you directly. A link to where the screenshot can be found is attached to this email as well as my copy. After some research I thought it may be the base16 tomorrow night theme, or maybe the hybrid vim theme but variable names and strings throughout the screenshot dont match either of those themes, unfortunately due to what I believe to be compression, extracting colors from the text doesnt give me very accurate results and I havent been able to search using the exact hex codes. I hope this email doesnt waste anyones time but if anyone reading this does know the color scheme that was used or can assist me in finding it I would be extremely grateful. I originally found the image at https://dwm.suckless.org/screenshots/dwm-20120806.png and my copy has been uploaded as an attachment

Thank you,
ovah
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Listeria monocytogenes

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Nov 26, 2025, 2:59:28 PMNov 26
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PNG is lossless, so compression can't affect the quality.
I looked up the colors by hex code and found this:

https://gist.github.com/w0ng/16e33902508b4a0350ae

The GitHub username matches the one in the screenshot.

ovah

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Nov 26, 2025, 3:50:21 PMNov 26
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Hi Listeria

Thank you for reaching out! Several other people have reached out
already and I actually did find this repo. The color mismatch was due to
a mismatch of editors (vim vs. emacs) so highlighting colors where
swapped. The theme in question is base16 tomorrow night. I'm opting to
just write my own theme for emacs so that it matches the colors that vim
chooses to use for highlighting. I appreciate the help.

I also wanted to add that for some reason my browser was reading the
image as JPEG and compressing it further to a 720p image. Switching
browsers gives me the lossless 1080p png which is how I also found
accurate hex codes. Again thank you for the help!

Thank you,
ovah

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