Blade Runner

An Omarchy 4 (Quattro) theme for the 1982 film.

Los Angeles, November 2019. Sodium light through acid rain: a smog-blue night, warm light that always comes through something (haze, blinds, rain, glass), and one cold neon. The accent is sodium amber (#E08A3A); cyan is kept for the things that should read cold.

Live Omarchy 4 desktop, captured at 3840×2160 and 150% display scaling. Dusk, the default wallpaper, fills the megastructure's top floor; Neovim, fastfetch, and btop take their colours from the theme.

Install

Omarchy 4:

omarchy theme install https://github.com/BVisagie/omarchy-blade-runner-theme

Or Install > Style > Theme in the Omarchy menu (Super + Space) and paste that URL.

Backgrounds cycle with Super + Ctrl + Space. The theme opens on Dusk.

The base theme contains colors, shell styling, and static backgrounds. The optional Esper terminal is launched separately.

Compatibility: targets Omarchy 4 / Quickshell, checked against the installed Omarchy 4.0.4 package, including its polkit prompt and image picker. Omarchy 3's Waybar/Mako setup is not covered by these overrides.

Palette

Keywords stay in-world: the magenta slot carries title-card brick (#C8745C), so editors paint keywords brick, never pink. Blue is a steel blue (#7093C8), kept apart from both the cyan neon and muted comments, and green (#8DAF7E) rounds out the syntax colours, each pulled toward the haze. Neon through smoke, not a synthwave nightclub: no purple grids, no pink sunsets.

Every text colour, muted text and errors included, exceeds 4.5:1 contrast against both the main background and the lifted panel background (#151C24). Selection is the blinds' blue at two depths. Editors and terminals use #243C4A, lifted so a visual-line selection is easy to find (cream text 9.31:1). Menus, the launcher and btop fill the current row with a deeper #213946 so sodium text on it holds 4.52:1. colors.toml notes these floors next to the keys they constrain.

Esper terminal

From this repository, or after cd ~/.config/omarchy/themes/blade-runner for an installed copy:

./scripts/blade-runner-terminal
./scripts/blade-runner-terminal --terminal foot
./scripts/blade-runner-terminal --font-size 12
./scripts/blade-runner-terminal --haze

Requires Python 3.11+, Ghostty or Foot, and JetBrainsMono Nerd Font. The default is Ghostty. The launcher reads colors.toml directly, so it can preview the palette before the desktop theme is applied. It keeps your normal terminal configuration and overrides appearance for this session: 11pt type, additional padding, an opaque background, and a steady block cursor. Ghostty also gets a little extra line spacing and runs in a separate instance.

The companion Starship prompt shows directory, Git state, slow command duration, and failed exit codes. SSH hosts appear as off-world:host, and root sessions stay identifiable. Omarchy's usual shell startup initializes Starship; custom shells need their own Starship initialization. STARSHIP_CONFIG is scoped to the launched process and its children. No shell startup files, default terminal, or keybindings are edited.

--haze enables a small static halation in Ghostty: bright glyphs bleed a little amber-tinted light, like highlights through smoke. The halo radius follows the display (about 6 px at 1440p, 7 px at 2160p), so it reads as haze, not as sharpening. It adds no animation loop, flicker, warping, or cursor trails, and the glow stays faint enough that text and error colours read true. Foot uses the clean profile. Close the preview window and open your normal terminal to return to your existing setup.

Run a specific command with arguments after --, or request the greeting by hand:

./scripts/blade-runner-terminal -- btop
./scripts/blade-runner-greeting

Alacritty and Kitty still receive the base palette through Omarchy. The optional launcher supports Ghostty and Foot.

The launcher uses the documented Ghostty configuration options and Starship prompt configuration.

Shell

The shell.*.toml files style the bar, controls, launcher, menus, notifications, popups, tooltips, lock input, polkit prompt, and image picker. Sodium is kept for focus and the current item, not for every card edge. Menus and the launcher sit on the lifted panel with a muted edge, like tooltips; the selected row gets the blinds-blue fill with sodium text. Keyboard focus gets a distinct 2px sodium border. User font scaling remains inherited, and the bar keeps Omarchy's stock size. Omarchy shares the bar's red active token among recording, updates, and other attention states.

The active window border runs from sodium amber to a faint cyan: warm light meeting cold. Notifications and popups carry the same gradient.

Omarchy replaces entire sections when applying these files, so overridden sections include their supported defaults explicitly. Global user shell overrides can still take precedence. No shell plugins or Hyprland behavior are installed.

Backgrounds

All five are 3840×2160.

1. Dusk: the top floor of a stepped megastructure at sunset, looking out through smog at pyramids and towers (first in the theme's cycle)
2. Flight: gliding down a rain-filled canyon of megastructures, air traffic, searchlights, and flare stacks where the canyon opens
3. Blinds: a sparse apartment at night, lamp against a passing searchlight sliced by venetian blinds across textile-block walls
4. Noodle bar: an empty street counter under a dripping overhang, crates and drums for seats, steam and one cyan tube on wet asphalt
5. Atrium: an iron-and-glass atrium in decay, searchlight shafts through the skylight onto a wet tiled floor

Each still is an original generation from a written prompt that rules out people, faces, logos, readable text, and recreations of film frames. They were generated at 1672×941. Blinds and Noodle bar were retouched where the generator added a figure in a distant doorway and stencil-like marks on crates, a drum, and a wall box.

Each was then fitted to 4K with Lanczos and restored with the one-step VOSR 2.0 super-resolution model, using a wavelet colour fix. That keeps composition, lighting, and grading those of the source. Every result was compared with its source at 100% and checked by scaling it back down, so added detail is fine structure, not new objects. These are finished generations, not native 4K renders.

Lock screen

This theme styles the lock input with readable placeholder text: a muted border at rest, sodium amber while typing, and red on a wrong password. Selected text in the field is tinted sodium, not boxed in a solid block. Polkit prompts match: muted at rest and red on error. Polkit has no typing state for its border, so sodium shows through its lock glyph and text selection instead. The theme does not replace the lock design or authentication.

What it themes

Omarchy generates the rest from colors.toml when the theme is applied:

• Omarchy shell (bar, menus, notifications, OSD, lock chrome, polkit prompt)
• Alacritty, Foot, Ghostty, Kitty
• Neovim (Aether), Helix, VS Code, Obsidian
• btop, Chromium
• Hyprland active border
• Keyboard RGB (E08A3A)
• Icons: Yaru-yellow-dark

Validation

python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
./scripts/blade-runner-terminal --check
./scripts/blade-runner-terminal --terminal foot --check
./scripts/blade-runner-terminal --haze --check

The GitHub Actions workflow checks every shipped wallpaper's 4K dimensions, palette contrast and ANSI aliases, that every shell file is a real Omarchy 4 section using only palette colours, launcher argument handling and invalid options, the plain-text greeting, and GLSL compilation. The shader test requires glslangValidator and skips locally if it is absent; CI installs it. Terminal --check commands validate configs without opening a window.

Local validation uses Omarchy 4.0.4, Foot 1.28.0, and Starship 1.26.0. Shell sections were also staged through Omarchy's own template generator, and the theme was applied and reviewed live on an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Ghostty was not installed for this review: the Ghostty profile and --haze are covered here by the shader compile test, and by --check wherever Ghostty is installed.

License

MIT. The stills are original generations. The unlock mark is the Omarchy geometry recolored to sodium amber. An unofficial fan theme, not affiliated with the film or its rights holders.