Prior Art

This isn't the first theme switcher, and it certainly won't be the last. Alternative tools are worth discussing. They may match your needs better, and the discussion helps to show how thcon fits into the space.

Broadly speaking though: Most of these tools optimize for switching to an entirely new colorscheme often. For example, switching from Solarized to Catppuccin to gruvbox to (…). These often exclude system settings, which can lead to an unexpectedly still-bright file browser or a system volume slider that's too dark for the current surroundings.

thcon instead optimizes for switching between dark and light variants of a single theme, and considers desktop environment / OS settings "in scope". If you make your terminal dark, you likely also want your global panel, file navigator, window switcher, system dialogs etc. to also be dark.

Gogh

Gogh is an excellent theme installer that can automatically set up a new profile in one of several terminals. It's a good complement to thcon, since it can reduce the effort involved in setting up profiles when adopting a new color scheme.

Base16 + Flavours

The Base16 project has produced tons of themes and spawned several accompanying tools.

Flavours

Flavours supports far more applications due to its support for base16-templates-source, but it's unable to switch desktop environment themes, integrate with tools that don't support config-file switching (e.g. macOS's global dark theme), or use themes that are outside the base16 family.

base16-universal-manager

base16-universal-manager is quite similar to flavours, and will download, install, and switch themes for any base16-templates-source app. It unfortunately has the same limitations as flavours as a result.

Pywal

A classic in this space, pywal is pretty similar to flavours/base16-universal-manager. It can control many of the same tools, and its likely most popular for its ability to generate a custom colorscheme from an image. Like the other tools listed, it's unable to switch more global OS-level themes.

Missing Something?

There's certainly a few tools missing here. Please open an issue and let me know what I've missed.