[bug] [themes]: Dracula Theme Color Scheme not respected

[Bellisario]

TL;DR

The current built-in Dracula theme doesn't respect the official Dracula scheme, uses different colors and is missing light-versions of colors (reusing "non-light" versions), presenting contrast issues.

What I've experienced

I have just installed Ghostty and I chose to use the Dracula color scheme, as I did with Kitty.
Just after the first seconds I tried using zsh-autosuggestions but saw the autocompletion color in Ghostty was different than the one in Kitty (and the one in Ghostty had really low contrast with the background).

Kitty (left) vs Ghostty (right):

After investigating a bit, I discovered that the colors used by Kitty's Dracula theme are (mostly) different in Ghostty. For example, the autocompletion color used is the "8th color", which is #6272a4 for Kitty, while #555555 for Ghostty.

Anyway, I'm certain the "wrong" color scheme is Ghostty's because Kitty uses the color scheme from the official Dracula (org) repo, while Ghostty seems to use iTerm 2 "unofficial" theme.

Here are the (comparable) schemes used by Kitty and Ghostty, respectively (from the links above):

Light versions of colors are completely reused from non-light ones, some colors are different from the ones used by Kitty (ex. background)

Kitty

Ghostty

foreground #f8f8f2 background #282a36 selection_foreground #ffffff selection_background #44475a # black color0 #21222c color8 #6272a4 # red color1 #ff5555 color9 #ff6e6e # green color2 #50fa7b color10 #69ff94 # yellow color3 #f1fa8c color11 #ffffa5 # blue color4 #bd93f9 color12 #d6acff # magenta color5 #ff79c6 color13 #ff92df # cyan color6 #8be9fd color14 #a4ffff # white color7 #f8f8f2 color15 #ffffff # Cursor colors cursor #f8f8f2 cursor_text_color background

foreground = #f8f8f2 background = #1e1f29 selection-foreground = #ffffff selection-background = #44475a # black palette = 0=#000000 palette = 8=#555555 # red palette = 1=#ff5555 palette = 9=#ff5555 # green palette = 2=#50fa7b palette = 10=#50fa7b # yellow palette = 3=#f1fa8c palette = 11=#f1fa8c # blue palette = 4=#bd93f9 palette = 12=#bd93f9 # magenta palette = 5=#ff79c6 palette = 13=#ff79c6 # cyan palette = 6=#8be9fd palette = 14=#8be9fd # white palette = 7=#bbbbbb palette = 15=#ffffff cursor-color = #bbbbbb

Haven't looked at other themes but I hope they respect the original theme scheme... in my case the only flaw of migrating from Kitty to Ghostty was just the theme.

Throughts

From what I've experienced, I really liked the way Ghostty let you choose a theme, but what I really feel missing is support of official themes (ex. Dracula, Cappuccin), that should be in the "Ghostty org" or in the "theme org", not a "third-party org".

[mitchellh]

Upstream: https://iterm2colorschemes.com

[Gelmo]

Just posted about this here - mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes#487

[Gelmo]

@Bellisario @mitchellh This has now been resolved upstream, if you want to run that workflow manually

[mitchellh]

Thanks, I'll do so before the next release, otherwise the weekly job will get it.

[Gelmo]

Now that I've tested this, it unfortunately is not resolved. More info here - mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes#490 (comment)