Rei

Inspiration

Named after and inspired by Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion — her signature light blue hair and eyes are the seed for this palette. The theme leans on a single muted blue (#617bb9) as the accent across the terminal, window borders, and UI, echoing her cold, quiet color scheme against a near-black background.

This character cutout — extracted from the theme's wallpaper with a transparent background — doubles as the thumbnail Omarchy's theme switcher (Super + Shift + Ctrl + Space) shows for this theme, since it drops in as preview.png at the theme's root (Omarchy looks for that file automatically, no extra config needed).

Install

omarchy theme install https://github.com/eduardofrafre/omarchy-rei-theme

This gives you the color palette, icon theme, wallpaper, and a gradient window-border color driven straight from colors.toml (see below).

Matching the border style and window transparency

The screenshot's transparent, thin, gradient window borders and the slightly see-through terminal/editor come from two places: one is baked into this theme, the other is a personal Hyprland preference you'll need to add yourself.

Already included when you install this theme — the border gradient (transparent → #617bb9 at ~70% opacity, 45°) is defined in colors.toml via Omarchy's hyprland_active_border / hyprland_inactive_border keys, and applies automatically to window borders (general.col) and window group/tab borders (group.col):

hyprland_active_border = "rgba(617bb900) rgba(617bb9b3) 45deg"
hyprland_inactive_border = "rgba(617bb955)"

Not part of the theme (add to your own ~/.config/hypr/ files) — border thickness isn't a theme color, so it lives in your personal ~/.config/hypr/looknfeel.lua:

hl.config({
  general = {
    border_size = 1,
  },
})

And the slight transparency on terminals and VS Code is a personal window rule in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua:

-- Slight transparency for terminals and the IDE (active/inactive opacity).
o.window({ tag = "terminal" }, { opacity = "0.90 0.85" })
o.window("^(code)$", { opacity = "0.90 0.85" })

After editing either file, Hyprland picks up the change on save — run hyprctl reload to force it, and hyprctl configerrors to confirm there are no typos.

Using the character as a fastfetch logo

ascii-logo.png is the same character cutout, but with the black clothing/shadow areas also made transparent — leaving just the blue outline and highlights — and pre-squashed vertically (~11%) to counteract most terminals rendering images slightly taller than wide when mapped onto monospace character cells. Point fastfetch's logo at it in ~/.config/fastfetch/config.jsonc:

{
  "logo": {
    "type": "sixel", // or "kitty" / "chafa" / "auto", depending on your terminal
    "source": "~/.local/state/omarchy/current/theme/ascii-logo.png"
  }
}

If your terminal or font metrics stretch it a bit differently than shown here, resize the source image's height up or down a few percent to compensate — the squash factor isn't universal across terminals/fonts.

Support

Rei is free and stays free. If it saved you time, you can support it on PayPal.

More of my work: eduardofrafre.com, with developer tools at tools.eduardofrafre.com.

License

MIT