Nord preset

Nord is the initial built-in preset for the terminal design system. It supplies palette values and semantic color assignments; shared tokens, components and native adapters remain reusable across presets. The preset input identifies its source and defines its ANSI slots. It currently inherits the shared presentation defaults without overrides.

Its sixteen base colors follow the official Nord palette: Polar Night for surfaces, Snow Storm for text, Frost for accents and Aurora for status. The application mappings are this repository’s policy. Shared diff recipes blend semantic colors into the surface at 16%, emphasized changed words at 30%, and staged signs at 55%; those recipes belong to the design system rather than the Nord palette.

Palette

Values come directly from this preset’s input, independently of the currently generated preset.

nord0#2E3440

nord1#3B4252

nord2#434C5E

nord3#4C566A

nord4#D8DEE9

nord5#E5E9F0

nord6#ECEFF4

nord7#8FBCBB

nord8#88C0D0

nord9#81A1C1

nord10#5E81AC

nord11#BF616A

nord12#D08770

nord13#EBCB8B

nord14#A3BE8C

nord15#B48EAD

Select this preset

Choose "theme": "nord" in preset selection, then run make theme-generate. For an isolated output, use python3 scripts/theme.py --theme nord --output-dir /tmp/nord-preset. Apply configuration and use the native reload instructions in the design-system guide.

Native examples

These images render captured application cells, including foreground, background and emphasis. They are saved examples, not interactive previews or HTML imitations of application widgets. The JSON baselines retain attributes beyond those visible in a screenshot. Native captures use isolated homes and caches; they do not contain live session data.

Actual Neovim rendering of the shared Lua fixture

Actual Zellij prefix banner

Native CLI status atoms and key hint

Actual fzf results with a selected row

Actual bat syntax highlighting of the shared Lua fixture

Actual delta output for the shared code change

Actual Glow rendering of the shared Markdown fixture

Neovim baselines inspect resolved native highlights after loading the real Gitsigns, lualine and fzf-lua plugins and after reloading the colorscheme. The existing Zellij status workflow checks actual rendered prefix and attention states. These checks complement the saved pager examples; they do not establish every enabled plugin’s interactive appearance.

Baseline

The pre-migration settings and Neovim observations preserve the old customized appearance. Intentional normalization replaces the non-Nord Kitty selection, extra bright ANSI colors, purple primary focus, and hand-picked Git diff backgrounds. The independent JSON baselines live under design-system/baselines/nord/. Native captures are stored under docs/design-system/presets/nord/, so recording another preset cannot replace these examples.