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Jevie's look

One place for how Jevie looks, on the Mac and the phone: a theme, a tint, Jev himself and the font, picked from one list or said in one sentence.

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The one stop

• my lookchange my lookcustomize jevieEvery choice below in one list: themes, tints, Jev and fonts, each a row to pick
• On the phone: the gear, then the row with Jev at the topThe same list; its Your Jevie row opens the phone's studio
• make Jevie look like tokyo night… like glass… like a fox… like the oceanOne phrase for all of it: a theme's name is that theme, a look's name that look, a or an a character for Jev, anything else a mood whose colours are made from your words

Themes

• tokyo night themetheme rose pineglass themeJevie, use black appearanceblack theme · One list of 47: Aurora (the default), Black, Graphite, Light, Glass, Liquid Glass, Transparent and System, then Catppuccin, Catppuccin Latte, Ethereal, Everforest, Flexoki Light, Gruvbox, Hackerman, Jade Horse, Kanagawa, Last Horizon, Lumon, Lupine, Matte Black, Miasma, Nord, Osaka Jade, Retro 82, Ristretto, Rose Pine, Solitude, Starship, Tokyo Night, Vantablack and White, and the living ones below
• A named theme is worn whole: its own background, words and accent, and its red, yellow and green for errors, warnings and done; light ones stay light, dark ones dark
• Liquid Glass on macOS 26 is the system's own glass, tinted: in the tint you chose (tint ocean), else a smoke that keeps words white over any desktop; its edge is lit along the top over a dark hairline, so it stands off a white page; a window not in front wears it quieter
• themethemes · Every theme as you type, the worn one ticked; themes ros narrows them by name, and Tab locks the list behind a Theme chip so whatever you type next searches themes alone. ⌘J ⌘K (or the arrows) try each one on as you reach it, ↵ keeps it, Esc puts back what you had

Living themes

• lagoon themefirefliesmake Jevie look like deep spaceA theme with a scene moving behind it under panels of frosted glass, drawn as ASCII art in small tiles, each letter showing how dark its tile is (X and S darkest, ; and : lightest), every creature casting its shadow on the floor below, with soft light over the ground: Lagoon (sea turtles, a manta, a whale shark, yellow fish, floating hibiscus and plumeria), Koi Pond (koi circling under lily pads), Sakura (a branch in blossom, petals falling), Dunes (a caravan crossing at sunset), Fireflies (blinking over the grass under the moon), Northern Lights (curtains over a snowy cabin), Snowfall (snow over pines), Rainy Night (a lit city in the rain), Jellyfish (pulsing in the deep) and Deep Space (a ringed planet, twinkling stars, a comet now and then)
• gruvbox campfirekanagawa wavetokyo night trainThe Linux themes, living: each wears the colours of the plain theme it is named after, with a scene drawn in them: Gruvbox Campfire (a fire crackling between pines, sparks rising, smoke drifting off), Kanagawa Wave (swells breaking into claws of foam under a red sun, Fuji far off, boats riding), Nord Glacier (icebergs drifting on a cold sea, a whale surfacing to blow), Tokyo Night Train (a train crossing the river on its viaduct past towers lit amber, cyan and violet, all of it upside down in the water) and Catppuccin Meadow (pastel flowers swaying under a pink moon, butterflies wandering). gruvbox alone is still the plain theme
• lamplit studysynthwave drivemake Jevie look like earthriseThirteen moods, each a place at an hour, every one with ink at least 7:1 on its panels: Lantern Harbour (paper lanterns let go from a night harbour, rising, boats at anchor), Synthwave Drive (a banded sun sinking behind a neon road rushing at you), Lamplit Study (shelves of books by a flickering lamp, dust in its light, a mug steaming), Balloon Morning (striped hot-air balloons rising over green hills, a flock passing; light), Monsoon Canopy (rain through big dripping leaves, vines, a tree frog blinking), Alpine Dawn (the sun climbing behind snowy ranges, mist between them; light), Ember Forge (a volcano smoking, lava down its slopes and in a river, embers rising), Paper Boats (folded boats riding the lines of a notebook in the rain; light), Glowcap Hollow (mushrooms breathing light in a cave, a pulse running along the threads under the moss), Brass Clockwork (gears that truly mesh, turning, a pendulum swinging), Raked Garden (raked sand ringing mossy stones, a fresh pass travelling, maple leaves falling; light), Lighthouse Watch (a storm, swells and foam, the beam sweeping round) and Earthrise (the Earth turning over the Moon's horizon, a rover crawling)
• winter marketautumn lanemake Jevie look like tulip fieldsThe seasons: Skating Pond (skaters circling a frozen pond, lines left in the ice, snow falling; light), Frosted Window (frost creeping in at a window's corners and drawing back, snow outside, a candle on the sill), Winter Market (a lit tree in the square, striped stalls, strings of lights twinkling, snow), Tulip Fields (bands of tulips running to the horizon, a windmill turning, bees; light), Seaside Noon (the sea washing in and out over the sand, striped umbrellas, gulls, a sail far off; light), Autumn Lane (a lane between trees in orange, red and gold, leaves swirling down; light) and Harvest Moon (a huge orange moon behind a bare tree, crows crossing it, pumpkins in the fog)
• On the phone the scene is finer and the glass thinner, so it shows more
• Put on, the scene opens from the middle as a ring of light

Opacity

• opacityJevie opacityThe slider appears under the field as you type, before return: drag it to make Jevie's background more or less see-through, from 10% to 100%; the words stay solid
• opacity 80%make Jevie more see-throughmake Jevie less transparentSet it, or step it, without the slider
• It is every Jevie surface at once: the palette, menus and panels. Transparent is a different thing, a look with no background at all

Tints and moods

• tint oceanmake jevie pinkjevie in greenno tintA colour Jevie rests in, with any theme
• tinttintsEvery tint as you type, the worn one ticked; tints oc narrows them, and Tab locks the list behind a Tint chip. ⌘J ⌘K (or the arrows) try each one on as you reach it, ↵ keeps it, Esc puts back what you had
• make jevie look minimalmake jevie spookyA mood for its colours; the mascot changes only when you name it (make the mascot spooky)
• mood: matcha lattemake Jevie look like the oceanColours made from words, a field of them behind everything
• change mood to dunesswitch theme to tokyo nightchange theme to aurorachange jevie theme to firefliesA theme or a look by its name, my or not; a word that is no theme (change theme to cozy) is a mood only when Jevie or my is said. change theme to dark stays the Mac's dark mode

Jev

• your jevieThe studio: character, colour, temper and name (Your Jevie)
• mascotsmake jevie a foxsurprise meAnother character
• make it a sleepy teal cat called MochiCharacter, colour, temper and name at once

Make your own

• make a theme: foggy harbour at dawncreate my own theme called Harbour: …A theme made from your words, worn at once and kept; from then on it is a theme like the rest (harbour theme, and in themes)
• make a mascot: a sleepy moth with big eyesdesign a mascot that looks like a tiny dragon made of teacupsA new Jev drawn from your words, worn at once and kept (mascot moth, and under Yours in mascots)
• make my theme warmer… lightermake my mascot orange… bigger earstweak mascot Moth: sleepierThe one you are wearing (or the one named) changed by what you say, the rest kept
• my themesmy mascotsThe ones you made, each a row that wears it
• share my themeshare mascot MothCopies its code; paste a code into Jevie (jevie-theme:…, v2:…) or say add theme <code> to add someone else's
• delete theme Harbour · delete mascot Moth

Import a terminal theme

• import theme catppuccin frappeadd theme draculaimport the gruvbox dark iterm theme · Any of the ~900 colour schemes in iTerm2-Color-Schemes, by name in any case, kept as one of your themes and worn at once; its 16 terminal colours come with it, so the Mac's terminal shows them as the scheme's author chose
• A name that is not exact (import theme catppucin, add theme gruvbox) imports the closest one, and the next two closest are rows under it to import instead
• import theme ~/Downloads/Nord.itermcolors · drop an .itermcolors or a Ghostty theme file on Jev, then import theme · The same from a file on your Mac
• A scheme that shares a name with one of Jevie's themes is kept as … (iTerm), so both are there (catppuccin latte (iTerm) theme)

Font

• fontsfont iosevkause fira code fontfont sf monoWhat code, key hints and the terminal are written in: SF Mono, JetBrains Mono, Cascadia Mono, Meslo LG, Fira Code, Victor Mono, Bitstream Vera Mono, Iosevka or iA Writer Mono, all bundled

How it works

Every choice is one look, kept on the Mac and worn by the palette, the session wall, the notch and the phone, which changes within a second without a reload. Each row in the list is a sentence, so whatever you can tap you can also say or type.

A theme sets every colour Jevie draws with, not a backdrop: the surface is its background, the words its foreground, the accent its own. Words are kept at 7:1 contrast on its ground and secondary words, the accent and the state colours at 4.5:1, moved toward black or white only as far as that takes. Nothing is tinted over a theme, neither your tint nor an answer's (the weather's warmth). A theme counts as a whole choice, so its accent also wins over Jev's colour while it is worn.

Make Jevie look like … is decided in code, never by a model: theme names first, then looks, then a character after a or an, then a mood.

A theme or mascot you make comes from a model, as JSON with nothing in it that runs: a theme is its ground, words, accent and warning colours; a mascot is the soft shapes Jevie's own characters are drawn from (a cast character to start from, up to ten circles, ellipses and tapers added, up to two features in a second colour, up to three colourways). Code checks it before anything is worn: a theme's words are moved until they read at 7:1 and its accent and states at 4.5:1; a mascot's numbers are kept to the drawing, and one whose body does not reach round its middle is sent back once with what is wrong. A mascot carries its whole drawing in its name (the v2: code), so the Mac, the notch, the phone and Windows draw it with nothing to install, and sharing it is sending that code.

A shared code is checked the same way when it is added.

An imported scheme is read as data: only its colours are taken from the file (palette = 0=#… lines, or an .itermcolors' red, green and blue numbers), every other line is passed over and nothing in it is run or followed. The scheme becomes a theme as a made one does: light or dark by how bright its background is, the accent the first of its blue, magenta and cyan that already reads at 4.5:1 on the background (else its blue, moved until it does), its red, yellow and green the states. A name is matched in code against the list of the collection's names Jevie carries, and only that one file is asked of GitHub, at raw.githubusercontent.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes, never anywhere else.

Limits

• Opacity is the Mac's for now; with Reduce Transparency on in System Settings Jevie stays solid whatever it is set to.
• Dark mode said alone means the Mac; say Jevie to mean Jevie.
• A mood needs a model to make its colours; without one the look stays. A theme needs none.
• The fonts cover Latin text; other scripts fall back to the Mac's own. A view already open keeps its font until it is drawn again.
• On Windows and Linux the web palette wears the font for code; SF Mono, the Mac's own, is JetBrains Mono there.
• A living theme's scene stands still with Reduce Motion on, and on the Mac is gone with Reduce Transparency (the theme's colours stay). It moves only while Jevie is on screen.
• Characters are drawn on the Mac and the phone; the Windows palette shows the same Jev.
• Making a theme or a mascot needs a model: a theme takes a few seconds, a mascot ten to twenty-five. With no model a theme is made from the words' own colours; a mascot is not made.
• Importing by name needs the internet, and knows the schemes in the collection when this Jevie was built; a newer one imports from its file. A scheme file larger than 64 KB, or one without a background, words and all 16 colours, is not imported. On the phone and Windows an imported theme is worn like any other, but only the Mac's terminal uses its 16 colours.
• A made mascot is drawn from the same parts as the cast, so it is a soft, rounded character: no thin lines, text or pictures.

Where it's kept

The look: ~/.jevie/appearance.json (written by the Mac, read by the phone and the web), ~/.jevie/settings.json look off a Mac, ~/.jevie/self/mascot.md for Jev, ~/.jevie/self/themes.md and ~/.jevie/self/mascots.md for the ones you made (my-themes.json, my-mascots.json beside them). Made ones: jevie/kernel/made.mjs (making, checking, sharing), jevie/kernel/theme-import.mjs (terminal schemes imported; the names in jevie/kernel/iterm-schemes.json, from .blocks/iterm-schemes.mjs), jevie/surfaces/appearance/made.mjs (the sentences), madeDesign in jevie/assets/jev/jev.js (drawing a v2: mascot). The named themes: jevie/kernel/themes.json, from Omarchy's colors.toml (.blocks/omarchy-themes.mjs); the living themes' scenes: jevie/assets/scenes/scenes.js, drawn by SceneView (jevie/macos/MoodTheme.swift) and scene-canvas.ts on the web and the phone; the fonts are those of Omarchy's font menu (.blocks/mono-fonts.mjs).

In Jevie, help look answers from this page as you type.

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