Import & export themes

TermZ ships light and dark themes, and a theme editor for building your own. Custom themes (and their keyword-highlighting) can be exported and imported as JSON, so you can back them up or share them.

Open the theme editor

Settings → Appearance & Display → Customize themes… opens the theme editor. The active theme is chosen from the dropdown just above that button.

A theme is a set of ~60 tokens — UI surfaces, text, accent, status colors, the full 16-color ANSI palette, keyword-highlight colors, and effects — all retinted together.

Export a theme

In the theme editor, click Export. TermZ copies a JSON bundle to your clipboard. Paste it into a .json file to save or share it.

The bundle is:

{
  "theme":     { "id": "...", "name": "My Theme", "tokens": { /* colors */ } },
  "highlight": { /* optional keyword-highlighting scheme */ }
}

Highlighting travels with the theme

If you have custom keyword highlighting, it’s included in the export. Whoever imports your theme gets your highlighting too.

Import a theme

1. In the theme editor, open the Import panel.
2. Paste the theme JSON into the box.
3. Click Import & apply.

TermZ accepts either a full bundle ({ theme, highlight }) or a bare theme object. The imported theme is given a fresh id, so it never overwrites one you already have, and it’s applied immediately. If the bundle carries a highlight scheme, that’s imported as well.

Note

Import/export is clipboard + paste, not file dialogs, and the format is JSON (there’s no TOML). Themes are validated on import; an invalid payload is rejected rather than partially applied.