Why I Built This in Tokyo Night

Tokyo Night is the theme I keep coming back to. It’s dark without going flat black, and every accent color is desaturated just enough that nothing fights for attention.

The palette, roughly

Bringing it to the web

The trick was treating the whole page like an editor window instead of just reusing the colors on a normal layout — a sidebar file tree, tabs, a status bar. Once the chrome was right, the color choices felt obvious instead of arbitrary.

:root {
  --bg: #1a1b26;
  --accent: #7aa2f7;
}