# Installation from GitHub
Copy the theme you want to your btop themes directory:
The btop themes directory is:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/btop/themes, if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set
~/.config/btop/themes, otherwise
Update your btop config:
color_theme = "squirrelsong-dark"
theme_background = true
truecolor = true
Squirrelsong themes are low-contrast color schemes with great readability for web developers and non-distracting UI themes for many apps. It’s also available for:
Alfred , Bear , Brave , btop, CotEditor , Cursor , Fastmail , Firefox , fzf , Ghostty , Google Chrome , IntelliJ IDEA , iTerm2 , JetBrains , Marta File Manager , Microsoft Edge , Midnight Commander , Neovim , Nimble Commander , Obsidian , Pearcleaner , PhpStorm , PyCharm , RubyMine , Slack , Sublime Text , Telegram , Terminal.app , Vim , Visual Studio Code , Vivaldi , Warp , WebStorm , WezTerm