Standing on the shoulders of giants. A warm, low-contrast dark theme for Omarchy built around ink on aged paper: sepia and cream foregrounds over a soft brown-black background, with a dusty terracotta accent.
This is for the original creators who made foundational contributions to computer science. (We'll do another series for Internet and later).
Ten portraits of the giants everything since was built on, drawn as ink on aged paper with technical diagrams of their contributions. Click any one for the full 6144×4096 wallpaper.
 Alan Turing and John von Neumann computability and the stored-program computer |  Grace Hopper compilers and COBOL |
 John Backus FORTRAN, BNF, and compilers |  Edsger Dijkstra structured programming and algorithms |
 C. A. R. Hoare program verification and Hoare logic |  Donald Knuth algorithms, TeX, and technical publishing |
 Ken Thompson Unix and operating systems |  Dennis Ritchie C and Unix |
 Barbara Liskov data abstraction and distributed systems |  Adleman · Rivest · Shamir RSA public-key cryptography |
Research notes, source portrait credits, licenses, and generation details are in CREDITS.md.
omarchy theme install https://github.com/dhh/omarchy-giants-theme| Role | Hex |
|---|---|
| Background | #27241f |
| Dark background | #1d1b17 |
| Darker background | #141210 |
| Lighter background | #3d3a35 |
| Foreground | #E1D5C2 |
| Accent | #97786d |
| Selection | #4f4840 |
| Muted | #8a857a |
Full ANSI palette in colors.toml. Icons are Yaru-wartybrown.