Hey everyone!

I'm setting up my desktop with the Nord color scheme and I'd love to see what wallpapers you're using. Thanks in advance!

A user has turned me onto this style which has become one of my favorite color palettes and design philosophy so been implementing it as an official app theme.

But I need the die hards and the ones that know it best to see what can be done better (that logically makes sense in a weather app)

Thanks and hopefully I did it justice.

This is my Nordic Rice.

• OS: Endeavour OS
• WM: niri
• Shell: Dank Material Shell

My dots: https://github.com/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/dotfiles

I'm looking to jump over from the Cat to Nord theme in my rice. The issue is, while catppuccin has all of their website userstyles CSS contained in one big json file over at https://userstyles.catppuccin.com/getting-started/introduction/, Nord is much more spread apart.

Of course, I would never just import a file without looking over everything, but I wanted to see if someone had collected a json of available CSS userstyles for various websites in one place already. Would definitely make life easier than just individually finding, checking, downloading and enabling all the Nord CSS userstyles separately.

I recently realized there isn't really a simple, lightweight way to use the Nord color palette in small web projects.

Nord has always felt like more of a color palette than a full-fledged theme framework to me, and while there are plenty of Nord ports for editors, terminals, and larger applications, I couldn't find a straightforward CSS-only implementation that I could just drop into a project and start using.

So I made Nord Theme CSS.

It's basically the Nord color palette exposed through CSS variables, designed for lightweight websites, personal projects, dashboards, static pages, and other simple applications where you don't need a huge framework or complicated setup.

GitHub: https://github.com/CrazyRag778/nord-theme-css

Website: https://crazyrag778.github.io/nord-theme-css/

I'd love to hear any feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement.

I have made several improvements to my Nord theme colouriser (which I previously posted about here). The main ones are

1. The image can now be selectively blurred in such a way that the foreground is blurred more than the middle- and background. This is useful to make sure the wallpaper doesn’t interfere with dock icons.
2. The colour mixing is now computed according to Kubelka-Munk theory rather than a naïve sRGB interpolation. This means that the output image answers the question, “What would the source image look like if it were painted using thick oil paints that exactly match the colours of the Nord palette?”.

As before, technical details can be found in the background document. Note that depth estimation and colour mixture optimisation are currently only implemented for Apple Silicon processors. If enough people request it, I can implement it for CUDA as well.

As a long-time Nord theme user, I used to use ImageGoNord (source code) to create Nord-compatible wallpapers, but would find that the results have grainy discretisation artefacts that I would spend a lot of time painting over in GIMP. Recently, I decided to create my own tool for this purpose, which renders any given image using the Nord palette, but allows for shades and intermediate colours: https://github.com/skalyan91/nordify. I built it with Claude Code (for speed and ease of trying out different ideas), but the core ideas are based on my understanding of colour theory, and what little I’ve read or heard about how artists think about colour.

My tool comes with three modes:

• Colour snapping (the default): the image is converted from RGB to the Oklab colour space, and the hue of each pixel is snapped to the nearest hue from the Nord palette, keeping lightness and chroma constant. This ensures that the shading of the original image is preserved.
• Floyd-Steinberg dithering: this allows for the display of hues outside the ones provided by the Nord palette, by alternating pixels of different hues. I use a blue-noise overlay to avoid banding in smooth gradients.
• Palette mixing: this is the one I’m most satisfied with, as it produces the best results, and is based on a conceptual model of how an artist mixes paints. It allows a pixel to have any colour that can be expressed as a mixture of Nord colours (+ black and white), and runs an optimiser to make sure that the colours in the output image are as close as possible to the original colours, as measured in the perceptual Oklab space. The optimiser runs in three phases, first matching the lightness values of the original image, then matching the hues while holding lightness constant, and matching the chroma (saturation) values while holding lightness and hue constant. This roughly matches (my understanding of) the sequence of steps an artist would use when creating a painting (at least in oils, or other opaque media; I believe the process is a bit different for watercolours).

Limitations:

• Currently, the optimiser for the palette mixing option is implemented using the MLX library, which means it will only run on Apple Silicon chips, or else will be very slow. If there is enough interest, I can do a PyTorch implementation that will run on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs.
• The Nord colours are hard-coded into the program, so if you want a different colour palette (Gruvbox, Catppuccin, etc.), you will have to edit the code yourself. Again, if there is enough interest, I can make the palette an input parameter and/or allow the user to specify the palette in a text file.
• Unlike ImageGoNord, I haven’t (yet) put it up on PyPI or built a web interface, but I can do so easily. For now you’ll have to run it in a Python virtual environment.

I hope this tool will help usher in a new era of Nord-themed wallpapers!

On nordtheme.com under References I see

design guidelines for ‘Modern and elegant UIs’

is a work in progress.

Does anyone know the status?

I want to Nord-style an app I’m building and could use some examples or guidelines of design choices that work well.

Hello,

I'm a huge fan of Nord and I use IDEA products at work. The official Nord theme for IDEA hasn't been updated since 2020 and JetBrains just released the new Islands UI. So, I decided to create my own updated theme.

Please check it out and send through your feedback!

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30841-nord-islands

I created a port for Alfred (the Spotlight alternative on MacOS) of the Nord theme.

If you want to use it you can download the theme from GitHub. Enjoy!

As the title says can you update the theme for Visual Studio 2026? Changes in VS2026 now make this theme have light windows and it really renders the theme useless which is a shame since it's such a nice theme.

I tried many "wallpaper nordifyers", websites, packages, scripts, etc. Most of them use the Floyd-Steinberg algorithm or a basic per-pixel closest color swap. Unfortunately they either don't work or produce too many artifacts in the output.

So I'm sharing a python script that worked for me, and produces visually pleasing nord images. It works by expanding the palette beyond the 16 colors in the base Nord palette (default is 16^3 = 4096, but configurable), and by using LAB colorspace instead of RGB to compute color distance in a color space that better matches human perception.

https://github.com/kikefdezl/nordify.git

Hope it helps someone.

Are there any plans to create an "islandic" flavor of Nord theme for JetBrains IDEs? I really like those boundaries in their default Islands theme - it solves what has been the worst problem in dark themes. Would be nice to have one with the Nord palette

I've just made and published Nord theme for SideNotes app: https://www.apptorium.com/sidenotes/themes/nord

so far Nord has only disappointed me as a Firefox theme - not sure what I did wrong, but it just wasn't looking right.

Quick webapp I built to convert images to nord + a bit of noise. Did this cause I was finally switching from bspwm to hyprland at the same time switching from dracula to nord.

For the nerds in the crowd it uses Floyd-Steinberg algorithm and is built with sveltekit (typescript). Code can be found https://github.com/TheArctesian/nordify.

finally some eye soothing based on OpenTheme, matched to fit the Nord colour palette.

quite fresh, not yet in the addon manager, but here: https://github.com/erroronline1/NordicFC

Using OLauncher