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CC Commander ships with 10 visual themes that change the look of the interactive TUI. Each theme sets the gradient colors for ASCII art, the primary and accent palette for menus and borders, the spinner style, and the success/error indicator colors. You get a live preview as you navigate — no restart required.

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Switching Themes

Open CC Commander and navigate to Settings → Theme. Themes preview in real time as you scroll through the list.
Your chosen theme is persisted in ~/.claude/commander/state.json and loads automatically on the next ccc launch.

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All 10 Themes

Cyberpunk

Default theme. Cyan primary, hot-pink secondary, deep-purple accent. Rounded borders. High-contrast neon palette on a near-black background. Inspired by terminal aesthetics of the 1980s science fiction genre.

Fire

Amber primary, deep-orange secondary, bright-yellow accent. Heavy borders. Warm gradient from gold to red in the logo. Best on dark terminal backgrounds.

Graffiti

Yellow primary, hot-pink secondary, sky-blue accent. Single-line borders. Three-stop gradient (yellow → pink → cyan) in the ASCII logo. High-energy, street-art palette.

Futuristic

Periwinkle primary, lavender secondary, mint accent. Rounded borders. Soft blue-purple gradient. A quieter high-tech look for extended work sessions.

Ocean

Sky-blue primary, seafoam secondary, teal accent. Rounded borders. Three-stop gradient (sky-blue → seafoam → deep-blue) in the logo. Cool and easy on the eyes.

Aurora

Bright-green primary, cyan secondary, violet accent. Rounded borders. Three-stop gradient (green → cyan → purple) that mimics northern lights. Vibrant but balanced.

Sunset

Warm-orange primary, hot-pink secondary, golden-yellow accent. Heavy borders. Three-stop gradient (red-orange → gold → pink) in the logo. Rich warm palette.

Monochrome

Light-gray primary, mid-gray secondary, white accent. Single-line borders. Two-stop gradient (gray → white). Clean and minimal — reduces visual noise during long sessions.

Rainbow

Cyan primary, magenta secondary, yellow accent. Rounded borders. Six-stop full-spectrum gradient across the logo. Maximum color expression.

Dracula

Soft-purple primary, pink secondary, light-blue accent. Rounded borders. Two-stop gradient (purple → pink). Based on the popular Dracula color scheme with its near-black highlight background.

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What Themes Affect

ElementHow Themes Change It
ASCII logo gradientEach theme sets its own multi-stop RGB gradient and font
Menu item highlightsPrimary and secondary colors applied to selected rows
Border styleEach theme specifies rounded, heavy, or single borders
SpinnerInherits the theme’s primary color
Success indicatorsBright green (most themes) or theme-specific
Error indicatorsBright red (most themes) or theme-specific
Dim textVaries by theme — affects unselected items and labels
CC Commander ships four base themes (Cyberpunk, Fire, Graffiti, Futuristic) and six extended themes (Ocean, Aurora, Sunset, Monochrome, Rainbow, Dracula). All 10 are available immediately after install.

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Disabling Colors

If you are running CC Commander in a CI/CD pipeline, a log aggregator, or a terminal that does not support ANSI codes, disable all color output: 
CC_NO_COLOR=1 ccc --dispatch "run tests" --json
Setting CC_NO_COLOR=1 suppresses all ANSI escape codes — gradients, theme colors, spinner animations, and status bar formatting. The output is plain text suitable for logging. CC_NO_ANIMATION=1 disables spinners and gradient animations but preserves static color if you want colored output without moving parts.
CC Commander auto-detects common CI environment variables and suppresses animations automatically. Set CC_NO_COLOR=1 explicitly when you also need to strip color codes from log output.