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# Third-party notices |
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The `themes/` directory contains color palettes adapted from third-party open |
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source projects. This file records, for each one, the upstream project, its |
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license, and the exact copyright line that license requires be reproduced. |
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Every upstream listed here was verified against its actual LICENSE file rather |
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than against secondhand claims. Where verification turned up a gap, the gap is |
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stated plainly instead of being papered over with a plausible-looking name. |
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## What "adapted" means |
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None of these files are verbatim copies. Upstream projects publish palettes as |
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editor themes, Vim colorschemes, or design tokens; none ship a file in |
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makeover's intent schema. Each theme here re-expresses an upstream palette into |
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that schema, mapping colors onto roles (`surface`, `content`, `action`, |
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`status`, `line`, `category`) and deriving interactive states perceptually. The |
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hex values originate upstream. The structure, role assignments, and derived |
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tokens are this project's work. |
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The adaptations are offered under this project's MIT license. The underlying |
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palettes remain the work of their original authors, credited below. |
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## Adapted themes |
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| `akari-dawn`, `akari-night` | [Akari](https://github.com/cappyzawa/akari-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2025 Shu Kutsuzawa | |
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| `ayu-mirage` | [Ayu](https://github.com/dempfi/ayu) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2016 Ike Kurghinyani | |
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| `ayu-light` | [ayu-colors](https://github.com/ayu-theme/ayu-colors) | MIT | Copyright (c) Konstantin Pschera \<me@kons.ch\> | |
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| `carbonfox`, `dawnfox`, `nightfox` | [nightfox.nvim](https://github.com/EdenEast/nightfox.nvim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2021 James Simpson | |
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| `catppuccin-frappe`, `catppuccin-latte`, `catppuccin-macchiato`, `catppuccin-mocha` | [Catppuccin](https://github.com/catppuccin/catppuccin) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2021 Catppuccin | |
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| `dracula` | [Dracula](https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2023 Dracula Theme | |
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| `everforest` | [Everforest](https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2019 sainnhe | |
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| `flatwhite` | [flatwhite-syntax](https://github.com/biletskyy/flatwhite-syntax) | MIT (see note) | no holder named upstream | |
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| `gruvbox-dark`, `gruvbox-light` | [gruvbox](https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox) | MIT/X11 asserted (see note) | no holder named upstream | |
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| `kanagawa` | [kanagawa.nvim](https://github.com/rebelot/kanagawa.nvim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2021 Tommaso Laurenzi | |
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| `nord` | [Nord](https://github.com/nordtheme/nord) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2016-present Sven Greb \<development@svengreb.de\> | |
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| `one-dark` | [Atom One Dark](https://github.com/atom/one-dark-syntax) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2016 GitHub Inc. | |
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| `oxocarbon-dark`, `oxocarbon-light` | [oxocarbon.nvim](https://github.com/nyoom-engineering/oxocarbon.nvim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2022 Riccardo Mazzarini | |
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| `poimandres` | [poimandres-theme](https://github.com/drcmda/poimandres-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2023 drcmda | |
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| `rosepine`, `rosepine-dawn` | [Rosé Pine](https://github.com/rose-pine/neovim) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2023 Rosé Pine | |
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| `solarized-dark` | [Solarized](https://github.com/altercation/solarized) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2011 Ethan Schoonover | |
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| `tokyonight` | [Tokyo Night](https://github.com/tokyo-night/tokyo-night-vscode-theme) | MIT | Copyright (c) 2018-present Enkia | |
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Several of these credit a person where the project is better known by a GitHub |
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handle, because the license names the person: nightfox.nvim is James Simpson |
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(handle EdenEast), oxocarbon.nvim is Riccardo Mazzarini (hosted under the |
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nyoom-engineering org), and Atom One Dark is GitHub Inc. |
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## Notes on incomplete upstream licensing |
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Two upstreams assert permissive terms but provide no copyright holder, so there |
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is no line to reproduce. Both are long-established and widely redistributed as |
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MIT. They are included on that basis, with the gap recorded rather than filled |
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in by guesswork. |
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**gruvbox** ships no LICENSE file. Its README states only "MIT/X11", linking to |
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a Wikipedia article rather than to license text, and names no holder. Pavel |
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Pertsev (morhetz) is the repository owner and apparent author, but that name |
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appears in no license document. |
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**flatwhite-syntax** ships an MIT license whose holder field was never filled |
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in; it reads literally `<Your name here>`. biletskyy is the repository owner and |
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apparent author. |
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If you maintain either project, we would gladly correct this entry: adding or |
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completing a LICENSE file upstream is all it takes. |
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## Removed |
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**Material Palenight** was previously bundled and has been removed. It was |
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credited to Mattia Astorino under MIT; both fields were wrong. The original |
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Material Theme was retroactively relicensed to proprietary terms in February |
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2025 with its commit history rewritten, and its repository path now redirects to |
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a commercial product. A genuinely MIT-licensed unofficial port exists |
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([whizkydee/vscode-palenight-theme](https://github.com/whizkydee/vscode-palenight-theme), |
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Copyright (c) 2017-present Olaolu Olawuyi), but it derives from that same |
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palette, so the chain of permission cannot be audited. The theme was dropped |
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rather than shipped on an unverifiable basis. |
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## Original themes |
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`akari-dawn` and `akari-night` are adaptations, listed above. The following are |
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this project's own work and carry no third-party claim: |
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- `makenotwork` — the makenot.work platform palette |
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- `goingson` — the GoingsOn application palette |
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- `audiofiles` — the audiofiles application palette |
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- `high-contrast` — an accessibility-oriented palette |
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- `neobrute` — a cooler-toned light palette sharing an ancestry with `goingson` |
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## Corrections |
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If any attribution here is wrong, incomplete, or you would prefer your work not |
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be included, open a ticket or write to info@makenot.work and it will be |
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corrected or removed. |
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