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awesome-tui-design
cola-runner April 5, 2026
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DESIGN.md for Terminal UI — curated TUI design systems for AI coding agents. Source-code-level research from Claude Code, Lazygit, btop, k9s and more.
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<strong>Curated collection of DESIGN.md files for terminal UI — researched from real TUI source code.</strong>
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[](https://github.com/cola-runner/awesome-tui-design)
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# Awesome TUI Design
Drop a `DESIGN.md` into your project, tell your AI agent "build me a terminal UI that looks like this" — and it just works.
Just like [awesome-design-md](https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-design-md) does for web UI, we do the same for **terminal UI**. No SDK, no dependencies — just Markdown that AI reads natively.
## How to Use
**1.** Pick a theme from the [list below](#themes) and download it into your project:
```bash
# e.g. claude-code — replace with any theme: lazygit, dracula, catppuccin...
curl -o DESIGN.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cola-runner/awesome-tui-design/master/designs/claude-code/DESIGN.md
```
**2.** Ask your AI agent:
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Build me a terminal dashboard following the DESIGN.md in this project
```
Or clone the whole repo and let your agent pick a theme for you: `git clone https://github.com/cola-runner/awesome-tui-design.git`
## Themes
### AI & Agent CLIs
- [**Claude Code**](designs/claude-code/DESIGN.md) - Anthropic's coding agent. Warm terracotta `#D77757` accent, dashed ASCII input borders, hot pink `#FD5DB1` tool blocks, whimsical `· ✢ ✳ ✶ ✻ ✽` thinking spinner
- [**Codex CLI**](designs/codex/DESIGN.md) - OpenAI's coding agent. Monochrome adaptive, cosine-wave shimmer animation, `▌│└` gutter output, 10 variants of 36-frame ASCII startup art
- [**Cursor CLIComments
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