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I've been a long user of pygments, it's been the thing that injects with funny little class names like and into the code blocks of my website. I've even gone...
Date: July 17, 2025
I’ve been a long user of pygments, it’s been the thing that injects with funny little class names like sc and si into the code blocks of my website. I’ve even gone as far as implementing a plugin for md-it , but I had no idea how to re-style it. I long ago got a theme that looked good enough from somewhere and just used it, maybe I pulled something from their docs site and forgot. Today I learned you can list all the themes easily from the library itself, and render out new css.
```
from pygments.styles import get_all_styles
list(get_all_styles())
# [
# 'abap',
# 'algol_nu',
# 'algol',
# 'arduino',
# 'autumn',
# 'borland',
# 'bw',
# 'colorful',
# 'default',
# 'dracula',
# 'emacs',
# 'friendly_grayscale',
# 'friendly',
# 'fruity',
# 'github-dark',
# 'gruvbox-dark',
# 'gruvbox-light',
# 'igor',
# 'inkpot',
# 'lightbulb',
# 'lilypond',
# 'lovelace',
# 'manni',
# 'material',
# 'monokai',
# 'murphy',
# 'native',
# 'nord-darker',
# 'nord',
# 'one-dark',
# 'paraiso-dark',
# 'paraiso-light',
# 'pastie',
# 'perldoc',
# 'rainbow_dash',
# 'rrt',
# 'sas',
# 'solarized-dark',
# 'solarized-light',
# 'staroffice',
# 'stata-dark',
# 'stata-light',
# 'stata',
# 'tango',
# 'trac',
# 'vim',
# 'vs',
# 'xcode',
# 'zenburn'
# ]
```
```
from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
from pygments.styles import get_style_by_name
style = get_style_by_name("monokai")
formatter = HtmlFormatter(style=style)
print(formatter.get_style_defs('.highlight'))
```
And now you get styles that you can add to your css and be any theme from the list above.
```
pre { line-height: 125%; }
td.linenos .normal { color: inherit; background-color: transparent; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
span.linenos { color: inherit; background-color: transparent; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
td.linenos .special { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffc0; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
span.linenos.special { color: #000000; background-color: #ffffc0; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; }
.highlight .hll { background-color: #49483e }
.highlight { background: #272822; color: #f8f8f2 }
.highlight .c { color: #959077 } /* Comment */
.highlight .err { color: #ed007e; background-color: #1e0010 } /* Error */
.highlight .esc { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Escape */
.highlight .g { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Generic */
.highlight .k { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword */
.highlight .l { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal */
.highlight .n { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name */
.highlight .o { color: #ff4689 } /* Operator */
.highlight .x { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Other */
.highlight .p { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Punctuation */
.highlight .ch { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Hashbang */
.highlight .cm { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Multiline */
.highlight .cp { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Preproc */
.highlight .cpf { color: #959077 } /* Comment.PreprocFile */
.highlight .c1 { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Single */
.highlight .cs { color: #959077 } /* Comment.Special */
.highlight .gd { color: #ff4689 } /* Generic.Deleted */
.highlight .ge { color: #f8f8f2; font-style: italic } /* Generic.Emph */
.highlight .ges { color: #f8f8f2; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic } /* Generic.EmphStrong */
.highlight .gr { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Generic.Error */
.highlight .gh { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Generic.Heading */
.highlight .gi { color: #a6e22e } /* Generic.Inserted */
.highlight .go { color: #66d9ef } /* Generic.Output */
.highlight .gp { color: #ff4689; font-weight: bold } /* Generic.Prompt */
.highlight .gs { color: #f8f8f2; font-weight: bold } /* Generic.Strong */
.highlight .gu { color: #959077 } /* Generic.Subheading */
.highlight .gt { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Generic.Traceback */
.highlight .kc { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword.Constant */
.highlight .kd { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword.Declaration */
.highlight .kn { color: #ff4689 } /* Keyword.Namespace */
.highlight .kp { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword.Pseudo */
.highlight .kr { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword.Reserved */
.highlight .kt { color: #66d9ef } /* Keyword.Type */
.highlight .ld { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.Date */
.highlight .m { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number */
.highlight .s { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String */
.highlight .na { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Attribute */
.highlight .nb { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Builtin */
.highlight .nc { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Class */
.highlight .no { color: #66d9ef } /* Name.Constant */
.highlight .nd { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Decorator */
.highlight .ni { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Entity */
.highlight .ne { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Exception */
.highlight .nf { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Function */
.highlight .nl { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Label */
.highlight .nn { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Namespace */
.highlight .nx { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Other */
.highlight .py { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Property */
.highlight .nt { color: #ff4689 } /* Name.Tag */
.highlight .nv { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Variable */
.highlight .ow { color: #ff4689 } /* Operator.Word */
.highlight .pm { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Punctuation.Marker */
.highlight .w { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Text.Whitespace */
.highlight .mb { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Bin */
.highlight .mf { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Float */
.highlight .mh { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Hex */
.highlight .mi { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Integer */
.highlight .mo { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Oct */
.highlight .sa { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Affix */
.highlight .sb { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Backtick */
.highlight .sc { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Char */
.highlight .dl { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Delimiter */
.highlight .sd { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Doc */
.highlight .s2 { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Double */
.highlight .se { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.String.Escape */
.highlight .sh { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Heredoc */
.highlight .si { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Interpol */
.highlight .sx { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Other */
.highlight .sr { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Regex */
.highlight .s1 { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Single */
.highlight .ss { color: #e6db74 } /* Literal.String.Symbol */
.highlight .bp { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Builtin.Pseudo */
.highlight .fm { color: #a6e22e } /* Name.Function.Magic */
.highlight .vc { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Variable.Class */
.highlight .vg { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Variable.Global */
.highlight .vi { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Variable.Instance */
.highlight .vm { color: #f8f8f2 } /* Name.Variable.Magic */
.highlight .il { color: #ae81ff } /* Literal.Number.Integer.Long */
```