Work · 2026
kpop-theme
A dark Spicetify theme for Spotify with neon accents, frosted glass and no Spotify green.
At a glance
- Holographic glass on sidebars, top bar, cards and tooltips
- Playbar without backdrop-filter, so nothing flickers
- Three neon accents instead of Spotify green, play button included
- Colour palette in one place in color.ini, used as --spice variables
Why
The Spotify client looks the same on every machine, and the settings offer no way to change the colours. Spicetify pushes your own CSS into the desktop client, and that makes the whole interface replaceable.
This theme goes for dark holographic glass and three neon accents: Electric Lilac #C9A6FF,
Holographic Pink #FF4FD8 and Cyber Cyan #6BE7FF. Plus a typeface of its own, Space Grotesk
for body text and Syne for headings.
The playbar without blur
Sidebars, top bar, cards and tooltips all sit on a backdrop-filter blur. The playbar at the
bottom deliberately does not.
backdrop-filter forces the compositor to repaint the region behind the element on every
change. The playbar carries a progress bar that moves once a second. Together they produce
visible flicker across the whole strip.
The playbar therefore gets an opaque gradient that comes close to the glass optically and triggers no repaint. From normal viewing distance the difference is barely noticeable.
Changing the colours
The colours are declared exactly once, in color.ini, and used as --spice-* variables. A
different palette only takes the [Base] section, with no CSS to touch. Everything else that
is theme-specific (glass opacity, blur radius, glow strength, corner radius, fonts) lives in
custom properties at the top of user.css.
Installation
git clone https://github.com/Chrisss666/kpop-theme.git \
"$(spicetify -c | xargs dirname)/Themes/kpop-theme"
spicetify config current_theme kpop-theme
spicetify apply