Purpura
“purple”
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Velvet curtains at the edges of a dark violet stage, with bright glints in the folds.
If you like Dracula or Shades of Purple, you will feel at home here.
Purple velvet curtains framing a dark stage with soft pink and cyan light in the corners. Held still, as it is while you read.
The plate
A theatre after the doors close. By night a blue violet page is framed by plum velvet curtains down both sides, a swagged valance across the top, and soft stage light glowing pink and cyan in the low corners. By day the same stage is pale lilac with orchid velvet. While Claude works the curtains sway a little on their rods, light ripples across the folds and small glints pulse in purple, pink, cyan, green and orange.
While Claude works
The spinner takes one of these words in place of “Working”. When the app names the step it is on, that name stays.
- Raising the curtain
- Taking the stage
- Rehearsing
- Waiting in the wings
- Setting the scene
- Dimming the house
After a turn of 20 seconds or more, Purpura plays a soft chime under a second and a half long.
With /tessera music, a quiet loop of its own plays while Claude works and stops when the answer is ready. It is off until you ask for it.
Palette
Light
- Page
#f2edfd - Card
#f6f3ff - Panel
#faf8ff - Text
#292344 - Secondary
#474266 - Muted
#605b80
Dark
- Page
#212033 - Card
#262539 - Panel
#2a2a3e - Menu
#2f2f44 - Text
#e4e3f1 - Secondary
#c6c4da - Muted
#aaa7c3
Roles
- Accent
#b167f7 - Danger
#f84b7c - Success
#40d868 - Warning
#fb8d41 - Pro
#2ad5e5
Measured
Standard contrast. Body text is held at 9:1 to 14:1. Here it measures 12.9:1 in light and 12.6:1 in dark. Vivid accents.
| Reading | Light | Dark |
|---|---|---|
| Body text on the page | 12.9:1 | 12.6:1 |
| Muted text on the page | 5.5:1 | 6.8:1 |
| Page lightness | 95% | 25% |
| Glass | 68%, 20 pt blur | 68%, 20 pt blur |
Contrast is the WCAG ratio. Muted text is held at 4.5:1 or better. Lightness is OKLCH, where 0% is black and 100% is white.
Install
Hang Purpura
-
1 In the desktop app
Click + next to the prompt box and choose Plugins. Add the marketplace btahir/tessera, then add the tessera plugin.
btahir/tessera -
2 In a terminal session
Paste this at the prompt.
/plugin install tessera --marketplace btahir/tessera -
3 Ask Claude
Send this sentence in any session.
Install the tessera plugin from the btahir/tessera marketplace on GitHub.
Then
The tessera plugin holds all twenty-five plates.
Type /tessera purpura to hang Purpura.
/tessera still stops the motion. Sound has three levels: /tessera quiet is silence,
/tessera sound is a chime after long turns (the default), and /tessera music adds the room's own
quiet loop while Claude works. Your choices are kept across sessions.
Only Purpura
Each plate also installs by its own name, and its commands use that name, such as /purpura still or /purpura music.
/plugin install purpura --marketplace btahir/tessera Where it shows
Themes appear in the Claude Code desktop and mobile apps. The terminal keeps its own colors. The chime plays on macOS only.