Let us take a look at these color schemes we already have installed BUT not applied. Atom is installed and the package pigments is activated. Explained in previous article.
We show what to copy/paste where to get a different color schemes.
First make a backup of your config file then copy/paste. Reload the i3 config with the keyboard shortcut.
Gpick is the application to find out the hexadecimal codes of colors or go online.
i3 is distro independent.
Keyboard Shortcuts To Remember
SupER + SHIFT + R
RELOAD CONFIG