https://github.com/fitrh colorful tags dwm patch tidied up to reduce patch conflicts. Colorful title and toggling were removed.

dwm-colorfultags-6.3.diff

From 98e95cd6c50ea123b5504f52f449495a5d768a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: slightly-seasoned <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 16:07:41 -0230
Subject: [PATCH] Colorful tags patch.

---
 config.def.h | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 dwm.c        | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index a2ac963..54a12c4 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 /* See LICENSE file for copyright and license details. */
 
 /* appearance */
-static const unsigned int borderpx  = 1;        /* border pixel of windows */
-static const unsigned int snap      = 32;       /* snap pixel */
-static const int showbar            = 1;        /* 0 means no bar */
-static const int topbar             = 1;        /* 0 means bottom bar */
+static const unsigned int borderpx    = 1;        /* border pixel of windows */
+static const unsigned int snap        = 32;       /* snap pixel */
+static const int showbar              = 1;        /* 0 means no bar */
+static const int topbar               = 1;        /* 0 means bottom bar */
+static const unsigned int colorfultag = 1;        /* 0 means use SchemeSel for
+                                                     selected tag */
 static const char *fonts[]          = { "monospace:size=10" };
 static const char dmenufont[]       = "monospace:size=10";
 static const char col_gray1[]       = "#222222";
@@ -16,10 +18,25 @@ static const char *colors[][3]      = {
 	/*               fg         bg         border   */
 	[SchemeNorm] = { col_gray3, col_gray1, col_gray2 },
 	[SchemeSel]  = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  col_cyan  },
+
+    [SchemeTag]  = { col_gray3, col_gray1, NULL }, /* Inactive tag. */
+    [SchemeTag1] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag2] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag3] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag4] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag5] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag6] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag7] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag8] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    [SchemeTag9] = { col_gray4, col_cyan,  NULL },
+    /* And so forth... */
 };
 
 /* tagging */
-static const char *tags[] = { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" };
+static const char *tags[]      = { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9" };
+static const int  tagschemes[] = { SchemeTag1, SchemeTag2, SchemeTag3,
+                                   SchemeTag4, SchemeTag5, SchemeTag6,
+                                   SchemeTag7, SchemeTag8, SchemeTag9 };
 
 static const Rule rules[] = {
 	/* xprop(1):
diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
index 5646a5c..c21b11e 100644
--- a/dwm.c
+++ b/dwm.c
@@ -59,7 +59,10 @@
 
 /* enums */
 enum { CurNormal, CurResize, CurMove, CurLast }; /* cursor */
-enum { SchemeNorm, SchemeSel }; /* color schemes */
+enum { SchemeNorm, SchemeSel,  SchemeTag,
+       SchemeTag1, SchemeTag2, SchemeTag3,
+       SchemeTag4, SchemeTag5, SchemeTag6,
+       SchemeTag7, SchemeTag8, SchemeTag9 }; /* color schemes */
 enum { NetSupported, NetWMName, NetWMState, NetWMCheck,
        NetWMFullscreen, NetActiveWindow, NetWMWindowType,
        NetWMWindowTypeDialog, NetClientList, NetLast }; /* EWMH atoms */
@@ -122,6 +125,7 @@ struct Monitor {
 	unsigned int seltags;
 	unsigned int sellt;
 	unsigned int tagset[2];
+	unsigned int colorfultag;
 	int showbar;
 	int topbar;
 	Client *clients;
@@ -642,6 +646,7 @@ createmon(void)
 	m->nmaster = nmaster;
 	m->showbar = showbar;
 	m->topbar = topbar;
+   m->colorfultag = colorfultag ? colorfultag : 0;
 	m->lt[0] = &layouts[0];
 	m->lt[1] = &layouts[1 % LENGTH(layouts)];
 	strncpy(m->ltsymbol, layouts[0].symbol, sizeof m->ltsymbol);
@@ -723,7 +728,14 @@ drawbar(Monitor *m)
 	x = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < LENGTH(tags); i++) {
 		w = TEXTW(tags[i]);
-		drw_setscheme(drw, scheme[m->tagset[m->seltags] & 1 << i ? SchemeSel : SchemeNorm]);
+       drw_setscheme(
+           drw,
+           scheme[
+               m->tagset[m->seltags] & 1 << i
+               ? (m->colorfultag ? tagschemes[i] : SchemeSel)
+               : SchemeTag
+           ]
+       );
 		drw_text(drw, x, 0, w, bh, lrpad / 2, tags[i], urg & 1 << i);
 		if (occ & 1 << i)
 			drw_rect(drw, x + boxs, boxs, boxw, boxw,
-- 
2.36.1