diff --git a/src/config.zig b/src/config.zig
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+const std = @import("std");
+const builtin = @import("builtin");
+const ascii = @import("ascii.zig");
+
+pub const Module = struct {
+    type: []u8,
+    key: []u8,
+    key_color: []u8,
+};
+
+pub const Config = struct {
+    modules: []Module,
+};
+
+pub const ModuleType = enum {
+    os,
+    kernel,
+    uptime,
+    packages,
+    shell,
+    cpu,
+    gpu,
+    ram,
+    swap,
+    disk,
+    terminal,
+    locale,
+    net,
+};
+
+pub fn getModulesTypes(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, config: ?std.json.Parsed(Config)) !std.ArrayList(ModuleType) {
+    var modules_list = std.ArrayList(ModuleType).init(allocator);
+
+    if (config) |c| {
+        for (c.value.modules) |module| {
+            const module_enum = std.meta.stringToEnum(ModuleType, module.type);
+            if (module_enum) |m| {
+                try modules_list.append(m);
+            } else {
+                return error.InvalidModule;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    return modules_list;
+}
+
+pub fn readConfigFile(allocator: std.mem.Allocator) !?std.json.Parsed(Config) {
+    const home = try std.process.getEnvVarOwned(allocator, "HOME");
+    defer allocator.free(home);
+
+    const config_abs_path = try std.mem.concat(allocator, u8, &.{ home, "/.config/zigfetch/config.json" });
+    defer allocator.free(config_abs_path);
+
+    const file = std.fs.openFileAbsolute(config_abs_path, .{ .mode = .read_only }) catch |err| switch (err) {
+        error.FileNotFound => return null,
+        else => return err,
+    };
+    defer file.close();
+
+    const data = try file.readToEndAlloc(allocator, std.math.maxInt(usize));
+    defer allocator.free(data);
+
+    return try std.json.parseFromSlice(Config, allocator, data, .{ .allocate = .alloc_always });
+}