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Living Code

Calm slate. Living color.

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Living Code

Calm slate. Living color.
A color scheme where the background stays quiet and the code comes alive.
For editors, terminals, browsers and the web.

teal #00a692 mint #52d7c1 aqua #9ae0dd steel #80b6d3 moss #8acb83 amber #f0be6d copper #e18c5f flare #e96560 orchid #bf91cd rose #ddaec3

Living Code ports GitHub stars 4 flavors MIT license

Website · All ports · Palette · Request a port

Flavors

Four flavors share one slate foundation and the same semantic roles, so a keyword, a string or an error looks the same in your editor, terminal and browser.

Living Code Night
#05080b #00a692 Night
The default. Dark slate, teal structure, green strings, amber warnings and copper numbers.
Living Code Frost
#0a1016 #43a997 Frost
A lifted, bluer slate with a third less chroma. Calmer for long sessions.
Living Code Paper
#f4f7f9 #187d6e Paper
Daylight. Near-white slate, with every syntax color kept at WCAG AA contrast.
Living Code Signal
#05080b #00a692 Signal
Night with a single accent. Teal marks keywords and focus; everything else stays slate.

Ports

Every port lives in its own repository, with installation steps and real screenshots of the app. Browse them with previews at living-code.dev/ports.

Editors 🦇 bat · delta (tmTheme)   🧬 Helix   🧠 JetBrains IDEs   🔬 micro   📝 Neovim   🌅 Sublime Text   💻 VS Code   ⚡ Zed
Terminals 🚀 Alacritty   🦶 foot   👻 Ghostty   🍎 iTerm2   🐈 Kitty   🖥️ Konsole   🏞️ Rio   🌀 Warp   🧵 WezTerm   🪟 Windows Terminal
CLI & TUI 📊 bottom   📊 btop   🔺 delta   📁 eza   🐟 fish   🔎 fzf   🌳 GitUI   🪵 Hunk   🐕 k9s   🐳 Lazydocker   🌿 lazygit   🐚 Nushell   📮 Posting   🚀 Starship   📺 Television   🧩 tmux   🦆 yazi   🧱 zellij
AI & Agents 🛠️ Aider   ✳️ Claude Code   🤖 Codex   💘 Crush   ♊ Gemini CLI   🐑 Herdr   🔓 OpenCode   π Pi
Browsers 🌐 Chrome, Brave and Chromium   🦊 Firefox
Apps 💎 Obsidian   💬 Slack
Web & code 🎨 CSS variables   📜 Expressive Code   🧾 JSON / JavaScript   🌬️ Tailwind CSS v4
Theme systems 🎛️ base16 · Stylix · tinted-theming

Missing your app? Request a port.

Design

  • The ground stays calm. Backgrounds, panels, selections and comments live on one slate ramp, so the eye goes to the code, not the chrome.
  • Cool for structure, warm for data. #00a692 Teal, aqua and steel mark keywords, functions and types; #8acb83 moss, #f0be6d amber and #e18c5f copper mark strings, numbers and warnings.
  • Built in OKLCH. Every color is defined in OKLCH, and every text color is checked for WCAG AA contrast against its flavor's background.

🦎 One chameleon, many habitats. MIT © Elliot Luque

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  1. core core Public

    🦎 Living Code 🦎

    JavaScript

  2. nvim nvim Public

    📝 Living Code theme for Neovim

    JavaScript

  3. jetbrains jetbrains Public

    🧠 Living Code for theme JetBrains IDEs

    JavaScript

  4. kitty kitty Public

    🐈 Living Code theme for Kitty

    JavaScript

  5. vscode vscode Public

    💻 Living Code theme for VS Code

    JavaScript

  6. ghostty ghostty Public

    👻 Living Code theme for Ghostty.

    JavaScript

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