Slatewave (Ghostty)

A Slatewave theme for Ghostty — slate foundation, teal signature. Part of the Slatewave family — one palette across editors, terminals, prompts, notes, and more.

Slate below, teal above.

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What it styles

Slatewave for Ghostty is a single theme file tuned against Ghostty's native color keys. It sets:

• ANSI 0–15 — mirrored from the VSCode Slatewave terminal block so ls --color, git diff, and 256-color TUIs all read identically across your editor and terminal
• Background — slate #282c34, matching the VSCode editor background
• Foreground — slate-200 #e2e8f0, matching the VSCode editor foreground
• Cursor — teal #5eead4 with slate-background text, so the block cursor stays legible
• Selection — slate-700 #334155 with slate-200 text, for a calm, non-competing highlight

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Installation

As a Ghostty theme

Ghostty loads user themes from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ghostty/themes/ (typically ~/.config/ghostty/themes/).

mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/ghostty-slatewave/main/Slatewave \
  -o ~/.config/ghostty/themes/Slatewave

Then add this line to ~/.config/ghostty/config:

theme = Slatewave

Reload with ⌘⇧, (macOS) or restart Ghostty.

From a local clone

git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/ghostty-slatewave
cp ghostty-slatewave/Slatewave ~/.config/ghostty/themes/Slatewave

Inline

If you'd rather not manage a separate theme file, paste the contents of Slatewave directly into your ~/.config/ghostty/config — the same keys work at the top level.

Recommended config

For the cleanest match with the companion themes:

theme = Slatewave

font-family = "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font"
font-size = 14

cursor-style = block
cursor-style-blink = false

background-opacity = 1.0
background-blur = false

# If you use the oh-my-posh prompt
shell-integration = detect

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Palette

Slatewave shares its palette with the companion themes. The anchor colors:

	Hex	Tailwind	Role
	#282c34	—	background
	#334155	slate-700	selection background
	#1e293b	slate-800	ANSI 0 (black)
	#e2e8f0	slate-200	foreground, ANSI 7 (white)
	#5eead4	teal-300	cursor, ANSI 2 (green)
	#99f6e4	teal-200	ANSI 10 (bright green)
	#7dd3fc	sky-300	ANSI 12 (bright blue)
	#38bdf8	sky-400	ANSI 4 (blue)
	#b388ff	—	ANSI 5 (magenta)
	#fb7185	rose-400	ANSI 1 (red)
	#fbbf24	amber-400	ANSI 11 (bright yellow)

ANSI mapping

Mirrors the terminal.ansi* block from vscode-slatewave so shell output is consistent across editor and terminal.

Slot	Normal	Bright
Black	#1e293b slate-800	#475569 slate-600
Red	#fb7185 rose-400	#ef5350
Green	#5eead4 teal-300	#99f6e4 teal-200
Yellow	#b45309 amber-700	#fbbf24 amber-400
Blue	#38bdf8 sky-400	#7dd3fc sky-300
Magenta	#b388ff	#c4b5fd violet-300
Cyan	#0e7490 cyan-700	#67e8f9 cyan-300
White	#e2e8f0 slate-200	#f1f5f9 slate-100

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Customize

The theme file is a plain Ghostty config fragment — every line is a key = value pair. To override a single color without forking, copy the relevant line into your ~/.config/ghostty/config after the theme = Slatewave line:

theme = Slatewave

# Override just the cursor
cursor-color = #99f6e4

Later keys win in Ghostty's config, so the override takes effect without editing the theme file itself.

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Slatewave family

One palette. Every tool.

• Editors — VSCode · Neovim · Helix · Zed · Sublime Text · JetBrains
• Terminals — Alacritty · iTerm2 · WezTerm · Windows Terminal
• Prompts — Oh My Posh · Starship
• Multiplexer — tmux
• Notes — Obsidian · Logseq
• Launchers — Alfred · Raycast
• Chat — Slack

See getslatewave.com for the full family.

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Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome. For palette changes, include a before/after screenshot of the same terminal session (ls --color, git diff, a TUI like lazygit or btop) so the visual tradeoff is obvious.

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License

WTFPL — Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License. See LICENSE.