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What it styles

Slatewave for Alacritty ships as two files. Pick one:

• slatewave.toml — palette only. Colors, cursor tint, selection, search, hints, footer. Composes with whatever font, window, and cursor-shape settings you already have.
• slatewave-full.toml — palette + opinionated typography. Imports slatewave.toml, then adds Hack Nerd Font Mono at 14pt, a non-blinking block cursor, and a fully opaque, unblurred window. Use this if you want the whole Slatewave house style in one import.

The palette itself is tuned against Alacritty's full color schema — not just the 16 ANSI colors. 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
• Vi-mode cursor — teal-200 #99f6e4, distinguishable from the regular cursor at a glance
• Selection — slate-700 #334155 with slate-200 text, for a calm, non-competing highlight
• Search — sky #38bdf8 for unfocused matches, teal #5eead4 for the focused match (mirrors VSCode's findMatchHighlight / findMatch split)
• Hints — amber #fcd34d leader on amber-500 #f59e0b tail, for ⌘-click-replacement keyboard hints
• Footer bar — chrome #21252b background matching the VSCode activity bar

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Installation

Palette only (slatewave.toml)

Alacritty 0.13+ reads TOML config and supports importing theme files. The recommended layout is ~/.config/alacritty/themes/ for user-managed themes.

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

Then reference it from your ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml:

[general]
import = ["~/.config/alacritty/themes/slatewave.toml"]

Alacritty watches its config file and applies theme changes live — no restart needed.

Palette + typography (slatewave-full.toml)

The full bundle assumes slatewave.toml is installed at the standard path above, then imports it and adds font / cursor / window defaults. Requires Hack Nerd Font — specifically the Mono variant, so Nerd icons stay single-cell in lazygit, btop, and ls.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/alacritty-slatewave/main/slatewave-full.toml \
  -o ~/.config/alacritty/themes/slatewave-full.toml

Then in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml:

[general]
import = ["~/.config/alacritty/themes/slatewave-full.toml"]

From a local clone

git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/alacritty-slatewave
cp alacritty-slatewave/slatewave.toml      ~/.config/alacritty/themes/
cp alacritty-slatewave/slatewave-full.toml ~/.config/alacritty/themes/  # optional

Inline

If you'd rather not manage a separate theme file, paste the contents of slatewave.toml directly into your ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml — the [colors.*] tables work at the top level of the main config too.

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Palette

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

	Hex	Tailwind	Role
	#282c34	—	background
	#21252b	—	footer bar
	#334155	slate-700	selection background
	#1e293b	slate-800	ANSI 0 (black)
	#e2e8f0	slate-200	foreground, ANSI 7 (white)
	#5eead4	teal-300	cursor, focused search, ANSI 2 (green)
	#99f6e4	teal-200	vi-mode cursor, ANSI 10 (bright green)
	#7dd3fc	sky-300	ANSI 12 (bright blue)
	#38bdf8	sky-400	search matches, ANSI 4 (blue)
	#b388ff	—	ANSI 5 (magenta)
	#fb7185	rose-400	ANSI 1 (red)
	#f59e0b	amber-500	hint tail, ANSI 3 (yellow)
	#fcd34d	amber-300	hint leader, 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	#f59e0b amber-500	#fcd34d amber-300
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 Alacritty config fragment — every entry is a TOML table. To override a single color without forking, put the override after the import line in ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml:

[general]
import = ["~/.config/alacritty/themes/slatewave.toml"]

# Override just the cursor
[colors.cursor]
cursor = "#99f6e4"
text   = "#282c34"

Later values win in Alacritty's merge order, so the override takes effect without editing the theme file itself.

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Slatewave family

One palette. Every tool.

• Editors — VSCode · JetBrains · Xcode · Sublime Text · Zed · Neovim · NvChad · Helix
• Terminals — Ghostty · iTerm2 · kitty · Warp · WezTerm · Windows Terminal
• Prompts — Oh My Posh · Powerlevel10k · Starship
• Multiplexer — tmux
• CLI — bat · delta · LSD · btop
• Notes — Obsidian · Logseq · MarkEdit · Anytype
• Launchers — Alfred · Raycast
• Chat — Slack

See getslatewave.com for the full family.

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.