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What it styles

Slatewave for iTerm2 is a single .itermcolors preset tuned against iTerm2's full semantic slot set — 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
• Cursor — teal #5eead4 with slate-900 text, so the box-cursor stays legible on any background
• Selection — teal #5eead4 at 25% alpha, matching VSCode's terminal.selectionBackground
• Link — sky #38bdf8 for ⌘-click URL detection
• Badge — teal #5eead4 at 50% alpha (for hostname / session badges)
• Tab — chrome #21252b, matching the VSCode activity bar
• Cursor guide — teal at 15% alpha (enable in Profile → Text)
• Match background — sky at 35% alpha, matching VSCode's find highlight
• Underline — teal, for OSC 8 hyperlinks and misspellings

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Installation

Import the preset

1. Download slatewave.itermcolors.
2. In iTerm2, open Settings → Profiles → Colors.
3. Click Color Presets… → Import… and choose the downloaded file.
4. Click Color Presets… again and select slatewave.

From a local clone

git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/iterm2-slatewave
open iterm2-slatewave/slatewave.itermcolors

Opening the file with iTerm2 running will offer to import it directly.

Recommended profile settings

For the cleanest match with the companion themes:

• Text → Cursor — Box, enable Blinking cursor off
• Text → Anti-aliased — on
• Text → Use bold font — on, Use bright colors for bold — off (so Bold Color drives bold text)
• Text → Use built-in Powerline glyphs — on (for the oh-my-posh prompt segments)
• Window → Transparency — 0, Blur — off (slate is the intended background)
• Terminal → Report Terminal Type — xterm-256color

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Palette

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

	Hex	Tailwind	Role
	#282c34	—	background
	#21252b	—	tab color
	#1e293b	slate-800	ANSI 0 (black)
	#e2e8f0	slate-200	foreground, ANSI 7 (white)
	#5eead4	teal-300	cursor, selection, badge, underline, ANSI 2 (green)
	#99f6e4	teal-200	ANSI 10 (bright green)
	#7dd3fc	sky-300	ANSI 12 (bright blue)
	#38bdf8	sky-400	link, ANSI 4 (blue)
	#b388ff	—	ANSI 5 (magenta)
	#fb7185	rose-400	ANSI 1 (red)
	#f59e0b	amber-500	ANSI 3 (yellow)
	#fcd34d	amber-300	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

.itermcolors is just a plist. To override a single color without forking, edit your profile in Settings → Profiles → Colors after importing — changes take effect immediately and live in iTerm2's own com.googlecode.iterm2.plist, not in this file.

To fork the preset itself: open slatewave.itermcolors in any text editor. Each color is an sRGB dict with Red Component / Green Component / Blue Component / Alpha Component as floats 0–1.

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Slatewave family

One palette. Every tool.

• Editors — VSCode · JetBrains · Xcode · Sublime Text · Zed · Neovim · NvChad · Helix
• Terminals — Alacritty · Ghostty · 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.