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What it styles

Built on top of MarkEdit-theming, the Slatewave theme tunes MarkEdit's editor chrome and markdown syntax without depending on any upstream CodeMirror theme. It ships both dark and light variants.

• Headings — teal #5eead4
• Bold / italic — sky #38bdf8 for bold, purple #b388ff for italic
• Links — sky #38bdf8
• Inline code & fenced blocks — pale-teal identifiers, sky keywords, teal strings, rose numerics, amber macros/decorators
• Comments / quotes — slate #64748b / #94a3b8
• Caret & selection — teal #5eead4 with a soft 25% tint behind selections
• Active line — subtle slate wash
• Gutter — muted slate, no border

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Installation

Manual (recommended)

Download dist/markedit-theme-slatewave.js and drop it into MarkEdit's scripts folder:

cp dist/markedit-theme-slatewave.js \
  ~/Library/Containers/app.cyan.markedit/Data/Documents/scripts/

Relaunch MarkEdit. The theme activates automatically and follows your system light/dark setting.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/markedit-slatewave
cd markedit-slatewave
yarn install
yarn build   # builds and auto-deploys into MarkEdit's scripts folder
yarn reload  # quits and relaunches MarkEdit

Uninstall

yarn uninstall

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Settings

In MarkEdit's settings.json you can scope the theme to a single mode:

{
  "extension.markeditThemeSlatewave": {
    "enabledMode": "both"
  }
}

• enabledMode: both (default), light, dark, or none to disable.

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Palette

Slatewave shares its palette with the companion VSCode, Obsidian, and oh-my-posh themes.

	Hex	Tailwind	Role
	#282c34	—	editor background
	#1e293b	slate-800	active line, fold placeholders
	#334155	slate-700	dividers, visible-space guides
	#64748b	slate-500	comments, gutter text
	#e2e8f0	slate-200	body text
	#5eead4	teal-300	primary accent — headings, caret, strings
	#99f6e4	teal-200	types, classes
	#7dd3fc	sky-300	labels
	#38bdf8	sky-400	bold, links, keywords
	#b388ff	—	italic, meta, processing instructions
	#fb7185	rose-400	numbers, constants, atoms
	#fbbf24	amber-400	macros, regex, escapes

Full scale and Tailwind names at getslatewave.com/colors.

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Customize

MarkEdit-theming resolves colors in a cascade — values in MarkEdit's settings.json override the theme's defaults. To tweak anything without forking, set it in settings.json:

{
  "extension.markeditThemeSlatewave": {
    "enabledMode": "dark"
  }
}

For deeper customization, fork this repo, edit main.ts, and rebuild.

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Slatewave family

One palette. Every tool.

• Editors — VSCode · JetBrains · Xcode · Sublime Text · Zed · Neovim · Helix
• Terminals — Alacritty · Ghostty · iTerm2 · WezTerm · Windows Terminal · Kitty
• Prompts — Oh My Posh · Powerlevel10k · Starship
• Multiplexer — tmux
• CLI — bat · delta · LSD · btop
• Notes — Obsidian · Logseq · 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 document so the visual tradeoff is obvious.

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License

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