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What it styles

Slatewave for Warp ships as a single file: slatewave.yaml. Warp's theme schema is deliberately small — you give it a background, a foreground, an accent, a cursor, and the 16 ANSI slots, and Warp derives the rest of its chrome from those.

• ANSI 0–15 — mirrored from the VSCode Slatewave terminal block so ls --color, git diff, and 256-color TUIs read identically across your editor and terminal
• Background — slate #282c34, matching the VSCode editor background
• Foreground — slate-200 #e2e8f0, matching the VSCode editor foreground
• Accent — teal-300 #5eead4, which Warp uses for selected blocks, command-search highlights, and the active tab underline
• Cursor — teal-300 #5eead4, the same signature color the rest of the family uses
• Details — darker, so Warp derives its input box, block borders, and tab bar by darkening the slate background instead of lightening it

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Installation

With the Slatewave CLI (recommended)

brew tap kevinlangleyjr/slatewave
brew install slatewave
slatewave install warp

Clones this repo into Warp's themes directory (~/.warp/themes/slatewave on macOS, ~/.local/share/warp-terminal/themes/slatewave on Linux) and prints the two clicks needed to select it. To remove cleanly: slatewave uninstall warp.

Manual — macOS

mkdir -p ~/.warp/themes
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/warp-slatewave/main/slatewave.yaml \
  -o ~/.warp/themes/slatewave.yaml

Manual — Linux

mkdir -p "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/warp-terminal/themes"
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/warp-slatewave/main/slatewave.yaml \
  -o "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/warp-terminal/themes/slatewave.yaml"

Manual — Windows (PowerShell)

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path "$env:APPDATA\warp\Warp\data\themes"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/warp-slatewave/main/slatewave.yaml `
  -OutFile "$env:APPDATA\warp\Warp\data\themes\slatewave.yaml"

From a local clone

Warp scans the themes directory recursively, so cloning the whole repo into a subdirectory works — the README.md and LICENSE alongside it are ignored.

git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/warp-slatewave ~/.warp/themes/slatewave           # macOS
git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/warp-slatewave \
  "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/warp-terminal/themes/slatewave"                       # Linux

Activate

Warp watches its themes directory, so there's nothing to reload:

1. Open Settings → Appearance → Themes (or run Open Theme Picker from the command palette)
2. Pick Slatewave

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Palette

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

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

Warp's theme files are plain YAML — copy slatewave.yaml to a new name, change the name: field, and edit whatever you want. Both show up in the picker, so you can A/B them without losing the original:

cp ~/.warp/themes/slatewave.yaml ~/.warp/themes/slatewave-mine.yaml

name: Slatewave (mine)
cursor: '#99f6e4' # teal-200 instead of teal-300

Warp reloads the themes directory on change, so the edit shows up in the picker without a restart.

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Slatewave family

One palette. Every tool.

• Editors — VSCode · JetBrains · Xcode · Sublime Text · Zed · Neovim · NvChad · Helix
• Terminals — Alacritty · Ghostty · iTerm2 · kitty · 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.

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Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome. For palette changes, include a before/after screenshot of the same Warp 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.