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What it styles

Slatewave for Windows Terminal ships as two files. Pick one:

• slatewave.json — color scheme only. A single scheme object you paste into the schemes array in settings.json. Composes with whatever profile, font, and window settings you already have.
• slatewave-full.json — color scheme + window chrome theme. Adds a matching theme block that tints the tab strip to slate chrome (#21252b) and the unfocused strip to slate-800 (#1e293b), mirroring the VSCode activity bar and the wezterm tab bar.

The scheme is tuned against Windows Terminal'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, the shared Slatewave accent
• Selection — slate-700 #334155, for a calm, non-competing highlight

The full bundle additionally styles:

• Tab strip — slate chrome #21252b when focused, slate-800 #1e293b when unfocused
• Active tab — inherits the terminal background so the active tab reads as an extension of the editor surface
• Inactive tab — slate chrome, matching the strip
• Window — forces the dark Application theme and disables Mica so the chrome stays consistent across Windows 10 and Windows 11

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Installation

Windows Terminal stores its config in settings.json. The quickest way to open it:

1. Open Windows Terminal.
2. Click the ▾ dropdown on the tab bar → Settings.
3. In the Settings page, click Open JSON file in the bottom-left.

The file lives at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json on stable and ...WindowsTerminalPreview_... on preview.

Color scheme only (slatewave.json)

Paste the object from slatewave.json into the schemes array in settings.json:

{
    "schemes": [
        // ...your existing schemes...
        {
            "name": "Slatewave",
            "background": "#282c34",
            "foreground": "#e2e8f0",
            // ...rest of slatewave.json...
        }
    ]
}

Then reference it from a profile — either globally under profiles.defaults or on a single profile:

{
    "profiles": {
        "defaults": {
            "colorScheme": "Slatewave"
        }
    }
}

Save the file. Windows Terminal picks up scheme changes live — no restart needed.

Scheme + chrome (slatewave-full.json)

The full bundle contains both a schemes entry and a themes entry. Merge each into the matching array at the top level of settings.json:

{
    "schemes": [ /* ...paste the schemes[0] object here... */ ],
    "themes":  [ /* ...paste the themes[0]  object here... */ ]
}

Then reference both at the top level:

{
    "theme": "Slatewave",
    "profiles": {
        "defaults": {
            "colorScheme": "Slatewave"
        }
    }
}

theme styles the window chrome (tab strip, tab backgrounds, application theme); colorScheme styles the terminal contents. They are independent — you can mix and match if you prefer a different chrome.

From a local clone

git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/windows-terminal-slatewave

Then open slatewave.json or slatewave-full.json and copy its contents into your settings.json as shown above.

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Palette

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

	Hex	Tailwind	Role
	#282c34	—	background
	#21252b	—	tab strip
	#1e293b	slate-800	unfocused tab strip, ANSI 0 (black)
	#334155	slate-700	selection background
	#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 (purple)
	#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. Windows Terminal calls ANSI 5 purple rather than magenta — the value is the same.

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
Purple	#b388ff	#c4b5fd violet-300
Cyan	#0e7490 cyan-700	#67e8f9 cyan-300
White	#e2e8f0 slate-200	#f1f5f9 slate-100

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Customize

The scheme file is a plain Windows Terminal JSON fragment. To override a single color without forking, edit the scheme object in your settings.json directly — Windows Terminal will reload the change live. Example, swapping the cursor to teal-200:

{
    "name": "Slatewave",
    "cursorColor": "#99f6e4"
    // ...rest unchanged...
}

To keep the Slatewave chrome but pair it with a different scheme (or vice versa), the theme and colorScheme settings are independent — change either on its own.

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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 · Warp · WezTerm
• 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.