🌲 Everforest for CotEditor

Everforest is a green-based color scheme; it's designed to be warm and soft in order to protect developers' eyes.

6 themes for CotEditor based on the Everforest color scheme by sainnhe.

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Dark

Hard	Medium	Soft

Light

Hard	Medium	Soft

Screenshots use Meslo LG Nerd Font.

Sample code used in screenshots

# Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch — Staff Management System

BRANCH = "Scranton"
MAX_CHAOS_LEVEL = 10
PRETZEL_DAY = True


class Employee:

    def __init__(self, name: str, title: str, chaos: int = 0):
        self.name = name
        self.title = title
        self.chaos_level = chaos
        self.is_regional_manager = False

    def declare_bankruptcy(self) -> None:
        print(f"{self.name}: I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!")

    def chaos(self) -> bool:
        return self.chaos_level >= MAX_CHAOS_LEVEL


class RegionalManager(Employee):

    CATCHPHRASE = "That's what she said."

    def __init__(self, name: str):
        super().__init__(name, "Regional Manager", chaos=9)
        self.is_regional_manager = True
        self.clients_scared_off: int = 0

    def motivate(self, staff: list[Employee]) -> str:
        for employee in staff:
            employee.chaos_level += 1
        return self.CATCHPHRASE


def pretzel_day_capacity(employees: list[Employee]) -> int:
    # Pretzel Day always exceeds normal branch capacity
    return len(employees) * 3


staff = [
    RegionalManager("Michael Scott"),
    Employee("Dwight Schrute", "Assistant (to the) Regional Manager", chaos=7),
    Employee("Jim Halpert", "Sales Representative", chaos=3),
    Employee("Pam Beesly", "Receptionist", chaos=1),
    Employee("Kevin Malone", "Accountant", chaos=5),
]

if PRETZEL_DAY:
    capacity = pretzel_day_capacity(staff)
    print(f"Scranton capacity today: {capacity}")

Variants

Hard/Medium/Soft differ only in background contrast — Hard is darkest/lightest (highest contrast), Soft is closest to mid-tone (lowest contrast).

Theme	Background
Dark Hard	#272E33
Dark Medium	#2D353B
Dark Soft	#333C43
Light Hard	#FFFBEF
Light Medium	#FDF6E3
Light Soft	#F3EAD3

Installation

Via Terminal

Mac App Store:

git clone --depth=1 --no-tags https://github.com/vasylromanets/everforest-coteditor /tmp/everforest-coteditor
cp /tmp/everforest-coteditor/themes/*.cottheme ~/Library/Containers/com.coteditor.CotEditor/Data/Library/Application\ Support/CotEditor/Themes/
rm -rf /tmp/everforest-coteditor

Direct download / Homebrew:

git clone --depth=1 --no-tags https://github.com/vasylromanets/everforest-coteditor /tmp/everforest-coteditor
cp /tmp/everforest-coteditor/themes/*.cottheme ~/Library/Application\ Support/CotEditor/Themes/
rm -rf /tmp/everforest-coteditor

Via Finder

Copy the .cottheme files into:

Mac App Store: ~/Library/Containers/com.coteditor.CotEditor/Data/Library/Application Support/CotEditor/Themes

Direct download / Homebrew: ~/Library/Application Support/CotEditor/Themes

~/Library is hidden by default. Open it in Finder via Go → Go to Folder (⇧⌘G) and paste the path.

Via CotEditor

1. Download the .cottheme files from the themes/ folder.
2. Open CotEditor → Settings → Appearance.
3. Drag the downloaded files into the theme list.

License

MIT