Emerald Synth

A synthwave-inspired dark color theme with deep purple backgrounds and emerald-green foreground text.

Palette

Role	Color	Hex
Background		#0d0221
Foreground		#00ffcc
Accent		#ff79c6
Error		#ff2a6d
Warning		#ffcc66

Full palette definition: palette.toml

Supported Tools

Ghostty

Terminal theme with ANSI 16 colors, cursor/selection, search highlighting, and split-divider.

Install:

ln -s /path/to/emerald-synth/ghostty/emerald-synth ~/.config/ghostty/themes/emerald-synth

Then add theme = emerald-synth to ~/.config/ghostty/config.

Zellij

Terminal multiplexer theme (KDL format, new component-based spec).

Install:

cp zellij/emerald-synth.kdl ~/.config/zellij/themes/

Then add theme "emerald-synth" to ~/.config/zellij/config.kdl.

Zed

Editor theme with full UI styling, syntax highlighting, and terminal ANSI colors (normal/bright/dim).

Install:

ln -s /path/to/emerald-synth/zed/emerald-synth.json ~/.config/zed/themes/emerald-synth.json

Then select "Emerald Synth" in Zed: Cmd+K Cmd+T.

Vivaldi

Browser theme with radial glow background. See vivaldi/README.md for details.

Install: Settings > Themes > Import theme (zip vivaldi/theme/settings.json + vivaldi/theme/background.png)

Slack

Custom theme colors. See slack/theme.txt.

Install: Settings > Appearance > Custom theme

Obsidian

Community theme with Foundation base colors, semantic styling, heading gradient, syntax highlighting, callouts, and graph colors.

Install:

# Symlink into vault
mkdir -p /path/to/vault/.obsidian/themes/Emerald\ Synth
ln -s /path/to/emerald-synth/obsidian/theme.css /path/to/vault/.obsidian/themes/Emerald\ Synth/theme.css
ln -s /path/to/emerald-synth/obsidian/manifest.json /path/to/vault/.obsidian/themes/Emerald\ Synth/manifest.json

Then select "Emerald Synth" in Obsidian: Settings > Appearance > Themes.

Neovim

Lua colorscheme with editor UI, syntax, TreeSitter, LSP diagnostics, and plugin integrations (Telescope, Gitsigns).

Install (lazy.nvim):

{
  "malleroid/emerald-synth.nvim",
  lazy = false,
  priority = 1000,
  config = function()
    require("emerald-synth").setup({})
    vim.cmd.colorscheme("emerald-synth")
  end,
}

Install (local dev):

nvim --cmd "set rtp^=/path/to/emerald-synth/nvim" -c "colorscheme emerald-synth"

License

MIT