# Codigrate > Codigrate builds premium IDE themes, color palettes, and free in-browser color tools for developers. Themes ship to JetBrains, VS Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Kiro, Chrome, Slack, and Ghostty. The site also offers free hex color and palette tools, a developer blog on color theory, and software consultancy services. Codigrate (Codigrate OU) is a software company founded in 2021. This site is a client-rendered Angular single-page app; all public content is reachable without authentication. Marketplace listings open on the respective store; everything else is served from this origin. AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot) are allowed on all public content (see /robots.txt). ## Products - [Themes](https://codigrate.com/themes): The full catalogue of IDE/editor themes (nature- and city-inspired), filterable by platform, color, appearance (light/dark), and price (free/paid). - [Color Tool](https://codigrate.com/tools/color): Free in-browser hex color inspector. Converts between HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, OKLCH, HWB; shows readability (WCAG 2 + APCA contrast), color-blindness simulation, and live CSS. - [Palette Tool](https://codigrate.com/tools/palette): Free palette generator and harmony builder (analogous, complementary, split-complementary, triadic, tetradic). Extracts palettes from images and shares them by URL. - [Screenshots](https://codigrate.com/screenshots): Theme screenshots across platforms. ## Company - [Branding](https://codigrate.com/branding): Brand assets, logo, and color guidelines. - [Customers](https://codigrate.com/customers): Customers and testimonials. - [Software Consultancy](https://codigrate.com/software-consultancy): Software consultancy services. - [Software Integration](https://codigrate.com/software-integration): Integration services. - [Quality Assurance](https://codigrate.com/quality-assurance): QA services. - [Contact](https://codigrate.com/contact-us): Contact form for sales and support enquiries. ## Blog - [Blog](https://codigrate.com/blog): Articles on color theory, palette harmony, readability, the places behind the themes, and the platforms Codigrate publishes to. - [RSS feed](https://codigrate.com/blog/rss.xml): RSS 2.0 feed of blog posts. - [Atom feed](https://codigrate.com/blog/atom.xml): Atom feed of blog posts. ## Blog posts - [Anatomy of a Light Theme: Sakura](https://codigrate.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-sakura-theme): Anatomy of Sakura, a light IDE theme: soft blossom whites and petal pinks for the backgrounds, a deep cherry foreground, and syntax in the rose, garden green and clear sky blue of a blooming Sakura garden. - [Anatomy of a Dark Theme: Roraima](https://codigrate.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-roraima-theme): Anatomy of Roraima, a dark IDE theme: a near black canyon at nightfall, lit by the warm oranges and golds of a Mount Roraima sunset set against cool twilight blues and violet. - [CMYK: How Four Inks Print Every Color](https://codigrate.com/blog/cmyk): CMYK reads backwards from every screen model: you start on white paper and subtract light with ink. How a Miami night doubles as a print shop's ink drawer, why the black K exists, and why neon never quite prints. - [HWB: Pick a Hue, Add White, Add Black](https://codigrate.com/blog/hwb): HWB reads like a mixing recipe: a hue, some white, some black. How sakura pink falls out of a rose hue drowned in white, and where hwb() works in CSS. - [Dark Mode and Light Mode: What Your Eyes Actually Want](https://codigrate.com/blog/dark-mode-vs-light-mode): Neither mode is universally easier on your eyes. What dark mode and light mode each do to your pupils, why good dark themes skip pure black, and how to pick by the light in your room. Try it live with a room light demo in two real themes. - [Anatomy of a Light Theme: Autumn](https://codigrate.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-autumn-theme): Anatomy of Autumn, a light IDE theme: warm cream and white backgrounds, a deep espresso foreground, and syntax painted in the rust, gold and green of fall leaves. - [Anatomy of a Dark Theme: Sequoia](https://codigrate.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-sequoia-theme): Anatomy of Sequoia, a dark IDE theme: a near black forest floor in olive charcoal, a soft grey foreground, and syntax in the earth tones of a redwood forest. - [Gradients: Color That Depends on Position](https://codigrate.com/blog/what-is-a-gradient): A gradient makes the color you see depend on where you are on a surface. How color stops, the linear, radial and conic shapes, and repeating gradients actually work. - [Value: How Colors Get Vivid](https://codigrate.com/blog/value): Value is the V in HSV, the brightness dial that tops out at the pure color, not white. How it differs from lightness, and why designers reach for it. - [Lightness: Deciding What You Can Read](https://codigrate.com/blog/lightness): Lightness is how light or dark a color is, the L in HSL: why opposite colors can share one, why contrast lives there, and how to design in grey first. - [Saturation: Deciding What Stands Out](https://codigrate.com/blog/saturation): Saturation decides what stands out: what it is, why color fades to grey not white, why full blast looks cheap, and how one vivid accent carries a muted palette. - [Warm and Cool Colors](https://codigrate.com/blog/warm-and-cool-colors): Color temperature explained: which half of the wheel runs warm, which runs cool, what each side signals, and how to lead a design with the split. - [Designing for Color Vision Deficiency](https://codigrate.com/blog/designing-for-color-blindness): Color blindness, explained for design: the kinds, why red and green get confused, and how to build interfaces everyone can read. Simulate any color live. - [Anatomy of a Light Theme: Everest](https://codigrate.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-everest-theme): Anatomy of Everest, a light IDE theme: layered blue-grey backgrounds, a calm navy foreground, and a cool syntax palette lit by a few warm sparks of dawn. - [Anatomy of a Dark Theme: Aurora Borealis](https://codigrate.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-aurora-borealis-theme): Anatomy of Aurora Borealis, a dark IDE theme: a deep blue night backdrop, a soft grey foreground, and syntax in the real colors of the Northern Lights. - [Reading the Color Wheel](https://codigrate.com/blog/the-color-wheel): The color wheel explained: where its circle comes from, why hue is an angle, what the pale hub and slices mean, and how to read relationships off the ring. - [How Light Makes Colors](https://codigrate.com/blog/how-light-makes-colors): Every color is made of light. See how red, green and blue light add up to build any color on a screen, and why screens glow instead of stain like paint. - [Harmony in Opposites](https://codigrate.com/blog/harmony-in-opposites): Complementary color harmony: why opposite colors lift each other, why balance means keeping one small, the split complement, and how to use opposites well. - [Introduction to Readability](https://codigrate.com/blog/introduction-to-readability): How contrast decides whether text is readable: the WCAG 2 ratio, the APCA Lc score from WCAG 3, and why a color reads differently as ink than as background. - [Introduction to Color Harmony](https://codigrate.com/blog/introduction-to-color-harmony): Color harmony made simple: analogous, monochrome, complementary, split, triadic and tetradic schemes, why each one works, and a live tool to build your palette. - [Introduction to Color Theory](https://codigrate.com/blog/introduction-to-color-theory): A clear, practical guide to the three color models, RGB, HEX, and CMYK. See real values, learn why screens and print differ, and convert any color live. ## Reference - [Sitemap (XML)](https://codigrate.com/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable list of all indexable URLs. - [Sitemap (page)](https://codigrate.com/sitemap): Human-readable site map. - [Robots](https://codigrate.com/robots.txt): Crawl rules and crawler allowlist. - [Privacy Policy](https://codigrate.com/privacy-policy) - [Terms](https://codigrate.com/terms) - [Cookie Policy](https://codigrate.com/cookie-policy)