Inspired by the towering stillness of a sequoia grove, this theme blends deep forest black and bark brown with living green and moss accents to create a grounded and focused coding environment. Dark, earthy backgrounds settle the editor, while warm tans, rusts, and a clear canopy green add contrast and clarity to key syntax elements.
A dark theme from the Codigrate Nature collection, released 2023-09-10. Tags: Forest, Earthy, Calm.
A free download from codigrate.com under the MIT licence: add it to your cart, enter the e-mail address the download link goes to, and get the theme file with its install steps.
Getting started on Codex
- Download the theme with the Download button. It is one file named after the theme, for example codigrate-london.tmTheme; keep the name as is.
- Move the file into your Codex themes folder, ~/.codex/themes/. If the folder is not there yet, create it in a terminal: mkdir -p ~/.codex/themes
- In Codex, type /theme and pick the theme from the list, for example codigrate-london.
- Codex keeps your terminal's background: for the full look, set your terminal's background to the theme's own.
Sequoia color palette
Every named color of the Sequoia palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Sequoia on every platform
- Sequoia for JetBrains (free)
- Sequoia for Xcode ($2.99)
- Sequoia for VS Code (free)
- Sequoia for Chrome (free)
- Sequoia for Firefox (free)
- Sequoia for Open VSX (free)
- Sequoia for Slack (free)
- Sequoia for MacOS Terminal (free)
- Sequoia for iTerm2 (free)
- Sequoia for Ghostty (free)
- Sequoia for Claude Code (free)
- Sequoia for Codex (free), this page
- Sequoia for OpenCode (free)
- Sequoia for Rhino (free)
- Sequoia for Zed (free)
- Sequoia for Sublime Text (free)
- Sequoia for Line
From the blog
- Anatomy of a Dark Theme: Sequoia: 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.
