Istanbul Theme for Ghostty

The Codigrate Istanbul theme for Ghostty. Preview the screenshot and the palette, then get it in a few steps.

Inspired by the soft daylight and sea breezes of Istanbul, this theme blends calm turquoise tones with warm historical accents to create a serene yet expressive coding environment. Light, airy backgrounds keep the editor clean and comfortable, while teals, aquas, and muted golden hues add clarity and focus to essential syntax elements.

A light theme from the Codigrate Cities collection, released 2026-01-03. Tags: Mediterranean, Historic, Airy.

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.

Istanbul theme for Ghostty, a screenshot

Getting started on Ghostty

  1. Download the theme with the Download button. It is one file named after the theme, for example Codigrate London; keep the name as is.
  2. Move the file into your Ghostty themes folder, ~/.config/ghostty/themes/ ( the same path on macOS and Linux ). If the folder is not there yet, create it in a terminal: mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes ( on a Mac, Shift+Cmd+G in Finder takes you to the path ).
  3. Open your Ghostty config: in Ghostty press Cmd+, ( Ctrl+, on Linux ), and the config file opens in your editor ( Ghostty creates it if you have none yet ). Add a line: theme = Codigrate London ( the file name ).
  4. Save, then press Shift+Cmd+, ( Ctrl+Shift+, on Linux ) in Ghostty to reload the config, and the theme is applied.

Istanbul color palette

Every named color of the Istanbul palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.

Istanbul on every platform

From the blog

  • Anatomy of a Light Theme: Istanbul: Anatomy of Istanbul, a light IDE theme: marble white backgrounds, a midnight teal foreground, and syntax in Iznik turquoise, rooftop red and bazaar copper.
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