Inspired by cherry blossom season and the quiet gardens beneath it, this theme pairs pale petal backgrounds with deep rose and plum accents to create a soft and unhurried coding environment. Light, gentle surfaces keep the editor calm, while muted greens and clear sky blues add balance and focus to key syntax elements.
A light theme from the Codigrate Nature collection, released 2023-10-17. Tags: Pastel, Soft, Elegant.
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 MacOS Terminal
- Download the .terminal profile with the Download button.
- Double-click the downloaded file to import it into Terminal ( or, in Terminal, go to Settings → Profiles → the ⋯ menu → Import… and choose the file ).
- With the imported profile selected, click Default to set it as your default profile.
- Open a new Terminal window, and the theme is applied.
Sakura color palette
Every named color of the Sakura palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Sakura on every platform
- Sakura for JetBrains (free)
- Sakura for Xcode ($2.99)
- Sakura for VS Code (free)
- Sakura for Chrome (free)
- Sakura for Firefox (coming soon)
- Sakura for Open VSX (free)
- Sakura for Slack (free)
- Sakura for MacOS Terminal (free), this page
- Sakura for iTerm2 (free)
- Sakura for Ghostty (free)
- Sakura for Rhino (free)
- Sakura for Zed (free)
- Sakura for Sublime Text (free)
- Sakura for Line
From the blog
- Anatomy of a Light Theme: Sakura: Anatomy of Sakura, a light IDE theme: blossom white and petal pink backgrounds, a deep cherry foreground, and syntax in rose, garden green and sky blue.
- HWB: Pick a Hue, Add White, Add Black: 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.
