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 OpenCode
- Download the theme with the Download button. It is one file named after the theme, for example codigrate-london.json; keep the name as is.
- Move the file into your OpenCode themes folder, ~/.config/opencode/themes/. If the folder is not there yet, create it in a terminal: mkdir -p ~/.config/opencode/themes
- In OpenCode, type /theme and pick the theme from the list, for example codigrate-london.
- Your terminal needs 24-bit color: run echo $COLORTERM and look for truecolor or 24bit.
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 (free)
- Sakura for Open VSX (free)
- Sakura for Slack (free)
- Sakura for MacOS Terminal (free)
- Sakura for iTerm2 (free)
- Sakura for Ghostty (free)
- Sakura for Claude Code (free)
- Sakura for Codex (free)
- Sakura for OpenCode (free), this page
- 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.
