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.
Getting started on Sublime Text
- Download the zip with the Download button. Inside is one folder with the color scheme and the window theme.
- In Sublime Text, open Preferences → Browse Packages…. Your Packages folder opens in Finder / Explorer.
- Unzip the download and drag its folder into that Packages folder. Sublime Text picks it up at once, no restart.
- Back in Sublime Text, open Preferences → Select Color Scheme… and choose the theme to paint the editor; then Preferences → Select Theme… and choose the same name to paint the window.
Istanbul color palette
Every named color of the Istanbul palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Istanbul on every platform
- Istanbul for JetBrains (free)
- Istanbul for Xcode ($2.99)
- Istanbul for VS Code (free)
- Istanbul for Chrome (free)
- Istanbul for Firefox (coming soon)
- Istanbul for Open VSX (free)
- Istanbul for Slack (free)
- Istanbul for MacOS Terminal (free)
- Istanbul for iTerm2 (free)
- Istanbul for Ghostty (free)
- Istanbul for Rhino (free)
- Istanbul for Zed (free)
- Istanbul for Sublime Text (free), this page
- Istanbul for Line
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.
