Inspired by the deep and tranquil world of the ocean, this dark theme seamlessly blends layered dark teal tones with soft cyan highlights and subtle bioluminescent accents. This balanced palette offers a calm and immersive backdrop, ensuring an optimal and focused coding experience.
A dark theme from the Codigrate Nature collection, released 2025-12-27. Tags: Deep, Tranquil, Immersive.
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Getting started on Xcode
- Download the zip with the Download button. Inside are two theme files: one for Xcode 26 ( .xcworkspacecolortheme ) and one for Xcode 16 and earlier ( .xccolortheme ).
- Copy both files into ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes/ ( in Finder, Shift+Cmd+G takes you to the path; create the folder if it is not there ).
- Xcode 26: open Settings → Appearance, click Choose next to Theme and pick the theme under Custom. Xcode 16 and earlier: Settings → Themes lists it after a restart.
- The theme paints the source editor, the console and the documentation view; the window keeps the macOS look.
Ocean color palette
Every named color of the Ocean palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Ocean on every platform
- Ocean for JetBrains
- Ocean for Xcode ($2.99), this page
- Ocean for Zed (
.99) - Ocean for Sublime Text (
.99) - Ocean for MacOS Terminal (
.99) - Ocean for iTerm2 (
.99) - Ocean for Ghostty (
.99) - Ocean for Rhino (
.99) - Ocean for Slack ($0.99)
- Ocean for Line
From the blog
- Anatomy of a Dark Theme: Ocean: Anatomy of Ocean, a dark IDE theme: deep teal water lit by bioluminescent cyan, with the coral, anemone pink and sandbar gold of a reef in a diver's light.
