Inspired by the towering stillness of a sequoia grove, this theme blends deep forest black and bark brown with living green and moss accents to create a grounded and focused coding environment. Dark, earthy backgrounds settle the editor, while warm tans, rusts, and a clear canopy green add contrast and clarity to key syntax elements.
A dark theme from the Codigrate Nature collection, released 2023-09-10. Tags: Forest, Earthy, Calm.
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 Slack
- Download the zip with the Download button. Inside is a small text file with the theme's four colors on one line.
- Open the text file and copy that line.
- In Slack, open Preferences → Themes, scroll to the bottom and paste the line into the custom theme field.
- In Preferences → Appearance, choose Light or Dark mode to match the theme; in Dark mode, turn on Darker sidebars.
- If you switch between light and dark mode, restart Slack so the theme applies correctly.
- Slack applies the theme instantly across the workspace.
Sequoia color palette
Every named color of the Sequoia palette, free to download for MacOS, CorelDRAW and Figma.
Sequoia on every platform
- Sequoia for JetBrains (free)
- Sequoia for Xcode ($2.99)
- Sequoia for VS Code (free)
- Sequoia for Chrome (free)
- Sequoia for Firefox (free)
- Sequoia for Open VSX (free)
- Sequoia for Slack (free), this page
- Sequoia for MacOS Terminal (free)
- Sequoia for iTerm2 (free)
- Sequoia for Ghostty (free)
- Sequoia for Claude Code (free)
- Sequoia for Rhino (free)
- Sequoia for Zed (free)
- Sequoia for Sublime Text (free)
- Sequoia for Line
From the blog
- Anatomy of a Dark Theme: Sequoia: Anatomy of Sequoia, a dark IDE theme: a near black forest floor in olive charcoal, a soft grey foreground, and syntax in the earth tones of a redwood forest.
