Air

A VS Code + Cursor port of JetBrains Air — a calm theme family with lavender keywords, pink strings, amber numbers, and green function params.

Features

• Air dark — near-black #18191B editor, soft pastel syntax
• Air light — near-white #FBFBFC editor, deep-tone syntax
• Matched UI chrome, git decorations, diff colors, and terminal ANSI palette
• Semantic highlighting tuned for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, Java, C/C++, PHP, and Ruby

Install

VS Code

1. Extensions panel (Cmd+Shift+X / Ctrl+Shift+X)
2. Search Air by franzgollhammer
3. Install
4. Cmd+K Cmd+T → Air dark or Air light

Or via CLI:

code --install-extension franzgollhammer.air-theme

Cursor

Cursor pulls extensions from Open VSX. Same flow: open the Extensions panel, search Air, install, then pick it under Color Theme.

cursor --install-extension franzgollhammer.air-theme

Manual (.vsix)

Download the latest .vsix from Releases, then:

code --install-extension air-theme-<version>.vsix
# or
cursor --install-extension air-theme-<version>.vsix

Palette

Air dark

Editor background: #18191B.

Air light

Editor background: #FBFBFC.

Terminal themes

Matching palettes for Ghostty, iTerm2, and Warp live in terminal-themes/.

Ghostty

Copy theme file into Ghostty's themes dir, then reference it in config:

mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
cp terminal-themes/ghostty/air-dark ~/.config/ghostty/themes/
cp terminal-themes/ghostty/air-light ~/.config/ghostty/themes/

In ~/.config/ghostty/config:

theme = air-dark
# or: theme = air-light
# or split: theme = light:air-light,dark:air-dark

Reload: Cmd+Shift+, (macOS) or restart Ghostty.

iTerm2

1. iTerm2 → Settings → Profiles → Colors
2. Color Presets… → Import…
3. Pick terminal-themes/iterm2/air-dark.itermcolors (and/or air-light.itermcolors)
4. Color Presets… → select air-dark or air-light

Warp

Copy YAML files into Warp's themes dir, then pick from theme picker:

mkdir -p ~/.warp/themes
cp terminal-themes/warp/air-dark.yaml ~/.warp/themes/
cp terminal-themes/warp/air-light.yaml ~/.warp/themes/

Open Warp → Cmd+P → Open Theme Picker → choose Air dark or Air light.

Pair with Air File Icons

Air File Icons (Open VSX · repo) — matching JetBrains Air–inspired file icon theme.

Development

npm run dev            # launch VS Code with the extension loaded
npm run dev:insiders   # VS Code Insiders
npm run package        # build .vsix
npm run install:local  # package + install into VS Code

See scripts/ for release automation and RELEASING.md for the publish flow.

Credits

Inspired by JetBrains Air.

License

MIT