Patina

A warm, muted color theme inspired by oxidized copper. Teal verdigris meets amber warmth on deep, quiet backgrounds.

Variants

Patina Dark, Light, and Stellar pass WCAG AA contrast (4.5:1) on every syntax token except markup.ignored, which is intentionally blended with the background. Patina Dark Soft and Lichen intentionally soften a handful of tokens slightly below strict AA for reduced eye strain.

Previews

Patina Dark	Patina Dark Soft	Patina Moss
Patina Light	Patina Lichen	Patina Stellar

Install

VS Code / Cursor / VSCodium search for Patina in the Extensions panel, or:

ext install LuisCMarkmann.patina-theme

Also published on Open VSX for Cursor, VSCodium, and other open vsx compatible editors.

Zed open the command palette, run zed: install extension, and search for Patina.

Also available for

Copy the relevant files into your editor or terminal config directory. Yazi has a package manager, so it installs itself:

ya pkg add lmarkmann/patina-theme:patina-dark-soft

Then in ~/.config/yazi/theme.toml:

[flavor]
dark = "patina-dark-soft"
light = "patina-light"

PRs porting Patina to other apps are welcome. The colors live in palette/*.toml, one file per variant; everything else in this repo is generated from them by tools/generate.py, so please don't hand-edit a theme file.

I also recommend the Input Font together with the themes; the previews above are set in it.

License

MIT