EVA Noctis

Twenty-eight vivid color themes inspired by the Evangelion units of the Rebuild films, the MAGI supercomputer interface, NERV, SEELE, the A.T. Field, Instrumentality, Terminal Dogma, the Angels and light counterparts of the main units, built on top of the excellent Noctis theme family by Liviu Schera.

Noctis is loved for its carefully balanced syntax highlighting and clear diagnostics. EVA Noctis keeps that structure and swaps in bold, saturated palettes: neon greens against deep violets, warning-sign oranges over near-black reds, and crisp sky blues for a daylight option.

Themes

12 dark themes, 9 light themes, 2 high contrast themes and 5 OLED themes, so you always have a match for your system appearance.

Preview

Each preview shows the editor, explorer, diagnostics, status bar and integrated terminal with its 16 ANSI colors.

OLED themes

The five OLED themes use a true #000000 background for the editor, sidebar, tabs, panel and integrated terminal, so those pixels are switched off on OLED screens. Thin dark separators keep the layout readable, and the text is slightly off-white (or amber/bone) to avoid halos. In kitty and Ghostty, set background_opacity 1.0 / background-opacity = 1 with these themes: translucent black loses the point.

High contrast themes

Noctis (NERV High Contrast) and Noctis (EVA Mark.06 High Contrast) use pure black or pure white backgrounds, syntax colors with at least 7:1 contrast (WCAG AAA), and strong borders around focused and active elements. They are registered as VS Code high contrast themes, so they are also offered automatically when you enable a high contrast color mode in your operating system.

Highlights

• Derived from Noctis. Every UI color, token color, diagnostic and Git decoration was remapped from the Noctis and Noctis Lux base themes, so nothing is left half-styled.
• Readable by design. Syntax text has at least 4.5:1 contrast against the editor background (comments at least 4:1). Errors and warnings are adjusted the same way.
• Vibrant, not noisy. Strong accents are reserved for the things that matter: the cursor, the active tab border, the status bar, keywords and strings.
• Matching terminal colors. Each theme defines all 16 ANSI colors for the integrated terminal, so ls, git and compiler output pick up the same palette.
• Light and dark pairs. Use Noctis (EVA-01) and Noctis (EVA-00) as a natural dark/light duo.

Install

1. Open the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X).
2. Search for EVA Noctis and click Install.
3. Open the theme picker with Ctrl+K Ctrl+T (Cmd+K Cmd+T on macOS) and choose one of the Noctis (EVA-NN) themes.

From the command line:

code --install-extension RavenEibu.eva-noctis

Follow your system appearance

To switch automatically between a dark and a light theme, add this to your settings.json:

"window.autoDetectColorScheme": true,
"workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme": "Noctis (EVA-01)",
"workbench.preferredLightColorTheme": "Noctis (EVA-00)"

Tweaking a theme

You can override any color without forking the theme. For example, to change the cursor color in EVA-01 only:

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
  "[Noctis (EVA-01)]": {
    "editorCursor.foreground": "#ff4fd8"
  }
}

Syntax colors can be adjusted the same way with editor.tokenColorCustomizations.

Terminal themes

The same palettes are available as kitty and Ghostty themes, plus the formats in the table below, in the terminals folder of the repository (also bundled inside the extension). Each one defines the background, foreground, cursor, selection, tabs (kitty) and the 16 ANSI colors, so your terminal matches your editor.

Interactive installer (Linux and macOS). It asks which terminal you use (kitty, Ghostty or both), offers to activate a dark/light pair (EVA-01 / EVA-00 by default), and if the themes are already installed it also offers to uninstall them, restoring your previous config:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RavenEibu/eva-noctis/main/terminals/install.sh | bash

For scripts there are flags: --install / --uninstall, --kitty / --ghostty / --alacritty / --wezterm / --foot / --konsole / --zellij / --tmux / --xresources (combine as many as you want), --apply, --dark EVA-13 --light EVA-01-Light, --list and --status (what is installed and which pair is active). The interactive menu covers kitty and Ghostty; the other terminals are installed with their flags, and for those --apply only prints the lines to add to your config instead of editing it. To install from a tag or commit instead of main, set EVA_NOCTIS_REF (for example EVA_NOCTIS_REF=v0.9.0); to verify the download, also set EVA_NOCTIS_SHA256 (each release publishes a SHA256SUMS file and a zip with only the terminal themes). --dry-run prints what would change without touching any file. Existing configs are backed up as *.pre-eva-noctis. The same script is bundled with the extension: bash ~/.vscode/extensions/raveneibu.eva-noctis-*/terminals/install.sh.

Manual install: kitty

mkdir -p ~/.config/kitty/themes
cp terminals/kitty/themes/*.conf ~/.config/kitty/themes/

Pick one with kitten themes (they appear under Custom), or add a line such as include themes/Noctis-EVA-01.conf to kitty.conf. To follow the system appearance, copy a dark and a light theme to ~/.config/kitty/dark-theme.auto.conf and light-theme.auto.conf.

Manual install: Ghostty

mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
cp terminals/ghostty/themes/* ~/.config/ghostty/themes/

Then set, for example, theme = light:Noctis-EVA-00,dark:Noctis-EVA-01 in ~/.config/ghostty/config (or config.ghostty).

Manual install: Alacritty (0.13+, TOML)

mkdir -p ~/.config/alacritty/themes
cp terminals/alacritty/themes/*.toml ~/.config/alacritty/themes/

Then add [general] with import = ["~/.config/alacritty/themes/Noctis-EVA-01.toml"] to alacritty.toml (before 0.14 use a top-level import).

Manual install: WezTerm

mkdir -p ~/.config/wezterm/colors
cp terminals/wezterm/themes/*.toml ~/.config/wezterm/colors/

Then set config.color_scheme = "Noctis-EVA-01" in wezterm.lua, adding config.color_scheme_dirs = { wezterm.config_dir .. "/colors" } if the scheme is not found.

More terminals

All of them are generated from the same palettes and checked against the VS Code colors when the extension is packaged.

Theme file names follow the pattern Noctis-EVA-01, Noctis-EVA-01-Berserk, Noctis-MAGI, Noctis-NERV-HC, and so on.

Stability and support

From 1.0 the public surface is: the theme names (Noctis (EVA-01), ...), the terminal theme file names (Noctis-EVA-01, ...), the install.sh / install.ps1 flags and the EVA_NOCTIS_* variables. Renaming or removing any of them is a major version; adding a theme or format is a minor one; color tweaks and fixes are patches.

Terminal formats by how they were checked:

macOS support of install.sh is also best effort (it only uses bash 3.2 features, but it is not tested there).

Development

Themes are generated from the Noctis base themes by a small script, so a palette change is one edit and a rebuild:

bash scripts/build_all.sh                          # clones Noctis (pinned), regenerates, tests and packages
bash scripts/build_all.sh --check                  # same, and fails if generated files are out of date (used by CI)

Or step by step:

git clone https://github.com/liviuschera/Noctis.git ../noctis-src
python3 scripts/build.py ../noctis-src/themes      # themes/*.json
python3 scripts/terminals.py ../noctis-src/themes  # terminals/<terminal>/themes
python3 scripts/screenshots.py                     # images/*.png (needs Playwright)
python3 scripts/package.py                         # eva-noctis-<version>.vsix

Packaging checks every registered VS Code theme against the generated palette, its terminal counterparts (kitty, Ghostty, Alacritty, WezTerm and every format above), the OLED true-black surfaces and the readability contract (syntax 4.5:1, comments 4:1, high contrast 7:1, status bar and cursor, terminal ANSI colors). It then verifies the files inside the VSIX before replacing an existing package. A missing or mismatched theme stops packaging with an error.

Palettes are plain data in scripts/palettes.toml (a palette can extends another and override only what changes, like the OLED and high contrast variants); scripts/build.py turns them into the VS Code themes and scripts/terminals.py into every terminal theme. Every text color is adjusted automatically to meet its contrast target (4.5:1, or 7:1 for the high contrast themes).

Feedback

Colors are a matter of taste, and the palettes are a loose interpretation of each unit rather than an exact match. If a color looks off or a language is hard to read, please open an issue or leave a review on the Marketplace with a short code sample and the theme name.

Credits and license

• Based on Noctis by Liviu Schera, released under the MIT license. The original license is included as NOCTIS-LICENSE.md.
• EVA Noctis is released under the MIT license.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Khara, Studio Ghibli, or the rights holders of Neon Genesis Evangelion or Rebuild of Evangelion. Unit names are used only to describe the color inspiration.