Kiln — Pottery glaze colours: raku smoke, tenmoku iron, celadon jade.

Kiln variants side by side

Three themes in one extension: Kiln Raku, Kiln Tenmoku, Kiln Celadon. Kiln takes its colours from glazed pottery rather than from neon: copper lustre for keywords, cobalt blue for strings, celadon green for numbers, ash-glaze straw for types and Jun-ware purple for parameters. Raku is the smoke-blackened clay just pulled from the fire, Tenmoku is the brown-black iron glaze of a tea bowl, and Celadon is the pale jade glaze for daylight. The grounds are matte and low in saturation like fired clay, so only the glaze colours stand out; body text is AAA and every syntax colour, comments included, is at least AA.

Every colour in your code is measured against its background. Body text passes WCAG AAA, and every syntax colour passes AA, comments included.

Variant	Body text	Lowest syntax colour	Comments
Kiln Raku (dark)	12.8:1	7.0:1	5.6:1
Kiln Tenmoku (dark)	13.5:1	6.6:1	5.5:1
Kiln Celadon (light)	12.6:1	5.2:1	4.9:1

Kiln Raku

Kiln Tenmoku

Kiln Celadon

Every language, the same calm

Go, Rust, YAML and Markdown in Kiln Raku

Tuned for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Markdown, JSON, YAML, HTML and CSS, with semantic highlighting on. The terminal's 16 colours, git decorations, diffs and bracket pairs all use the same palette.

Install

Open the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X, or Cmd+Shift+X on macOS) and search Kiln
Install, then Ctrl+K Ctrl+T (or Cmd+K Cmd+T) and pick Kiln Raku / Kiln Tenmoku / Kiln Celadon.

The same colours everywhere else

The theme pack ($14.99 once) carries these palettes to iTerm2, Windows Terminal, Alacritty, kitty, Obsidian and JetBrains IDEs, together with every other palette we make. The free theme above is complete on its own.

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Kiln Theme — Pottery glaze colours: raku smoke, tenmoku iron, celadon jade.

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