Saltmarsh — Estuary colours: sea lavender, cordgrass, samphire, tide

Saltmarsh variants side by side

Three themes in one extension: Saltmarsh Tide, Saltmarsh Dusk, Saltmarsh Haar. Saltmarsh is the edge of an estuary at low tide: sea lavender in flower, cordgrass gone to straw, samphire reddening on the mud, and the channel water holding the sky. Keywords take the lavender, strings the straw, numbers the samphire, types the tide water. Grounds are muted fog, channel slate or dusk brown, never pure black or white, and every syntax colour clears WCAG AA against them, so long sessions stay low-glare.

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
Saltmarsh Tide (dark)	12.7:1	6.8:1	5.5:1
Saltmarsh Dusk (dark)	12.4:1	7.2:1	5.4:1
Saltmarsh Haar (light)	11.6:1	5.0:1	4.8:1

Saltmarsh Tide

Saltmarsh Dusk

Saltmarsh Haar

Every language, the same calm

Go, Rust, YAML and Markdown in Saltmarsh Tide

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 Saltmarsh
Install, then Ctrl+K Ctrl+T (or Cmd+K Cmd+T) and pick Saltmarsh Tide / Saltmarsh Dusk / Saltmarsh Haar.

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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Saltmarsh Theme — Estuary colours: sea lavender, cordgrass, samphire, tide

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