Hearth

Hearth is a warm color theme that keeps the interface calm and lights the code with a single ember. Six light and dark editor variants are available for VS Code, Cursor, Zed, and Shiki; dedicated light and dark terminal themes are available for Warp and Ghostty.

Explore Hearth, compare every variant, and find installation instructions.

Backgrounds, text, and comments stay in calm neutrals; the warmth lives in the code. Keywords carry a single orange ember. Azure and Teal add one cool hue to functions and types, so structure stands out without turning into a rainbow.

Previews

Hearth Dark

Hearth Dark highlighting an Astro component in Cursor with orange syntax accents

Hearth Dark Azure

Hearth Dark Azure highlighting an Astro component in Cursor with orange and blue syntax accents

Hearth Dark Teal

Hearth Dark Teal highlighting an Astro component in Cursor with orange and teal syntax accents

Hearth Light

Hearth Light highlighting an Astro component in Cursor with orange syntax accents

Hearth Light Azure

Hearth Light Azure highlighting an Astro component in Cursor with orange and blue syntax accents

Hearth Light Teal

Hearth Light Teal highlighting an Astro component in Cursor with orange and teal syntax accents

Themes

Hearth Dark and Hearth Light — duotone, with orange keywords and neutral functions and types.
Hearth Dark Azure and Hearth Light Azure — the same base, with clear blue functions and a lighter tint on types.
Hearth Dark Teal and Hearth Light Teal — the same base, with teal functions and a lighter tint on types.

The terminal palette keeps Hearth's warmth while giving every ANSI color a distinct role: ember red, moss green, amber yellow, Azure blue, muted magenta, and Teal cyan. All editor variants share this palette in their terminal.

Install

Visual Studio Code

Install Hearth from the VS Code Marketplace, search for Hearth in the Extensions panel, or run:

code --install-extension RyanFurrer.hearth

After installing, open the color theme picker with Cmd/Ctrl + K, then Cmd/Ctrl + T, and choose a Hearth theme.

Cursor

Open Cursor's Extensions panel, search for Hearth, and click Install.

You can also find Hearth on Open VSX. To sideload the extension instead, download hearth-latest.vsix, choose Install from VSIX… from the Extensions panel's … menu, and select the downloaded file.

After installing, open the color theme picker and choose a Hearth theme.

Zed

Copy zed/themes/hearth.json to Zed's local themes directory. On macOS and Linux, that is ~/.config/zed/themes/. You can also run zed: install dev extension from the command palette and select the repository's zed/ directory. All six variants will appear in the theme selector.

A Zed extension-store listing is planned.

Warp

Copy the two files in warp/ to your Warp custom themes directory. On macOS:

mkdir -p ~/.warp/themes/hearth
cp warp/*.yaml ~/.warp/themes/hearth/

Restart Warp if it does not discover the new themes immediately. Warp does not expose editor syntax scopes, so Hearth provides one complete ANSI palette in light and dark modes. A listing in Warp's theme repository is in review.

Ghostty

Copy the two files in ghostty/ to Ghostty's custom themes directory:

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

Then add one variant to ~/.config/ghostty/config.ghostty (or config on Ghostty versions before 1.2.3):

theme = hearth-dark

To follow the system appearance automatically, pair the corresponding light and dark variants:

theme = dark:hearth-dark,light:hearth-light

Reload Ghostty with Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + , after changing the theme.

Shiki

The theme files in themes/ can also be used directly with Shiki. Each file includes its VS Code theme name:

Style	Light	Dark
Hearth	`hearth-light.json`	`hearth-dark.json`
Teal	`hearth-light-teal.json`	`hearth-dark-teal.json`
Azure	`hearth-light-azure.json`	`hearth-dark-azure.json`

Development

Run npm run build after changing either base theme or an accent value. The build regenerates the accented VS Code themes, the Zed theme family, and the light and dark Warp and Ghostty themes from the same source palettes.

Run npm run package to build the sideloadable VS Code extension as hearth-latest.vsix.

Pushing a v* tag runs the release workflow. It verifies that the tag matches the VS Code and Zed manifests, validates every generated theme, packages the VSIX once, publishes it to GitHub Releases, the VS Code Marketplace, and Open VSX, then triggers a fresh build of the Hearth landing page. The workflow can also be rerun manually for an existing tag.

Maintainers configure VSCE_PAT, OVSX_PAT, and PORTFOLIO_DEPLOY_HOOK as GitHub Actions secrets. The Marketplace credential will move from an Azure DevOps PAT to Microsoft Entra workload identity before PAT retirement.

License

Hearth was made by Ryan Furrer and is available under the MIT License.