Theme System

Built-in themes

SANDCODE ships with 6 built-in themes:

Theme	Style
dark	Dark background, amber accents (default)
light	Light background, amber accents
light-daltonized	Color-blind friendly light theme
dark-daltonized	Color-blind friendly dark theme
light-ansi	Light theme using only 16 ANSI colors
dark-ansi	Dark theme using only 16 ANSI colors

Selecting a theme

In your config:

{
  "theme": "dark"
}

Or set to auto to follow your system’s dark/light mode preference.

Theme colors

The SANDCODE palette is defined in src/utils/theme.ts:

• Primary (amber): rgb(245,166,35) — #F5A623
• Shimmer: rgb(255,196,65) — lighter amber for hover states
• Suggestion: rgb(177,185,249) — light blue-purple
• Permission: rgb(177,185,249) — light blue-purple
• Success: rgb(78,186,101) — green
• Error: rgb(255,107,128) — red
• Warning: rgb(255,193,7) — bright amber

Daltonized themes

The daltonized themes adjust colors for common forms of color blindness (deuteranopia, protanopia). They use blue/green tones instead of red/green for status indicators, and increase contrast between adjacent colors.

ANSI themes

For terminals without true color support (24-bit), the ANSI themes use only the 16 standard ANSI color codes. These work in older terminal emulators and over SSH connections.