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Acid

A warm accent, #C8E62E, on a #191B13 terminal. Primary text reads at 14.80:1 and secondary text at 7.76:1, measured against that background. Free and MIT licensed, one of the 50 Dark Themes for Claude Code.

Acid

#C8E62E
✻ Claude Code · acid
● Applied theme “Acid”
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>theme acid
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Install Acid.

Requires Claude Code v2.1.118 or later. The marketplace command is needed once per machine; the plugin command installs the whole 50 Dark Themes pack, and /theme inside Claude Code switches to this one.

$ claude plugin marketplace add notgabriels-sys/claude-code-50-dark-themes
$ claude plugin install 50-dark-themes@notgabriels-themes
$ /theme acid

Plugin themes are read-only. Press Ctrl+E on one in /theme for an editable copy in ~/.claude/themes/.

Or copy just this file.

One theme, no plugin: fetch acid.json from the repository into your themes folder. If that folder did not exist when Claude Code started, restart it once.

$ mkdir -p ~/.claude/themes && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notgabriels-sys/claude-code-50-dark-themes/main/acid.json -o ~/.claude/themes/acid.json

Terminal background: #191B13.

Claude Code colours its own interface; the terminal application owns the canvas behind it. Every figure below is measured against #191B13, so set that as the terminal background for the result the numbers describe. On a different background the ratios move.

Palette.

The thirteen overrides Claude Code reads from the theme file. Success, error, warning and diff colours are deliberately not overridden, so status meaning stays the same across every theme in the pack.

ColourTokenRole
#C8E62EclaudeClaude's mark and accent
#DBEF77claudeShimmerAccent highlight while Claude works
#EDEDE8textPrimary text
#ACAF9DinactiveSecondary text
#2D2F22subtleDecorative hairlines (reserved, carries no meaning)
#C8E62EsuggestionAutocomplete suggestions
#8A38D8permissionPermission prompt border and indicator
#C8E62EpromptBorderInput prompt border
#DBEF77promptBorderShimmerPrompt border highlight
#8A38D8planModePlan mode indicator
#24271BuserMessageBackgroundSurface behind your messages
#2F3323userMessageBackgroundHoverThat surface, hovered
#C8E62Erate_limit_fillUsage meter fill

Measured contrast.

Computed from the hex values above with the WCAG 2 relative-luminance formula, by the same script that gates every change to this repository. Figures are truncated, never rounded up. Each row meets its floor.

PairColoursRatioFloorStandard
text on terminal background#EDEDE8 on #191B1314.80:17:1WCAG AAA, normal text
text on your-message surface#EDEDE8 on #24271B12.94:17:1WCAG AAA, normal text
inactive on terminal background#ACAF9D on #191B137.76:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
inactive on your-message surface#ACAF9D on #24271B6.78:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
claude on terminal background#C8E62E on #191B1312.26:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
claudeShimmer on terminal background#DBEF77 on #191B1313.76:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
suggestion on terminal background#C8E62E on #191B1312.26:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
permission on terminal background#8A38D8 on #191B133.01:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
planMode on terminal background#8A38D8 on #191B133.01:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
promptBorder on terminal background#C8E62E on #191B1312.26:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
promptBorderShimmer on terminal background#DBEF77 on #191B1313.76:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
rate_limit_fill on terminal background#C8E62E on #191B1312.26:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
your-message surface against the terminal#24271B on #191B131.14:11.08:1visibly distinct surface
hovered surface against the resting one#2F3323 on #24271B1.17:11.08:1visibly distinct surface