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Oxide

A warm accent, #C76F55, on a #221D1C terminal. Primary text reads at 13.82:1 and secondary text at 6.61:1, measured against that background. Free and MIT licensed, one of the 50 Dark Themes for Claude Code.

Oxide

#C76F55
✻ Claude Code · oxide
● Applied theme “Oxide”
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>theme oxide
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Install Oxide.

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 oxide

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 oxide.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/oxide.json -o ~/.claude/themes/oxide.json

Terminal background: #221D1C.

Claude Code colours its own interface; the terminal application owns the canvas behind it. Every figure below is measured against #221D1C, 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
#C76F55claudeClaude's mark and accent
#D59481claudeShimmerAccent highlight while Claude works
#EDE9E9textPrimary text
#AFA09DinactiveSecondary text
#352D2CsubtleDecorative hairlines (reserved, carries no meaning)
#C76F55suggestionAutocomplete suggestions
#8C7A6EpermissionPermission prompt border and indicator
#C76F55promptBorderInput prompt border
#D59481promptBorderShimmerPrompt border highlight
#8C7A6EplanModePlan mode indicator
#2D2725userMessageBackgroundSurface behind your messages
#38312EuserMessageBackgroundHoverThat surface, hovered
#C76F55rate_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#EDE9E9 on #221D1C13.82:17:1WCAG AAA, normal text
text on your-message surface#EDE9E9 on #2D272512.20:17:1WCAG AAA, normal text
inactive on terminal background#AFA09D on #221D1C6.61:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
inactive on your-message surface#AFA09D on #2D27255.83:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
claude on terminal background#C76F55 on #221D1C4.62:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
claudeShimmer on terminal background#D59481 on #221D1C6.64:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
suggestion on terminal background#C76F55 on #221D1C4.62:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
permission on terminal background#8C7A6E on #221D1C4.06:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
planMode on terminal background#8C7A6E on #221D1C4.06:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
promptBorder on terminal background#C76F55 on #221D1C4.62:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
promptBorderShimmer on terminal background#D59481 on #221D1C6.64:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
rate_limit_fill on terminal background#C76F55 on #221D1C4.62:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
your-message surface against the terminal#2D2725 on #221D1C1.13:11.08:1visibly distinct surface
hovered surface against the resting one#38312E on #2D27251.15:11.08:1visibly distinct surface