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Tidepool

A green accent, #3FC8B0, on a #162222 terminal. Primary text reads at 13.81:1 and secondary text at 7.14:1, measured against that background. Free and MIT licensed, one of the 50 Dark Themes for Claude Code.

Tidepool

#3FC8B0
✻ Claude Code · tidepool
● Applied theme “Tidepool”
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>theme tidepool
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Install Tidepool.

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 tidepool

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

Terminal background: #162222.

Claude Code colours its own interface; the terminal application owns the canvas behind it. Every figure below is measured against #162222, 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
#3FC8B0claudeClaude's mark and accent
#7EDACAclaudeShimmerAccent highlight while Claude works
#E8EDEDtextPrimary text
#9DAFAFinactiveSecondary text
#263636subtleDecorative hairlines (reserved, carries no meaning)
#3FC8B0suggestionAutocomplete suggestions
#88E0D0permissionPermission prompt border and indicator
#3FC8B0promptBorderInput prompt border
#7EDACApromptBorderShimmerPrompt border highlight
#88E0D0planModePlan mode indicator
#1E2E2EuserMessageBackgroundSurface behind your messages
#263A3AuserMessageBackgroundHoverThat surface, hovered
#3FC8B0rate_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#E8EDED on #16222213.81:17:1WCAG AAA, normal text
text on your-message surface#E8EDED on #1E2E2E11.96:17:1WCAG AAA, normal text
inactive on terminal background#9DAFAF on #1622227.14:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
inactive on your-message surface#9DAFAF on #1E2E2E6.18:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
claude on terminal background#3FC8B0 on #1622227.85:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
claudeShimmer on terminal background#7EDACA on #1622229.92:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
suggestion on terminal background#3FC8B0 on #1622227.85:14.5:1WCAG AA, normal text
permission on terminal background#88E0D0 on #16222210.59:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
planMode on terminal background#88E0D0 on #16222210.59:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
promptBorder on terminal background#3FC8B0 on #1622227.85:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
promptBorderShimmer on terminal background#7EDACA on #1622229.92:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
rate_limit_fill on terminal background#3FC8B0 on #1622227.85:13:1WCAG AA, non-text
your-message surface against the terminal#1E2E2E on #1622221.15:11.08:1visibly distinct surface
hovered surface against the resting one#263A3A on #1E2E2E1.17:11.08:1visibly distinct surface