墨观 Inkstone
A code palette grown from 526 traditional Chinese colors. Six variants share one hue skeleton, so switching feels like the same painting under a different light.
- VS Code
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- VSCodium
- Ghostty
- Kaku / WezTerm
- OpenCode
All six palettes draw from the same traditional Chinese chart. Ink & paper sit on paper and soot; sea & celadon sit on deep water and glaze. Dimmed turns the lights down — it never puts a gray filter over the ink.
Xuanmo
Pine-soot ink underfoot, cinnabar for annotations. The dark canvas gives the brightness back to your code, and red is kept for what needs to be seen — built for long nights.
Xuanmo Dimmed
The same ink with the lights turned down. A deeper canvas, ink that never turns gray, and pigments that give up half a step of saturation — for softer rooms.
Xuanzhi
Raw xuan paper, pine-soot ink, mineral washes. Warm paper, cool ink, and mineral colors in between; keywords use a softened cinnabar that reads as a brush annotation, not an alarm.
Xuanzhi Dimmed
Aged paper in warm gray, with ink a shade deeper. Like an old book page in afternoon light: the paper stops glaring, the pigments fade half a step, but every hue is still recognizable.
Canghai
Deep-sea twilight, blue-green minerals, a single touch of vermilion. A cool canvas that stays quiet without going flat.
Qingci
Moon-white glaze, blue-gray ink, sky-after-rain. Like a Ru ware bowl: the color sits under the glaze and never competes with the text — for daylight and light desks.