🔥 Ember — A warm, hand-crafted color theme
A nearly monochrome warm graphite color theme with muted olive, gold, and steel tones — and one vivid coral ember that catches your eye. Three flavors for every lighting mood.
Philosophy
Three decisions.
One ember among ashes
Eight accent colors, but only one is vivid. Coral handles keywords, cursor, and search highlights. Everything else stays quiet.
One hue tints everything
Background, foreground, borders — all tinted with the same warm amber. Not a neutral grey base with colors dropped on top. One hue, root to tip.
Perceptual balance
All accents sit in the same CIELAB lightness band. No color reads as louder than another — you see structure, not a palette.
Dark, soft, light.
Same palette. Three background temperatures.
Anatomy
Where Ember lives.
Temperature on x, saturation on y. Most themes cluster cool and saturated. Ember doesn't.
Temperature →↑ Saturation
The Ramp
One continuous gradient from deepest shadow to foreground. Same warm hue, edge to edge.
11 stops · H42° · S8–12% · L5% → L82%
Perceptual Cluster
Eight accents plotted by CIELAB lightness — the scale your eye actually perceives. Most cluster in a tight 9-unit band.
RoseMauveSageSteelOliveCoralOrangeGold
L*55–74 · 7 of 8 within a 9-unit band