Candela Color Schemes for Sublime Text

Color schemes for Sublime Text and your terminal, tuned for long sessions and tired eyes. Low-glare backgrounds, desaturated accents, and WCAG-AA contrast throughout, with the same palette everywhere you work.

Why Candela

• Built for tired eyes — low-glare backgrounds (never pure white or black) and desaturated accents that resist visual fringing.
• Readable by design — every syntax and UI color clears WCAG-AA contrast; primary text clears AAA.
• One palette everywhere — the same colors in your editor and your terminal.
• A whole family — light schemes for every room, plus dark companions, all from one coordinated, curated set.

After installing, choose a Candela scheme from Preferences > Select Color Scheme.

Candela then offers to switch the UI theme to Adaptive, which extends the palette to the sidebar, tabs and status bar — every other UI theme keeps its own grays. Decline it and only the editor recolors; you can turn it on later with Candela: Color the sidebar, tabs and status bar too in the command palette, or by hand with "theme": "Adaptive.sublime-theme".

Build your own in the browser: adjust any palette, keep the same contrast rules, export it for your editor — candela.ink/editor.

Every color scheme

All 26 color schemes, each shown across terminal, TypeScript, Markdown, and git panes.

Sepia Paper — light

Slate Mist — light

Sage — light

Solarized Lite — light

Blossom — light

Lagoon — light

Meadow — light

Apricot — light

Periwinkle — light

Ink & Coral — light

E-Ink Slate — light

Graphite Mono — light

Azure Mono — dark

Hearth Dawn — light

Hearth Dusk — dark

Arclight Dawn — light

Arclight Dusk — dark

Nocturne — dark

Borealis — dark

Nightshade — dark

Blue Hour — dark

Ember — dark

Moss & Magenta — dark

Amber Mono — dark

Harbor Dawn — light

Harbor Dusk — dark

Generated from the Candela source of truth — do not edit by hand.