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Getting Started

The publisher ID and extension ID are the durable identity. Use them to avoid confusing Syntalume with similarly named extensions.

Themes and Profiles

Profiles and customizations are scope-aware. The auralis.profiles.scope setting controls where they write:

File and Product Icons

File icons cover common frontend, backend, infrastructure, data, and configuration files, including TypeScript, React, Rust, Go,…

Appearance

Tune and Calibration

Every Syntalume theme is generated from a perceptual (OKLab) color engine — and Tune puts a slice of that engine in your hands.

Type — Font Pairings

A theme is only half the picture; the letterforms are the other half. Syntalume Type curates one font pairing per theme family —…

Rhythm — Scheduled Themes

Rhythm switches Syntalume themes automatically at the local times you choose: light for daylight, forest for the evening, cinema…

Ambience Features

Syntalume ambience features are optional editor decorations. They are off by default unless a profile or toggle enables them.

Project Themes and Accents

Every window its own aurora. When you work across several projects at once, the "which window is this?" problem is real —…

Customization

Enter an accent color as a hex value (for example #5cc8a0). Syntalume checks that it reaches at least 3:1 contrast against both…

Tools

Icon Studio

Icon Studio is the searchable browser and preset editor for the Syntalume file icon system. Open it with:

Accessibility Lab

Accessibility Lab turns the active theme's readability and status colors into an inspectable report. It works with Syntalume…

Environment Guard

Environment Guard makes the workbench itself tell you when you are pointed at production. It watches three local signals:

Export Terminal Theme

Your terminal can match your editor exactly. Syntalume generates ports of every theme for six terminal apps from the same color…

Tooling Setup

Syntalume can configure a polished formatter and linter setup without bundling heavy tooling into the theme.

Porting Syntalume

Syntalume first-party ports cover VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and six terminals — all generated from one palette source. Community…

Team and workflow

Team Profiles

A repository can recommend one editor-neutral Syntalume appearance to everyone who opens it. VS Code and the optional Syntalume…

Review Sessions and Edit Provenance

snapshots your current look, applies the Review Lens profile (high-contrast theme, diff and SCM settings, edit heat), resets the…