The Flying Dutchman

An artisan nautical dark theme — abyssal ocean, aged brass, and a bioluminescent glow.

Colours drawn from the legend of Davy Jones and his ghost ship: a hull lost in abyssal blue-black, the brass of his organ, seafoam on the wake, and a cold storm-blue in the rigging. Every colour is tuned to the same brightness so the whole palette reads as one weathered instrument rather than a box of crayons.

Three variants, one identity — they share their hues and differ only in intensity, so switching never feels like a different theme:

• The Flying Dutchman — the balanced everyday palette.
• High Contrast — the same colours, brighter, on near-black. WCAG AAA on text.
• Soft — muted and gentle for long, low-glare sessions.

Palette

Role	Colour		Role	Colour
Keyword — storm blue	#75acd1		Type — aged brass	#d3ac64
String — seafoam	#65bd9c		Constant — gold	#e0c471
Function — bioluminescence	#5cc4cc		Property — shoal cyan	#8bc0d0
Tag & this — coral	#e09585		Comment — fog	#6a7b8a
Foreground — sea mist	#bfcbd9		Abyss — editor	#131920

Every role clears WCAG AA (4.5:1) against the editor background on all three variants; run bun run check:themes to see the full contrast report.

Install — VS Code

1. Open the Extensions view (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+X), search The Flying Dutchman, Install.
2. Ctrl/Cmd+K Ctrl/Cmd+T, then pick a variant.

Or from the command line:

code --install-extension DavyJones.the-flying-dutchman-theme

Install — terminals & other editors

The same palette ships for six more surfaces. Each folder holds one file.

Where	File	Install
Ghostty	ghostty/	copy to ~/.config/ghostty/themes/, set theme = The-Flying-Dutchman
iTerm2	iterm/	Preferences → Profiles → Colors → Import the .itermcolors
Warp	warp/	copy the .yaml to ~/.warp/themes/
Windows Terminal	windows-terminal/	add the scheme to settings.json
Vim / Neovim	vim/	copy to colors/, then colorscheme flying-dutchman
Sublime Text	sublime-text/	Preferences → Browse Packages → drop in the .tmTheme

One palette, one source of truth

Every theme file in this repo is generated from a single palette so the colours can never drift apart across editors or variants:

bun run build:themes    # regenerate all editors from scripts/palette.mjs
bun run check:themes     # WCAG report; committed files must match the palette (read-only)

To adjust a colour, edit scripts/palette.mjs and rebuild — never hand-edit the generated theme files. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

_{"Part of the ship, part of the crew."}

_{by Galleon Labs}