The soothing pastel classic — mauve accents on a warm midnight base.
Catppuccin Latte — Claude Code theme
light✓ token theme · safeDaylight Catppuccin — soft pastels that stay readable on a bright desk.
palette by Catppuccin · MIT · upstream source ↗
Color tokens
Background
#eff1f5
Panel / sidebar
#e6e9ef
Code background
#dce0e8
Border
#ccd0da
Text
#4c4f69
Muted text
#6c6f85
Accent
#7287fd
Strings / added
#40a02b
Keywords
#8839ef
Functions
#1e66f5
Comments
#9ca0b0
Errors / removed
#d20f39
Warnings
#fe640b
Notes on this palette
Most light themes are dark themes turned inside out, and it shows. Latte is not that. It's the one light flavor among Catppuccin's four, drawn from the same pastel family as Mocha but re-inked: the purple deepens to #8839ef, the green to a leafy #40a02b, because pastels that glow on charcoal wash out on paper-white. The base is a cool, faintly blue off-white that sits a step below full white — enough to take the edge off a bright screen.
This is the daylight half of an agent setup: sun on the desk, a video call in the corner, someone reading over your shoulder. Output stays legible when the window is small or screenshared, and the red/green pair used for diffs was tuned for a light background rather than inherited from the dark mode, which many light themes never bother to check. Long sessions feel closer to reading a document than staring at a lamp.
If Mocha is your night theme, Latte is the obvious morning shift — same accent logic, same family of ports everywhere, so your terminal and editor can follow along in one move. It also makes a good default for people who find most light themes clinical: there's just enough warmth in the gray to feel chosen rather than shipped.
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