GitHub Light — Claude Code theme
light✓ token theme · safePull-request white — the most battle-tested light palette on the internet.
palette by GitHub (Primer) · MIT · upstream source ↗
Color tokens
Background
#ffffff
Panel / sidebar
#f6f8fa
Code background
#f6f8fa
Border
#d0d7de
Text
#24292f
Muted text
#6e7781
Accent
#0969da
Strings / added
#0a3069
Keywords
#cf222e
Functions
#8250df
Comments
#6e7781
Errors / removed
#cf222e
Warnings
#9a6700
Notes on this palette
This is the most battle-tested light palette on the internet, full stop. It's what github.com looks like by default, which means every open-source maintainer and most working developers have logged thousands of hours against exactly these grays, this blue, this red/green diff pair. Primer's team iterates it against accessibility contrast targets on real product surfaces — more QA than almost any standalone theme ever receives.
As an agent theme it's the pragmatist's pick for daylight. Pure white base, near-black text, accents chosen to survive small sizes and mediocre monitors — screenshares and projector demos stay readable where moodier light themes wash out. Diffs, again, are the native tongue: green means added-that, red means removed-that, no acclimatization needed. It's also the theme least likely to look strange in a screenshot pasted into an issue or a work chat.
Similar looks
Daylight Catppuccin — soft pastels that stay readable on a bright desk.
Warm parchment, cool science — the light mode that started light modes.
Gruvbox in daylight — cream paper, ink that still has groove.
Ink on warm paper — a light theme that reads like a well-set book.