Paper Terminal — Codex app theme

Paper Terminal is our light-mode original, and it takes book typography as its brief instead of another white app window. The surface is a warm paper tone, the text a soft black mixed like ink rather than #000, and the accents are all print-shop colors — ochre, a green that could be a fountain pen, a teal that stays polite. Nothing fluoresces. The intended effect is a well-set page that happens to run commands.

Reading is where it earns the name. Agent work in daylight is mostly reading — plans, explanations, review notes — and the paper base cuts glare in bright rooms the way cream paperbacks beat glossy magazines in the sun. Code blocks sit on a slightly deeper paper tone so structure survives without borders, and the ochre accent marks your prompts the way a margin note would.

It shares its bones with the Paper Desk skin — same warm paper, same ochre accent — so the two run as a set when you want the whole analog-desk effect. Come sunset it hands over gracefully to any warm dark; Ember Shift is the house pairing, and Gruvbox Dark is the classic one.