Clockwork Gold

A dark color theme for Ghostty, iTerm2, kitty, Zed, VS Code and Cursor. It descends from Monokai, sits on a warm near-black (#1d1c19), and uses clockwork.com's #FFCC00 for the cursor, accents and yellow.

Clockwork Gold palette

Ghostty

Copy the theme into Ghostty's theme folder and select it:

mkdir -p ~/.config/ghostty/themes
curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ClockworkNet/clockwork-gold/main/ghostty/Clockwork%20Gold" \
  -o ~/.config/ghostty/themes/"Clockwork Gold"

Then add theme = Clockwork Gold to ~/.config/ghostty/config.

iTerm2

Download iterm2/Clockwork Gold.itermcolors and double-click it to import. Then pick it under Settings > Profiles > Colors > Color Presets.

kitty

kitten themes --reload-in=all "Clockwork Gold"

That works once the theme is in kitty-themes. Until then, save kitty/Clockwork_Gold.conf as ~/.config/kitty/current-theme.conf and add include current-theme.conf to kitty.conf.

Clockwork Gold in kitty

Zed

Search for "Clockwork Gold" in the Extensions panel (zed: extensions), install it, and pick it with theme selector: toggle.

To install without the extension, copy zed/themes/clockwork-gold.json into ~/.config/zed/themes/.

VS Code and Cursor

Download the latest build and install it:

curl -fsSLO https://github.com/ClockworkNet/clockwork-gold/releases/latest/download/clockwork-gold.vsix && code --install-extension clockwork-gold.vsix

For Cursor, swap code for cursor. Then run Preferences: Color Theme and pick Clockwork Gold.

A GitHub Action builds the .vsix and attaches it to a release whenever vscode/ changes on main. To build it yourself, run pnpm dlx @vscode/vsce package in vscode/.

Clockwork Gold in VS Code

Palette

	Normal	Bright
Black	`#1d1c19`	`#4c4b47`
Red	`#e94b4a`	`#ff716b`
Green	`#73c881`	`#88e196`
Yellow	`#ffcc00`	`#c89f00`
Blue	`#4fa3f4`	`#76c0ff`
Magenta	`#ef3ead`	`#ff68c6`
Cyan	`#64c3c3`	`#82e1e0`
White	`#a9a69d`	`#fcfaf4`

Background #1d1c19, foreground #ebe8e0, selection #4c4b47.

License

MIT