A warm, low-glare theme for your favourite apps. Technical teams already spend 2,000+ hours a year facing harsh, blue-heavy screens — and with AI writing more and more, there's more to read than ever. Make every hour easier on your eyes.
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“I'm a builder and my tool is a computer. I refuse to trade my eyes for screens that shine far too bright to stare into all day. Mediterranea theme is for everyone who wants it all — more done, and eyes that still feel fine at night.”
Nothing to learn, nothing to tweak. Install the theme once and your screens stop working against you.
Your screens stop shining back at you. By mid-afternoon you notice it: no squinting, no tight forehead, no gritty eyes.
Every colour is clear at a glance and never harsh. Your eyes stop working overtime just to read the code.
Warmer light after dark, so a midnight bug hunt doesn't keep your head buzzing long after you close the laptop.
Every choice follows what eye-care research says about long days in front of a screen.
Optometrists call it digital eye strain: tired, dry, aching eyes after long screen days. Their advice is less glare, gentler contrast and warmer light. That's exactly what you get.
Working with AI turns your day into reading — diffs, chats, streams of generated code, all day long. A calm, low-glare screen keeps your eyes fresh for the part only you can do: deciding what ships.
Up to 90% of screen workers get digital eye strain. A 2024 Aston University study found that as it builds up, people complete fewer tasks — still accurate, just slower. So calmer eyes help you keep your pace.
A softer, paper-like contrast stays crisp without the strain — the difference between reading a book and staring into a lamp.
Cold, blue-heavy screens keep your head in daytime mode. Warmer evening light makes it easier to wind down once you finally close the laptop.
Colour blindness, light sensitivity, astigmatism, migraines, night shifts: dedicated presets so the colours work for your eyes, not a lab average.
Four small steps to the setting that feels right — then forget it's there.
Morning and Afternoon for daylight, Golden Hour and Dusk as the light turns warm, Evening and Midnight for the late hours.
Each time of day has steps: step 1 suits a bright room, and the higher the number, the dimmer the room it's made for. Screen still bright for the room? Go one step higher.
Lower the brightness until white stops glowing, and switch off Night Shift or Night Light — Mediterranea already does the warming.
Light sensitivity, migraines, astigmatism, colour blindness: each preset is tuned for one kind of eyes. Give any setting a full day before you judge it.
Mediterranea is a warm colour theme that gives your screen up to 58% less blue light and 50% less glare than a white page, with softer contrast — so long days of coding are easier on the eyes. One bundle covers 21 editors, terminals and apps, including VS Code, Cursor, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, Neovim, Xcode and Obsidian, with 54 comfort settings in Light and Dark. It is made by indiecrafts, a high-end web studio in the French Alps.
Mediterranea is designed for long coding sessions in VS Code and Cursor: up to 58% less blue light and 50% less glare than a white page, no harsh pure black-on-white contrast, and syntax colours that stay clear and easy to tell apart. Every setting passes WCAG contrast checks, and dark mode is tuned to read as clearly as light mode. It is a comfort tool, not a medical device.
Reduce glare, soften stark black-on-white contrast, use warmer light in the evening, and follow the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet (6 m) away for 20 seconds. Mediterranea handles the first three across your editor and terminal. Lower your screen brightness to match the room, and see an eye-care professional if discomfort continues.
Mediterranea brings the same lower-glare, warmer light to 21 apps, so your whole screen feels consistent. Editors: VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Android Studio), Xcode, Zed, Sublime Text, Vim and Neovim, plus Obsidian. Terminals and shell: iTerm2, macOS Terminal, Windows Terminal, Ghostty, Warp, WezTerm, Alacritty, kitty, tmux and zsh. Claude Code can use the terminal's colours through its ANSI themes.
Download the zip, run the Mediterranea installer once and paste the licence key from your receipt — the first run needs Node.js and an internet connection. It adds the themes to VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf and VSCodium, writes presets for your terminals and shell, and sets up the matching Monaspace font on macOS (with Homebrew). Obsidian, Vim, Neovim, Zed, JetBrains, Xcode, Visual Studio and Sublime each take one command, then an import in the app. Nothing switches on by itself — you pick the theme in each app, for example with Cmd+K Cmd+T in VS Code.
Each Mediterranea setting is named for the time of day it suits: Morning and Afternoon for bright daylight, Golden Hour and Dusk as the light turns warm, Evening and Midnight for late hours. Within each time of day, step 1 suits a bright room and higher numbers suit dimmer rooms, or a screen that is bright for its room — for example "Dusk 3 · Light". Every setting comes in Light and Dark.
Both. Every Mediterranea setting comes Framed — title bar, sidebar, tabs and status bar a shade darker than the editor — and Flat, with those bars in the editor’s colour. In VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium and Zed the installer asks which you want, or installs both; the flat ones end in “· Flat”. Other apps colour only the editor or terminal, so there’s nothing to choose.
No, Mediterranea does not switch on its own: you choose the setting that matches the light around you. VS Code and Cursor can switch between a light and a dark theme automatically with your system — turn on "Auto Detect Color Scheme" and pick a Mediterranea theme for each.
Yes — every Mediterranea setting comes in Dark too, with up to 46% less blue light and 32% less glare than a standard dark editor. The dark themes use warm charcoal instead of pure black, and are tuned with APCA, the contrast method proposed for WCAG 3, so they read as clearly as light mode rather than dimmer.
Mediterranea includes presets designed for specific needs: Deuteranopia & Protanopia (red-green colour blindness), Tritanopia (blue-yellow), Astigmatism, Migraine, Photophobia (light sensitivity), High Contrast, Dyslexia, Cataract and Late Shift for night work. The colour-blind presets are checked under colour-vision-deficiency simulation so code colours stay distinguishable.
No. Mediterranea keeps strings, numbers, keywords and functions distinct; what it removes is glare, not colour. All text and syntax colours pass WCAG contrast checks in every setting.
Yes. Mediterranea is a one-time purchase with a lifetime licence for personal use — no subscription, no renewal, nothing that expires. Your licence key activates it on up to 5 of your own computers, and once installed it keeps working offline.
No. There is no account and no sign-up: you check out, download, and install with the licence key from your receipt. To go back to your previous theme, pick it again in each app, or run the included uninstaller.
Mediterranea is a digital download, so sales are final once the download begins: at checkout you ask for immediate delivery and waive the 14-day withdrawal right. Your legal rights remain — if Mediterranea doesn't work as described, write to indiecrafts and it will be fixed or refunded. You can try every setting on this site before you buy.
Mediterranea takes its palette from Mediterranean light — warm evenings, sun-softened stone, olive groves and a calm sea — so its colours are named terracotta, olive, ochre, sea teal and fig. It was made by a designer who wanted that visual calm on screen during long coding days.
Calm, warm light from the first line of the day to the last.
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