Nord
An arctic, north-bluish color palette. 16 colors organized into four groups (Polar Night, Snow Storm, Frost, Aurora), designed for clean, legible UIs and syntax highlighting in both light and dark ambiances.
16 swatches 16 light roles 16 dark roles
Swatches
nord0
#2E3440
Dark theme background; bright theme primary text
nord1
#3B4252
Dark theme elevated UI (status bars, panels, buttons)
nord2
#434C5E
Dark theme active line and selection highlighting
nord3
#4C566A
Dark theme indent guides and comments
nord4
#D8DEE9
Dark theme caret/variables; bright theme elevated UI
nord5
#E5E9F0
Dark theme subtle UI text; bright theme active line
nord6
#ECEFF4
Dark theme primary text; bright theme background
nord7
#8FBCBB
Classes, types, primitives; secondary accent
nord8
#88C0D0
Primary accent color; function declarations
nord9
#81A1C1
Keywords, operators, tags
nord10
#5E81AC
Pragmas, preprocessor; tertiary attention
nord11
#BF616A
Errors, Git deletions
nord12
#D08770
Annotations, decorators
nord13
#EBCB8B
Warnings, Git modifications, escape characters
nord14
#A3BE8C
Success states, strings, Git additions
nord15
#B48EAD
Uncommon functionality, numbers
Mode role mappings
Light mode (16 roles)
accent
→ nord8 annotation
→ nord12 background
→ nord6 error
→ nord11 info
→ nord10 primary
→ nord10 primary-hover
→ nord9 secondary-accent
→ nord7 special
→ nord15 success
→ nord14 surface
→ nord5 surface-elevated
→ nord4 text-primary
→ nord0 text-secondary
→ nord1 text-tertiary
→ nord3 warning
→ nord13 Dark mode (16 roles)
accent
→ nord8 annotation
→ nord12 background
→ nord0 error
→ nord11 info
→ nord10 primary
→ nord8 primary-hover
→ nord9 secondary-accent
→ nord7 special
→ nord15 success
→ nord14 surface
→ nord1 surface-elevated
→ nord2 text-primary
→ nord6 text-secondary
→ nord4 text-tertiary
→ nord3 warning
→ nord13 Provenance
- Source
- https://www.nordtheme.com/docs/colors-and-palettes
- License
MIT- Attribution
- Nord theme by Sven Greb (github.com/arcticicestudio/nord)
- Imported
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2026-05-15(upstream version 0.2.0)