Synthwave Neon Dark — macOS Terminal

A synthwave-inspired neon dark theme for macOS Terminal.app and Starship prompt.

Companion to synthwave-theme for Zed — same colors, same vibe.

Features

• Minimal neon prompt: purple (directory), cyan (git), gray (context), red (errors)
• Default Starship git status indicators with cyan accent
• Git state detection (REBASING, MERGING, CHERRY-PICKING)
• 30+ language/runtime/framework modules with auto-detection
• Python virtualenv display, cloud provider context (AWS, GCP), sudo/SSH warnings
• 16 ANSI colors tuned for synthwave aesthetic
• 95% background opacity with full blur (frosted glass)
• JetBrains Mono Nerd Font for monospace rendering
• 1.1x line height for comfortable reading
• Git identity greeting on terminal open
• zsh-autosuggestions and syntax highlighting support

Prompt colors

Element	Color	Hex
Directory	Purple	#e08fff
Git branch & status	Cyan	#00fff5
Right-side context	Gray	#9595a8
Errors & sudo	Red	#ff4466
Default text	Lavender white	#eee9f5

ANSI colors

Color	Normal	Bright
Black	#262040	#6a6490
Red	#ff4466	#ff7888
Green	#5cffaa	#90ffc0
Yellow	#ffd580	#ffe8a0
Blue	#c89fff	#ddb4ff
Magenta	#ff6eb4	#ff9ed0
Cyan	#00fff5	#70fffa
White	#eee9f5	#ffffff

Background: #14101f (95% opacity) · Foreground: #eee9f5 · Cursor: #b49fd0

Install

1. Install JetBrains Mono Nerd Font

The terminal profile and Starship prompt require JetBrains Mono Nerd Font for prompt icons and dev symbols.

brew install --cask font-jetbrains-mono-nerd-font

Or download manually from nerdfonts.com and install the .ttf files.

2. Terminal.app

1. Download Synthwave-Neon-Dark.terminal
2. Double-click the file to import it
3. Open Terminal > Settings > Profiles
4. Select Synthwave Neon Dark and click Default

The profile includes JetBrains Mono Nerd Font 13pt, 95% opacity with full blur (frosted glass), and 1.1x line height. You can adjust these in Terminal > Settings > Profiles > Window/Text.

3. Starship prompt

The Starship config creates a neon-colored prompt with git info on the left and language/framework versions on the right.

Copy starship.toml to your Starship config:

cp starship.toml ~/.config/starship.toml

The config uses a named palette, so you can tweak all colors from one place:

[palettes.synthwave]
purple = "#e08fff"
cyan = "#00fff5"
red = "#ff4466"
gray = "#9595a8"
fg = "#eee9f5"

Shell extras (optional)

Add these to your ~/.zshrc for a git identity greeting and zsh plugins:

# Git identity greeting (once per terminal)
_name=$(git config --global user.name 2>/dev/null)
_email=$(git config --global user.email 2>/dev/null)
[[ -n "$_name" ]] && printf '\e[38;2;238;233;245m\uf09b %s <%s>\e[0m\n' "$_name" "$_email"
unset _name _email

# zsh plugins (install: brew install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting)
source /opt/homebrew/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
source /opt/homebrew/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

Related

• synthwave-theme — Synthwave Neon for Zed