Themery

What is Themery?

Themery is an IDE theme builder that helps you create color themes with AI, including fine-tuning for syntax highlighting and typography. It’s designed for developers who want a consistent look across editors and want the resulting theme to be based on perceptually engineered color values.

The page emphasizes that Themery uses OKLCH colors and APCA contrast scoring, and it can export themes to multiple editors so you can use the same theme across your workflow.

Key Features

• AI-assisted theme building: use AI to help generate and refine an IDE theme instead of starting from scratch.
• OKLCH-based color handling: themes are presented as perceptually uniform OKLCH colors to support more consistent visual output.
• APCA contrast scoring: the theme workflow includes contrast accessibility scoring using APCA.
• Syntax highlighting and typography fine-tuning: adjust how code elements are colored and how type is handled in the theme.
• Export to multiple editors: publish a theme to several environments, including VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Helix, and Zed (listed on the site).

How to Use Themery

1. Start building a theme in Themery and use the editor tooling to adjust colors, syntax highlighting, and typography.
2. Review contrast/accessibility scoring based on APCA to guide color choices.
3. When the theme looks right, publish/export it in one click to the editors you use (from the set of editors listed on the site).

Use Cases

• Create a single theme for multiple coding environments: build once in Themery and then export the same theme to VS Code, JetBrains, and terminal-focused editors like Neovim/Helix.
• Improve readability by iterating on contrast: use the APCA contrast scoring to adjust colors for code readability during theme refinement.
• Standardize team/editor appearance: if a team uses several IDEs, export ensures they can align on the same theme styling across tools.
• Tune typography and highlighting for a preferred look: adjust syntax highlighting and typography so code structure is easier to scan in daily use.
• Develop and refine themes with a perceptual color model: rely on OKLCH-based colors to keep the theme consistent as you make changes.

FAQ

• Which editors does Themery support for export? The site lists export/publishing to VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Helix, and Zed, and also mentions “and more.”

• Does Themery use a specific color system? Yes. The page states that it uses OKLCH for perceptually uniform colors.

• How does Themery evaluate text/background contrast? It includes APCA contrast accessibility scoring.

• What can I customize in a theme? The page mentions fine-tuning colors, syntax highlighting, and typography.

Alternatives

• IDE-specific theme editors: tools that focus on configuring themes within a single IDE, typically requiring separate work to match styling across editors.
• Theme generators for a specific editor (e.g., VS Code-only): start from templates or schemes and export only to that editor’s format rather than publishing to multiple editors.
• General-purpose color palette/design tools: you can design colors with perceptual models, then manually map them to editor highlight groups, which is usually more manual than an IDE-focused workflow.
• Terminal/Neovim theme tooling: if your workflow is mostly terminal-based, dedicated Neovim/Helix theming tools may fit better, though they may not provide a unified multi-editor workflow.