Slatewave for LSD — Slatewave

~/Development/getslatewave ⎇ main ❯ lsd -la --git --tree --depth=2

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. - rw-r--r-- kevin.langleyjr staff 347 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 ├── .env.example

. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 384 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 ├── .git

! - rw-r--r-- kevin.langleyjr staff 316 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 │ ├── config

! - rw-r--r-- kevin.langleyjr staff 73 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:26 2026 │ ├── description

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. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 96 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 ├── docs

. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 96 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 │ └── roadmap

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. - rw-r--r-- kevin.langleyjr staff 871 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 ├── package.json

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. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 256 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 ├── public

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. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 288 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 ├── src

. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 224 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 │ ├── components

. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 128 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 │ ├── content

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. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 128 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 │ ├── layouts

. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 288 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 │ ├── lib

. d rwxr-xr-x kevin.langleyjr staff 320 B Mon Apr 27 00:09:29 2026 │ ├── pages

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~/Development/getslatewave ⎇ main ❯

About this theme

LSD splits its output into column roles — owner, permissions, size, date, git status, tree edges — and Slatewave recolors each so the row reads at a glance. Teal for read, amber for write, rose for exec; teal for fresh dates, slate for old; tree edges recede and filenames lead.

Slatewave for LSD recolors the column roles LSD already exposes — owner, group, permissions, size, date, git status, tree edges — so the row reads spatially: teal for read, amber for write, rose for exec; teal-300 for hour-old dates fading to slate-400 for older ones; slate for small files warming to amber for large.

File-type colors (directories, symlinks, archives, media) are driven by LS_COLORS, so Slatewave composes with whatever LS_COLORS generator you already use — vivid, trapd00r/LS_COLORS, or the default. The theme tunes against LSD 1.0+, which accepts #rrggbb hex alongside the legacy named colors and ANSI 256 indices.

Pair with a Nerd Font

Optional — set icons.theme to fancy in ~/.config/lsd/config.yaml for the icon glyphs. Falls back to unicode cleanly when no Nerd Font is installed.

Pair with LS_COLORS

Slatewave handles the column roles; LS_COLORS handles file-type colors. A common combination:

export LS_COLORS="$(vivid generate molokai)"

Install

Don't have the CLI yet? Install the Slatewave CLI →

Slatewave CLI

Install with the Slatewave family CLI — one command, every theme.
```
slatewave install lsd
```

curl

Drop colors.yaml into ~/.config/lsd/ without cloning. Requires LSD ≥ 1.0 (hex color support in colors.yaml).

mkdir -p ~/.config/lsd && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/lsd-slatewave/main/colors.yaml -o ~/.config/lsd/colors.yaml

Clone

Clone the repo and symlink colors.yaml into LSD's config directory.
1. git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/lsd-slatewave.git ~/.config/lsd-slatewave
2. mkdir -p ~/.config/lsd
3. ln -sf ~/.config/lsd-slatewave/colors.yaml ~/.config/lsd/colors.yaml
Activate

LSD only consults colors.yaml when told to use a custom theme — edit ~/.config/lsd/config.yaml.
1. Open or create ~/.config/lsd/config.yaml
2. Add: color.when set to auto
3. Add: color.theme set to custom
4. Run lsd -la --git --tree --depth 2 to verify

About this theme

Pair with a Nerd Font

Pair with LS_COLORS

Install

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