Cattleya (kăt′lē-ə)

Cattleya (formerly orchid) is a theme for nova that aims to be one you can look at all day. It's contrasty, it's fun, it uses syntax grammars to their fullest (mostly JS and TS since that's what I spend the most time looking at). Note: I'm new Nova and this extension is still a work-in-progress.

Acknowledgements

This is based on prior work for Sublime Text and, before that, VS Code by me.

What's in a name?

Years ago I created a theme for Adobe's Brackets editor called "orchid". The name was inspired by a gorgeous purple color used prominently within the theme (#DA70D6, aka "orchid"). Since then, as I've moved to other code editors, I've adapted and improved on this theme for whichever editor I'm using at any given moment. I hadn't really given the name much thought since I originally created it. As I'm now working on bringing this theme to nova I'm now considering the name again, and I've landed on "cattleya" because it's an evocative name which harkens back to the original, cattleya being a genus within the orchid family.

Version 1.2

• Light mode: Slightly changed the window background color so that highlighted but inactive files are more visible
• Light mode: Change the background for highlighted text to a pleasant green to differentiate from the highlighting in the git diff editor
• Dark mode: Change the background for highlighted text to a pleasant green to differentiate from the highlighting in the git diff editor

Version 1.1

Added a light mode theme. This is a work in progress. No significant changes were made to the original theme, which is now called Cattleya Dark.

Version 1.0

Initial release