Warm Ink — A Home Assistant Theme

A warm, grounded Home Assistant theme built around earthy neutrals and a signature terra cotta accent. Inspired by the Anthropic / Claude color palette — designed to feel calm and deliberate rather than loud.

Available in both light and dark mode.

Preview

Screenshots

The Palette

Warm Ink draws its colors from a palette of warm grays, off-whites, and a burnt-orange terra cotta that runs through every active state, toggle, and accent in the UI. The sidebar and header intentionally share the same background as the main body, keeping the layout unified and distraction-free.

Name	Hex	Role
Cream	#faf9f5	Light mode background
Linen	#e8e6dc	Light mode secondary surface
Sand	#b0aea5	Muted icons and disabled states
Stone	#6b6960	Secondary text
Charcoal	#3a3936	Dark mode surface
Ink	#141413	Dark mode background
Terra	#d97757	Primary accent — active states, toggles, highlights
Sky	#6a9bcc	Accent blue — cool states, info
Fern	#788c5d	Success and nature states

Installation

Via HACS (recommended)

Requires HACS to be installed in your Home Assistant instance.

Option A — HACS Store (once listed)

1. Go to HACS → Frontend.
2. Search for Warm Ink and click Download.
3. Follow steps 5–6 above.

Option B — Custom Repository

1. In Home Assistant, open HACS from the sidebar.
2. Click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner and select Custom repositories.
3. Enter the repository URL, set the type to Theme, and click Add.
4. Search for Warm Ink in HACS and click Download.
5. Reload themes: go to Developer Tools → Actions, search for frontend.reload_themes, and run it.
6. Open your Profile settings, under User preferences, select Warm Ink from the Theme dropdown.

Manual Installation

1. Add the following to your configuration.yaml (a restart is required if this is your first theme):

   frontend:
     themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes/

2. Create a themes/ folder inside your Home Assistant config directory if it doesn't already exist.

3. Download warm_ink.yaml from the latest release and place it in that folder.

4. Reload themes: Developer Tools → Actions → frontend.reload_themes.

5. Open your Profile settings, under User preferences, select Warm Ink from the Theme dropdown.

Light & Dark Mode

Warm Ink ships as a single file with both modes defined. Home Assistant will automatically offer both variants on the profile page. The active mode follows your browser or OS preference by default, or you can pin it manually from your profile.

License

MIT — free to use, adapt, and share.