diff --git a/demo/client.ts b/demo/client.ts
index 8bf783eb4d..d0d193e8be 100644
--- a/demo/client.ts
+++ b/demo/client.ts
@@ -99,6 +99,27 @@ const actionElements = {
 };
 const paddingElement = <HTMLInputElement>document.getElementById('padding');
 
+const xtermjsTheme = {
+  foreground: '#F8F8F8',
+  background: '#2D2E2C',
+  selection: '#5DA5D533',
+  black: '#1E1E1D',
+  brightBlack: '#262625',
+  red: '#CE5C5C',
+  brightRed: '#FF7272',
+  green: '#5BCC5B',
+  brightGreen: '#72FF72',
+  yellow: '#CCCC5B',
+  brightYellow: '#FFFF72',
+  blue: '#5D5DD3',
+  brightBlue: '#7279FF',
+  magenta: '#BC5ED1',
+  brightMagenta: '#E572FF',
+  cyan: '#5DA5D5',
+  brightCyan: '#72F0FF',
+  white: '#F8F8F8',
+  brightWhite: '#FFFFFF'
+};
 function setPadding(): void {
   term.element.style.padding = parseInt(paddingElement.value, 10).toString() + 'px';
   addons.fit.instance.fit();
@@ -175,7 +196,8 @@ function createTerminal(): void {
   term = new Terminal({
     allowTransparency: true,
     windowsMode: isWindows,
-    fontFamily: 'Fira Code, courier-new, courier, monospace'
+    fontFamily: 'Fira Code, courier-new, courier, monospace',
+    theme: xtermjsTheme
   } as ITerminalOptions);
 
   // Load addons
@@ -311,7 +333,7 @@ function initOptions(term: TerminalType): void {
     fontWeightBold: ['normal', 'bold', '100', '200', '300', '400', '500', '600', '700', '800', '900'],
     logLevel: ['debug', 'info', 'warn', 'error', 'off'],
     rendererType: ['dom', 'canvas'],
-    theme: ['default', 'sapphire', 'light'],
+    theme: ['default', 'xtermjs', 'sapphire', 'light'],
     wordSeparator: null
   };
   const options = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(term.options);
@@ -344,7 +366,8 @@ function initOptions(term: TerminalType): void {
   html += '</div><div class="option-group">';
   Object.keys(stringOptions).forEach(o => {
     if (stringOptions[o]) {
-      html += `<div class="option"><label>${o} <select id="opt-${o}">${stringOptions[o].map(v => `<option ${term.options[o] === v ? 'selected' : ''}>${v}</option>`).join('')}</select></label></div>`;
+      const selectedOption = o === 'theme' ? 'xtermjs' : term.options[o];
+      html += `<div class="option"><label>${o} <select id="opt-${o}">${stringOptions[o].map(v => `<option ${v === selectedOption ? 'selected' : ''}>${v}</option>`).join('')}</select></label></div>`;
     } else {
       html += `<div class="option"><label>${o} <input id="opt-${o}" type="text" value="${term.options[o]}"/></label></div>`;
     }
@@ -392,6 +415,9 @@ function initOptions(term: TerminalType): void {
           case 'default':
             value = undefined;
             break;
+          case 'xtermjs':
+            // Custom theme to match style of xterm.js logo
+            value = xtermjsTheme;
           case 'sapphire':
             // Color source: https://github.com/Tyriar/vscode-theme-sapphire
             value = {