A pleasant-looking low contrast dark theme for VSCode with handpicked semantic highlighting colors. No fancy color theories behind, but personal perception.
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Due to my visual peculiarities, I couldn't find a suitable theme for me.
On light colored themes, all the floaters in my eyes become really annoying:
Simulated floaters
Dark ones are too contrasty and give a ghosting and a halo effects:
Simulated ghosting
And also all the themes I tried were not informative enough and mottled with borders, hovers and unnecessary highlighting. So I decided to make a customized theme for myself:
Simulated floaters and halos
Fonts
- Editor —
Cascadia Code - Terminal, ErrorLens —
Jetbrains Mono
Icons
- ACE Util — Utility library to handle Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) files.
- Eppz! Theme — Styling ideas and color palette reference.
- Semantic Rainbow Theme — Used as a starting point.
- Horizon Dark Theme — Semantic Rainbow started as an extension of this theme and it remains an influence especially in the non-syntax parts.
- TinyColor — Used for color transformations.