Pitaya smoothie

✨ Comments and editor selection colours have been updated to meet WCAG AA standards.

A professional theme with hand-picked & bold colours for your VS Code editor and terminal. The theme is heavily inspired by the Pantone colour of the year 2018 and the Outrun aesthetics. However, colours are on the pastel side to help provide contrast and highlight what is essential. Color choices have taken into consideration what is accessible to people with colorblindness and in low-light circumstances.
A FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) project developed by Tania Allard.
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✨ If you wish to disable italics, there is now a no-italic theme available. You will have access to both; select Pitaya Smoothie No Italics as your colour theme.

Installation

Install Visual Studio Code
Open the extensions' sidebar on Visual Studio Code
Search for Pitaya Smoothie
Click Install to install it.
Click Reload to reload your editor.
Code/File ＞ Preferences ＞ Color Theme ＞ Pitaya Smoothie

Pitaya Smoothie Syntax Colours

Outrun aesthetics profoundly inspires this theme. The colour choices for the theme were made also taking into consideration accessibility for those users with colourblindness. By default, the theme is suitable for multiple types of colourblindness - no settings tweaking required.

The theme consists of a reasonably dark background and popping contrast colours. I also made decisions to allow for meaningful contrast for reading comprehension and optimal colour-popping ✨.

USAGE	COLOUR HEX CODE
Background	#181036
Foreground	#fefeff
Comment	#8786ac
Keyword	#f26196
String	#7998F2
Number	#f3907e
Built-in constant	#CAF884
Constant	#A267F5
Other	#66E9EC
Diff deleted	#FF6E9C
Diff inserted	#18c1c4
Diff changed	#ffe46b

UI elements colours

UI ELEMENT	HEX CODES
Activity bar background	#181036
Activity bar foreground	#7A76C2
Activity bar foreground	#181036
Sidebar background	#130C29
Sidebar section header background	#181036
Sidebar section header foreground	#7d79d1
Sidebar section header foreground	#18c0c4
Deletion highlights	#ff6e9c98
Addition highlights	#18c1c4a6
Modified highlights	#AD70FC46

Snapshots

Pitaya smoothie italics - Python code demo

✨ Using bracket-style colorizer 👆🏼✨

Pitaya smoothie italics - R code demo

Pitaya smoothie italics - React code

Pitaya smoothie italics - c++ code demo

Pitaya smoothie italics - HTML code demo

Accessibility

Colourblindness

Accessibility was kept close in mind when designing this theme. The colours were chosen such that they would be accessible to folks with colourblindness.

Pitaya Soothie colour palette - simulated for Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Tritanopia

Pitaya Smoothie italics - python code with Protanopia filter

Pitaya Smoothie italics - R code with Tritanopia filter

Colour contrast

Additionally, all the colours used in the theme are compliant with WCAG 2.1 standards.

Background Text	default foreground #FEFEFF	comments #8786AC	#F26196	#7998F2	#F3907E	#CAF884	#66E9EC	#B07AFC	diff-changed #FFE46B	diff-inserted #18C1C4	diff-deleted #FF6E9C
#181036	Text AAA 17.8	Text AA 5.1	Text AA 5.9	Text AA 6.5	Text AAA 7.8	Text AAA 14.8	Text AAA 12.3	Text AA 6	Text AAA 14.2	Text AAA 8.1	Text AA 6.8
selection and highlight #231458	Text AAA 15.8	Text AA 4.6	Text AA 5.2	Text AA 5.7	Text AA 6.9	Text AAA 13.1	Text AAA 11	Text AA 5.3	Text AAA 12.6	Text AAA 7.2	Text AA 6
AAA Pass, AAA (7+) AA Pass, AA (4.5+) AA18 Pass, Large Text Only (3+) DNP Does Not Pass About WCAG 2.0 contrast

Tania Allard