Kaplan Dark is a warm, yellow-accented theme for Visual Studio Code. Dark gray backgrounds, Kaplan yellow (#ffc640) UI accents and a calm, high-contrast syntax palette that keeps your code easy to read for hours. It comes in four variants: Dark, Muted, true-black OLED and Light.
Variants
| Theme |
Description |
| Kaplan Dark |
The original: dark gray background with vibrant yellow (#ffc640) accents throughout the UI. |
| Kaplan Dark Muted |
Same syntax colors, but neutral gray UI chrome so only your code is in color. |
| Kaplan OLED |
True black (#000000) background, perfect for OLED/AMOLED displays and dark rooms, with warm near-black popups. |
| Kaplan Light |
Warm paper background with amber syntax and the same yellow buttons, badges and selections. |
Kaplan Dark Muted
Kaplan OLED
Kaplan Light
Features
- Clean, warm syntax palette: gold keywords, lemon types, orange functions, mint strings, steel-blue constants on soft parchment text — with quiet punctuation so the code structure stands out.
- Readable comments (warm gray, WCAG ≥ 3.7:1) that stay out of the way.
- Themed bracket pair colorization, inlay hints, sticky scroll, diff/merge editor, terminal ANSI colors, testing and debug UI.
- Semantic highlighting that matches TextMate colors exactly, so code looks the same before and after the language server loads. Deprecated symbols are struck through.
Recommended settings
{
"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true,
"editor.guides.bracketPairs": "active",
"editor.stickyScroll.enabled": true
}
Installation
- Launch Visual Studio Code.
- Go to the Extensions view by clicking on the square icon in the left sidebar or by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+X.
- Search for "Kaplan Dark" and click on the "Install" button.
- Once installed, open the Command Palette (
Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P), run Preferences: Color Theme and pick Kaplan Dark, Kaplan Dark Muted, Kaplan OLED or Kaplan Light.
Feedback and Contributions
Your feedback is highly appreciated! If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvement, please feel free to open an issue here.
Contributions are also welcome! If you would like to contribute to the theme by adding new features or improving existing ones, please submit a pull request.
Development
All four themes are generated — don't edit themes/*.json by hand.
Run npm run build to regenerate the themes, then press F5 to try them in an Extension Development Host.
Credits
Kaplan Dark was created and is maintained by abyadando ♘.
Thank you for choosing the Kaplan Dark theme to make your coding experience shine brighter than a supernova! May your bugs be minor, your code be elegant, and your coffee always be strong. Keep calm and code on, my friend! Remember, if all else fails, blame it on the monkeys typing away on our keyboards. Happy coding and may the 
Kaplan's debugging force be with you!
