Jacaranda Theme 🌸
A beautiful and vibrant VS Code theme inspired by the stunning purple blooms of the Jacaranda tree. This theme brings elegance and readability to your coding experience with carefully crafted colors that reduce eye strain while maintaining excellent syntax highlighting.
✨ Features
- Beautiful Color Palette: Inspired by nature's most stunning purple flowers
- Eye-friendly: Carefully selected colors to reduce eye strain during long coding sessions
- High Contrast: Excellent readability for all supported languages
- Consistent Syntax Highlighting: Unified color scheme across all file types
🎯 Language Support
Jacaranda Theme provides optimized syntax highlighting for:
- JavaScript & TypeScript - Modern web development
- Python - Data science and backend development
- C & C++ - System programming
- HTML & CSS - Web markup and styling
- Go - Modern backend development
- Java - Enterprise development
- React - Component-based UI development
- Astro - Modern web framework
- Prisma - Database toolkit
- Markdown - Documentation
- YAML & TOML - Configuration files
- JSON - Data interchange format
🚀 Coming Soon: More languages will be added in future updates based on community feedback!
🎨 Color Palette
Our carefully curated color palette combines vibrant purples with complementary accent colors:
🎨 Primary Purples 💜
Color Sample |
Name |
Hex |
⬤ |
Lavender Mist |
#dac7fc |
⬤ |
Soft Purple |
#ccb5ff |
⬤ |
Medium Purple |
#ae89ff |
⬤ |
Bright Magenta |
#e484fc |
🌸 Accent Colors ✨
Color Sample |
Name |
Hex |
⬤ |
Pink Purple |
#f0a6ff |
⬤ |
Light Pink |
#fdcaff |
⬤ |
Hot Pink |
#ff66a6 |
⬤ |
Electric Purple |
#ee80ff |
🌿 Supporting Colors 🍃
Color Sample |
Name |
Hex |
⬤ |
Peach |
#ffbba6 |
⬤ |
Coral |
#ff9494 |
⬤ |
Cream |
#ebce99 |
⬤ |
Mint Green |
#a1e2b7 |
⬤ |
Forest Green |
#5daf6f |
⬤ |
Sky Blue |
#7dc1d6 |
⬤ |
Periwinkle |
#94b9ff |
Color Usage
- Keywords & Control Flow: Primary purples for
if
, else
, function
, class
- Strings & Text: Warm peach and coral tones
- Comments: Soft greens for subtle visibility
- Variables: Sky blue and periwinkle for clarity
- Operators: Hot pink for visual distinction
📸 Screenshots
JavaScript/TypeScript
Screenshot placeholder - JavaScript syntax highlighting
Python
Screenshot placeholder - Python syntax highlighting
React/JSX
Screenshot placeholder - React component syntax highlighting
HTML/CSS
Screenshot placeholder - Web development syntax highlighting
Configuration Files (JSON/YAML)
Screenshot placeholder - Configuration file syntax highlighting
🚀 Installation
Via VS Code Marketplace
- Open VS Code
- Go to Extensions (
Ctrl+Shift+X
/ Cmd+Shift+X
)
- Search for "Jacaranda Theme"
- Click Install
- Go to
File > Preferences > Color Theme
and select "Jacaranda Theme"
Manual Installation
- Download the theme files
- Copy to your VS Code extensions folder:
- Windows:
%USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
- macOS:
~/.vscode/extensions
- Linux:
~/.vscode/extensions
- Restart VS Code
- Select the theme from Color Theme preferences
⚙️ Recommended Settings
For the best experience with Jacaranda Theme, consider these VS Code settings:
{
"editor.fontFamily": "JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Consolas",
"editor.fontSize": 14,
"editor.lineHeight": 1.6,
"editor.fontLigatures": true,
"editor.cursorBlinking": "smooth",
"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true
}
🐛 Issues & Feedback
Found a bug or have a suggestion? We'd love to hear from you!
🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions! Whether it's:
- Adding support for new languages
- Improving existing syntax highlighting
- Fixing color contrast issues
- Updating documentation
Please see our Contributing Guide for more details.
📋 Changelog
v1.0.0
- Initial release
- Support for 13 programming languages
- Complete color palette implementation
- Optimized syntax highlighting
📄 License
This theme is licensed under the MIT License.
💜 Inspiration
Named after the beautiful Jacaranda tree, known for its stunning purple blooms that create breathtaking natural canopies. Just like these magnificent trees bring beauty to landscapes, we hope this theme brings beauty and clarity to your code.
Enjoy coding with Jacaranda Theme! 🌸
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