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42KM color theme

42KM color theme

Andornaut

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A Marathon-inspired dark color theme
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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42KM theme for Visual Studio Code

A Marathon (video game) inspired dark color theme for Visual Studio Code.

Installation

  1. Install from the Extension Marketplace
    • Alternatively, press CTRL+p to open the "Quick Open" menu, and run the following command: ext install Andornaut.42km-theme
  2. Select: File > Preferences > Themes > Color Theme > 42KM

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Colors

UI

Color Hex Usage
#c2fe0b Lime Green #c2fe0b Primary accent — cursor, links, active line number, focus border, git modified
#4034c0 Blue-Purple #4034c0 Active tabs, breadcrumb background, editor selection
#7c48e2 Purple #7c48e2 Activity bar active, toolbar hover
#00f080 Bright Green #00f080 Find matches, git added, scrollbar active/hover, sash hover
#ff69b4 Hot Pink #ff69b4 Bracket match, match highlight borders, peek view border, debugging status bar
#4893c2 Steel Blue #4893c2 Title bar, info, git untracked
#ff5c00 Orange #ff5c00 Warnings, breakpoints
#c4071c Red #c4071c Errors, git deleted
#f1f1f1 Near White #f1f1f1 Foreground text
#c0c8cf Silver #c0c8cf Status bar, breadcrumb foreground, inactive tab foreground
#93ada0 Sage #93ada0 Activity bar, scrollbar background, sidebar header text
#687880 Slate #687880 Borders, git ignored
#545860 Dark Gray #545860 Inactive elements, gutter, tab headers, ruler, inactive tabs, status bar foreground
#404346 Charcoal Gray #404346 Hover backgrounds, panel
#353a3c Dark Teal #353a3c Editor background, sidebar
#282a2c Near Black #282a2c Inputs, lists, menus, line highlight, drop backgrounds, line numbers

Syntax

This color theme uses Solarized Dark tokenColors.

Color Hex Usage
#859900 Green #859900 Keywords, variable start, library class/type, diff inserted
#2AA198 Cyan #2AA198 Strings, markup inline
#268BD2 Blue #268BD2 Variables, functions, tags, headings, diff header
#6C71C4 Violet #6C71C4 Inherited class
#D33682 Magenta #D33682 Numbers, markup styling
#CB4B16 Orange #CB4B16 Class names, constants, exceptions, diff changed
#B58900 Yellow #B58900 Built-in constants, markup lists
#DC322F Red #DC322F Errors, regexp, invalid, diff deleted
#93A1A1 Light Gray #93A1A1 Storage, tag attributes
#839496 Base0 #839496 Default foreground
#586E75 Dark Gray #586E75 Comments, tag delimiters

Color swatches are generated by color-swatches-action.

Developing

Testing

  1. Press F5 to launch an Extension Development Host window.

Publishing

A Release workflow runs on every push to main and on version tags (v*). It packages the extension into a .vsix file and publishes it as a GitHub release.

To publish to the VS Code Marketplace:

  • Publishing extensions
  • Get a Personal Access Token — set Organization to All accessible organizations
  • Manage publishers and extensions
npm version patch  # or minor, major
git push && git push --tags
npx vsce login Andornaut
npx vsce publish

Guides

  • Extension guide: color theme
  • colorRegistry.ts — authoritative source for all valid theme color keys
  • Theme color documentation
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