Vedic Code Pro

A warm, low-strain color theme for VS Code — dark and light — built around a golden accent and calm, muted syntax colors. The goal was simple: something that stays comfortable to read for hours and looks good in both modes.

Previews

Vedic Dark

Vedic Light

Installation

1. Open Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X)
2. Search for Vedic Code Pro
3. Click Install
4. Open the theme picker (Ctrl+K Ctrl+T) and choose Vedic Dark or Vedic Light

What it aims for

• Readable in long sessions. Syntax colors sit in a calm mid-brightness range instead of vibrating against the background, and every code token meets WCAG AA contrast (4.5:1) against the editor background.
• A consistent palette. Colors are reused by role — one green for strings, one gold for functions, one purple for keywords — so the highlighting feels intentional rather than noisy.
• Matched dark and light. The same scopes map to the same roles in both themes, so switching modes doesn't feel like a different editor.
• Full editor coverage. Semantic highlighting, bracket-pair colors, git decorations, the terminal, the minimap, and diffs are all themed.

The palette

The accent is a warm golden amber (#FFB454) used for the cursor, active tab, and other focal points. Around it:

• Gold — functions and methods
• Green — strings
• Purple — keywords and imports
• Blue / cyan — types, classes, and constants
• Orange — parameters
• Muted red — errors and control flow

Language support

Tuned and tested across:

• Languages — JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Java, C / C++, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Swift
• Web — HTML, CSS / SCSS / Less, Markdown, JSON / YAML / TOML, SQL
• Frameworks — React (JSX / TSX), Vue, Svelte, Angular, Astro, Next.js

Other languages fall back to sensible TextMate scopes, so most files look right out of the box.

About the name

The theme borrows its palette from Vedic color associations — earthy golds, deep indigo, and calm greens. That's where the warmth and the golden accent come from; the rest is just an effort to make syntax highlighting that's easy on the eyes.

Contributing

Found a language that highlights oddly, or a color that's hard to read? Open an issue on GitHub with a screenshot — it helps a lot.

Credits

Made by Ansh Mittal · LinkedIn · Twitter

License

MIT — free for personal and commercial use.