Silicon Valley

A dark, minimal VS Code theme built for late-night coding. Black background. Sharp syntax. Zero distractions.

Java

C++

About

Silicon Valley is a dark VS Code theme designed around a simple idea:

Let the code be the interface.

The theme uses a near-terminal aesthetic with a pure black editor, restrained UI elements, and a carefully selected syntax palette. Specially, if you have seen the show Silicon Valley and love their editors

Comments are green. Keywords are magenta. Types are cyan. Strings are warm orange. Everything else stays clean and readable.

The goal isn't to make your editor colorful.

The goal is to make your code readable.

The Palette i chose

The palette is intentionally small.

Each color has a job.

Why "Silicon Valley"?

Because that's the feeling this theme is trying to capture.

Not the corporate part.

The show , the building-things-at-2-AM part.

A black screen, a terminal open somewhere, music in the background, and a stupidly ambitious project sitting in front of you.

That's Silicon Valley.

Features

• Pure black editor background
• Minimal dark UI
• Green comments
• Magenta keywords
• Cyan classes and types
• Warm orange strings
• Subtle number highlighting
• Semantic highlighting support
• Custom terminal colors
• Git status colors
• Custom error, warning and info colors
• Designed for long coding sessions
• Works across multiple programming languages

Languages

Silicon Valley is designed to work well with:

• Java
• C
• C++
• Python
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• HTML
• CSS
• JSON
• Markdown

The theme also uses semantic highlighting where supported, allowing VS Code to distinguish things such as:

• Classes
• Types
• Functions
• Methods
• Parameters
• Variables
• Properties
• Enums
• Namespaces

Installation

VS Code Marketplace

Search for:

Silicon Valley

in the VS Code Extensions panel.

Or open the Extensions view with:

⌘ + Shift + X

Search for Silicon Valley, then click Install.

After installation:

⌘ + K
⌘ + T

and select:

Silicon Valley

Development or To test locally

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/thearkabanerjee/silicon-valley-theme.git
cd silicon-valley-theme

Open it in VS Code:

code .

Press:

F5

VS Code will open an Extension Development Host with the theme loaded.

Make your changes, save the theme file, and reload the development window to see them.

Project Structure

silicon-valley/
├── themes/
│   └── silicon-valley-theme-color-theme.json
├── package.json
├── README.md
├── CHANGELOG.md
└── LICENSE

The main theme configuration lives in:

themes/silicon-valley-theme-color-theme.json

Design Philosophy

Silicon Valley follows three rules:

01 — Keep the background quiet

The editor stays black so that syntax highlighting has room to breathe.

02 — Give colors meaning

Colors aren't decoration.

They communicate structure.

03 — Don't fight the code

The UI should stay out of the way.

The code is the main character.

Contributing

Found something that doesn't look right?

Have an idea for improving the theme?

Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

When contributing, try to keep the core philosophy intact:

minimal, readable, intentional.

License

Silicon Valley is released under the MIT License.

See LICENSE for the full license text.

Built for developers who like their editors sleek.

Build. Ship. Repeat.